Thacker, Jan

Jan Thacker is a longtime Alaskan journalist, author, and columnist with 25 years of weekly columns (mostly humor) under her belt. A fourth generation Whitefish, Montanan, in 1975 she and her husband, Troy, packed up their prized possessions (the kids and the new console color TV) and drove to Alaska where they spent eight years in the bush and many years in North Pole. She and Troy currently live in Wasilla where she devotes her time to her writing ministry and cheerleading her daughters, grandchildren, and two great-grandbabies.;