Find A Grave - Anchorage Borough

Bondsteel, James Leroy b. July 18, 1947 d. April 9, 1987
Vietnam War Congressional Medal Of Honor Recipient. Served as a Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company A, 2d Battalion, 2d Infantry, 1st Infantry Division. Citation reads:For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. S/Sgt. Bondsteel distinguished himself while serving as a platoon sergeant with Company A, near the village of Lang Sau. Company A was directed to assist a friendly unit which was endangered by intense fire from a North...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Fort Richardson National Cemetery, Fort Richardson, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, USA
Plot: H-19
Dimond, Anthony Joseph b. November 30, 1881 d. May 28, 1953
US Congressman. Served as a Member of the Alaska Territorial Senate from 1923 to 1926, 1929 to 1932, Delegate to the United States Congress from Alaska Territory from 1933 to 1945, Delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Alaska Territory, in 1936, and 1940, and District Judge from 1945 to 1953. (Bio by: K)
Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, USA
Hickel, Walter Joseph 'Wally' b. August 18, 1919 d. May 7, 2010
Presidential Cabinet Secretary, Alaska Governor. He served as the 2nd and 8th Governor of Alaska and was United States Secretary of the Interior (1969 to 1970) during the administration of President Richard Nixon. A versatile athlete at Chaflin High School in Chaflin, Kansas, he excelled in football, track and boxing, and became the state's 1938 Welterweight Golden Gloves Champion. Two years later he moved to the Alaska...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, USA
Johnson, Ada Blackjack b. May 10, 1898 d. May 29, 1983
American Explorer. The press dubbed her "the Heroine of Wrangel Island," after her rescue from the desolate artic island on August 23, 1923. An Inuit woman from the village of Solomon, just outside of Nome, Alaska, Ada was a widow with a small child and in desperate need of money when she agreed to be the seamstress for an expedition of four explorers to Wrangel Island, located 87 miles off the coast of Siberia. The island is so far north that it only receives sunlight during the months of...[Read More] (Bio by: Lisa S)
Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, USA
Jones, Marie Smith b. May 14, 1918 d. January 21, 2008
Native Eyak Chief. She was the last full-blooded Eyak Indian and last Native speaker of the Eyak language. Born Udach' Kuqax*a'a'ch which means "a sound that calls people from afar", she was made honorary chief of the Eyak Nation, in the 1990s. The Eyak ancestral homeland runs along 300 miles of the Gulf of Alaska from Prince William Sound and by the 21st century only about 50 Eyaks remained. Well known as an activist for Alaska Indian rights, she spoke at United Nations conferences on...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Angelus Memorial Park, Anchorage, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, USA
Laurence, Sydney Mortimer b. October 14, 1865 d. September 12, 1940
Artist. Fames for painting and photographing the Alaskan wilderness. Struggling and needing money, he decided in 1904, at the age of 38, to try the hard life of a pioneer prospector and joined the crowd seeking gold and riches in Valdez, Alaska. He painted little in his first years in the territory, instead prospected for gold in summers and worked as a photographer in the winter. Between 1911 and 1914 he began to focus once again on his art. He moved from Valdez to the budding town of...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul S.)
Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, USA
Plot: Tract 10, Row 16, Lot 6
Pollock, Howard Wallace b. April 11, 1920 d. January 9, 2011
US Congressman. A member of the Republican Party, he served the state of Alaska in the US House of Representatives from 1967 to 1971. Pollock attended the University of Santa Clara (California) to pursue a career in law; his studies were interrupted while he served in the US Navy during World War II and attained the rank of lieutenant commander (he lost his right arm in a grenade explosion). Following the war, he moved to Alaska and attained his law degree from the University of Houston School...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, USA
Rasmuson, Col. Mary Louise b. April 11, 1911 d. July 30, 2012
Military Pioneer. A founding member of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II, she rose to become its director then began a second long life as a respected Alaska philanthropist. Raised in Pittsburgh, she graduated from Margaret Morrison Carnegie College and from the University of Pittsburgh and was working as an assistant school principal at the onset of World War II. Desiring to aid the war effort she joined what was then the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps and was initially placed in...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, USA
Roosevelt, Kermit b. October 10, 1889 d. June 4, 1943
Explorer, Soldier, Businessman, and Author. He was the second child of former President Theodore Roosevelt and his second wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. After attending an Episcopalian college preparatory school, Groton, in Groton, Massachusetts, he completed a four year course at Harvard in two and a half years. After his freshman year he accompanied his father on a safari to Africa. In 1913 to1914 he accompanied his father on an expedition to South America to explore the River of Doubt...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Cause of death: Suicide
Fort Richardson National Cemetery, Fort Richardson, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, USA

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