Longtime Alaskan Bob Penney, a sportfishing activist and real estate developer who had close ties with some of the state’s most prominent politicians, died Tuesday at the age of 90.
real estate brokerage company in Anchorage, but his lifelong passion was protecting the Kenai River to ensure it would host salmon for future generations, friends and family said.
His son, Henry Penney, said in an interview Wednesday that his father passed away in Indian Wells, California. Penney lived there with his wife, Jeannie, in winter, when they weren’t at their summer home along the river in Soldotna, Henry Penney said.Penney in the 1980s founded the Kenai River Sportfishing Association, which hosted a sportfishing classic that raised money for fish habitat and drew members of Congress, corporate executives and other VIPs to Alaska each summer.
“Today Alaska lost a strong civic leader, the Kenai River lost a fierce protector, and my family and I lost a dear friend as Bob Penney passed after 90 years of a life well lived,” Murkowski said inMurkowski said Penney helped create the Resource Development Council, an industry advocacy group, and the Mayor’s Charity Ball.of Penney on social media on Tuesday, saying, “Penney brought energy, passion and determination to everything he did.
Penney was born in Oregon shortly after the start of the Great Depression, his family said. He moved to Alaska in 1951 to manage a lumberyard in Anchorage and later sold trailers for a private company.
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