ANCHORAGE, AK (June 21, 2013) – A service for Isabelle (Hill) Toots, wife of Evangelical Covenant Church pastor Nathan Toots, will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at First Covenant Church. She died June 17.
Toots, 72, was born July 22, 1940. She married Nathan Toots on March 4, 1980.
Isabelle ministered alongside her husband in multiple churches and as he served as the associate director of the Evangelical Covenant Church of Alaska.
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