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Three losses southwest Mississippi could ill afford. Remembering contributions of recently deceased Mississippians.

Scott Gagne, 57, a true Alaskan at heart, passed away on Feb. 5, 2021, after the snowcat, a tracked vehicle, he was operating broke through the lake ice on Hewitt Lake, Alaska. Taking one last adventure on this earth in a machine that fueled his passion and in an area that embraced his heart and soul as home, Skwentna, Alaska, is when he was called to higher grounds to begin a new life. Scott was born on Jan. 26, 1964 to Frederick and Lorraine Gagne in Dummer, N.H. From a young age, he had a hunger for Alaska, and it was always a dream of his to live in the outdoors surrounded by nature...