It was replaced by a script developed by a group of native Yup'ik speakers and linguists at the University of Alaska. John Henry Kilbuck died in 1922 in Akiak, Alaska. Edith died in 1933. Legacy and honors The Kilbuck Family Scholarship for Native Americans is awarded annually to a Native American college student from Alaska or Oregon. The diaries and letters of John and Edith Kilbuck provide much information otherwise unavailable about Yup'ik life in the late 19th century. The book, The Real People and the Children of Thunder by Ann Fienup-Riordan, is about their ministry and the Yup'ik. The Kilbuck Mountain range and the Kilbuck Elementary School in Bethel, Alaska, were named for them. References American Protestant missionaries Female Christian missionaries American people of the Moravian Church History of the Alaska Province of the Moravian Church Lenape people of the Moravian Church Married couples Moravian Church missionaries People from Bethel, Alaska People from Franklin County, Kansas Religious leaders from Alaska Christian missionaries in Alaska Protestant missionaries in the United States American people of Lenni Lenape descent