On April 29, 59-year-old Nicky Myers of Pilot Station fell through the ice on the Yukon River on his snowmachine and died. Myers was a mayor, a deacon, a grandfather, a husband and a firefighter.
Myers set out on the Yukon River from Pilot Station to St. Mary’s by snowmachine on the afternoon of April 26. His son, 30-year-old Nikiefer Myers, had just landed after a vacation. Nikiefer thought a friend was going to pick him up, but instead it was his dad.The two headed upriver towards Pilot Station for what is normally about a 40-minute snowmachine ride. His dad told him that the ride downriver had been good. But by evening on the way back, it started to get bumpy.
“His eyes were closed. He wasn’t moving. I still stayed there for a little bit with him. And in my head I heard another time, ‘You gotta go, you gotta go, you gotta go without me.’ I really didn’t wanna leave,” Nikiefer said. “We had a real good childhood. It was fun. We didn’t have much toys. But we had food, we had shelter, clothes, we had each other. We lived a subsistence lifestyle. We would go out with our parents, or fishing or berry picking, logging,” Wassillie Myers said.Nicky Myers, pictured third from the left in the middle row, fought wildfires for more than three decades.
“I don’t know how he asked me out. We knew each others as we grew up. Just kind of happened. Yeah,” said Judy.Judy said that life with Myers was a happy one. He was a good husband and father. He played lots of other roles in the community, too. He served as the mayor of Pilot Station on and off for years. He was mayor when he died.
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