Find A Grave - Alaska

Bartlett, Edward Lewis b. April 20, 1904 d. December 11, 1968
US Senator. Elected as a Senator from Alaska to the United States Senate, serving from 1959 until his death in office in 1968. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
Northern Lights Memorial Cemetery, Fairbanks, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, USA
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
Brady, John Green b. May 25, 1848 d. December 17, 1918
Alaska Territorial Governor. A graduate of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1874 and Union Theological Seminary in New York City, New York in 1877, he served three terms as Territorial Governor of Alaska, from 1897 to 1906. As governor, he pursued Native Alaskan civil rights. He was forced to resign in 1906 due to his alleged involvement with the Reynolds-Alaska Development Company, but was later exonerated. (Bio by: Mr. Denardo)
Sitka National Cemetery, Sitka, Sitka Borough, Alaska, USA
Plot: H-4
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
Juneau, Joe b. 1836 d. 1899
Joe Juneau was a Canadian miner and prospector and co-founder, with Richard Harris, of Juneau. Along with Harris, his partner, and guided by Chief Kowee, Juneau made Alaska's first major gold discovery around 1880 and helped the city of Juneau (originally named Harrisburg) become the hard rock gold capital of the world. The city, re-named for Joe Juneau, has been the center of government in Alaska since 1906. Juneau continued his travels on to Dawson, Yukon Territory, during the Klondike...[Read More] (Bio by: Stew Thornley)
Evergreen Cemetery, Juneau, Juneau Borough, Alaska, USA
Plot: Right side of walking path, in from Martin Road
Kelly, Leon (W B Pruitt) b. September 24, 1925 d. April 26, 1991
Musician. He was a reknown steel guitarist who played with Arkie Shibley and his "Mountain Dew Boys" (1950 hit "Hot Rod Race"), and had his own hit singles "Rockaway" and "You Put My Heart In Orbit" 1959. He is considered to be among the Founding Fathers of Rockabilly music, and was a two-time recipient of the Purple Heart in World War II.
Sitka National Cemetery, Sitka, Sitka 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
Marly, Anna b. October 30, 1917 d. February 16, 2006
Russian-French Singer and WWII Resistance figure.
Palmer Pioneer Cemetery, Palmer, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, USA
O'Hearn, Eileen b. November 8, 1913 d. September 22, 1992
Eileen O'Hearn was originally a pianist. She turned Film Star in Hollywood. She made ten Films in Hollywood. (Bio by: Rudi Polt)
Kodiak Cemetery, Kodiak, Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, USA
Paddock, Charles William b. August 11, 1900 d. July 21, 1943
Olympic Athlete. Born in Gainesville, Texas, he was a champion sprinter and was the first one dubbed "The fastest man alive". At the 1920 Olympic Summer Games Antwerp, he won the Gold Medal in the 100M dash, Gold Medal in the 4x100 relay and a Silver Medal in the 200M dash. He set the World's record in the 100M and 200M dash in 1921 and at the 1924 Olympic Summer Games Paris, he won the Gold Medal in the 200M. When World War II broke out in 1941, he joined the U S Marine Corps and became a...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cause of death: Military plane crash
Sitka National Cemetery, Sitka, Sitka Borough, Alaska, USA
Page, Dorothy G. d. November 16, 1989
Sports Figure. Considered to be the "Mother of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race", she inspired the 1049 mile race from Anchorage to Nome. She was the Honorary Musher for Iditarod 25, and was a 4 term Wasilla City Councilwoman and 2 term Mayor of Wasilla (1986 to 1987). (Bio by: Bill Fikes Jr)
Aurora Wasilla Cemetery, Wasilla, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, USA
Plot: in the north center of the old part
Parks, George Alexander b. May 29, 1883 d. May 11, 1984
Alaska Territorial Governor. He graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1906 and worked as a mining engineer in the western United States, Canada, Mexico and Canada before settling in Alaska in 1907. From 1908 to 1926 he served in several federal government positions, including Mineral Examiner, Head of the United States Land Office, and Assistant Supervisor of Public Lands Surveys. He served as an United States Army Engineer officer during World War I. In 1925 he was appointed Governor...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Evergreen Cemetery, Juneau, Juneau Borough, Alaska, USA
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
Post, Wiley [cenotaph] b. November 22, 1898 d. August 15, 1935
Pioneer Aviator. He began his career in the early 1920s as a barnstormer pilot, often performing as a parachute jumper. He lost an eye, but learned to fly in spite of that handicap, and was always seen with his distinctive black eye patch. He gained fame as an aerial racer in the early 1930s, winning the Bendix Trophy while flying in his signature airplane "Winne Mae". He twice completed a single plane round-the-world flight (in 1931, he did it in 8 days, 16 hours, in 1933 he bettered his mark...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Will Rogers-Wiley Post Memorial, Barrow, North Slope 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
Red Rock, Princess Wah Nese b. 1913 d. 1988
Singer, Actress. She was the daughter of the last chief of the Ojibway Totem Tribe of Canada. She appeared in the movie "The Last of the Mohicans". She also performed professionally as a soprano with the Saint Louis Opera Company. In 1944 she sang at the White House for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration. (Bio by: Mr. Denardo)
Valley Memorial Park, Palmer, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, USA
Rogers, Will [cenotaph] b. November 4, 1879 d. August 15, 1935
Humorist, Actor, Author. Born William Penn Adair Rogers the youngest of eight in Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory which would later be known as Oologah, Oklahoma to Mary America Scrimsher and Clem Rogers, a successful rancher. As a boy, he was taught the lariat by a former slave and became an expert rider and roper. He would later star in wild west shows and vaudeville around the world on the strengths learned on his father's ranch. He dropped out of school in the tenth grade and would always...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Cause of death: Plane Crash
Will Rogers-Wiley Post Memorial, Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska, USA

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