Beata Rose “Bea” Alexandrovich, nee Pitzel (1923 – 2006)
Bea Alexandrovich was born in Pitzel, Saskatchewan to Leo and Mary Pitzel. She was one of seven children and she spend her early years on the family farm. She took her nursing degree after the Second World War and worked in several hospitals in the south. She came to the Yukon in the late 1940s to nurse in the Dawson hospital. There she met and married Peter Alexandrovich. They moved their family to Whitehorse in 1956 where they raised their family: Arlene, Mark, Sheila, Paul, David, and Linda. Bea was a nurse at Whitehorse General Hospital, ran a mail delivery route and managed a tourist trailer park. She moved to Carcross in the mid-1980s and was active in the Catholic Mission, enjoyed fishing, skiing and the outdoors. She lived there until 2002, when she moved back to Whitehorse.1)