Neva Egan

Desdia Neva Egan was an American educator who served as the first First Lady of Alaska from the states creation in 1959 to 1966, and again from 1970 to 1974. Egan was the wife of the state of Alaskas first governor, William Allen Egan, and the mother of former Juneau Mayor and Alaska State Senator Dennis Egan.

Egan was born Desdia Neva McKittrick on October 3, 1914, in Wilson, Kansas. She was the third of five children born to Joseph Leland McKittrick and Martha Desdia Alderson McKittrick. McKittrick worked at her familys grocery store to earn the tuition money to attend Kansas State College. She then transferred to the University of Wyoming, where her aunt was a faculty member, in Laramie, Wyoming.

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