Kenai Peninsula Borough AK Archives Cemetery ..... Bear Cove Cemetery is located in Kachemak Bay, Alaska ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ak/akfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: The Kenai Totem Tracers Genealogy Society ************************************************ BEAR COVE Kachemak Bay, Alaska Bear Cove John Paul Cooper Nov 14, 1930 - Jul 31, 1999 Always remembered with love (Ashes are buried on the Cooper cabin homesite) John A. Pate L Cpl US Marine Corps World War I Jun 19, 1911 – Mar 6, 1980 (Ashes are buried on the Pate cabin homesite) Pedersen Island in Bear Cove Theodore Pedersen Son of Christian Theodore Pedersen And Mosha Diakanoff Pedersen Feb 25, 1905 – Aug 15, 1990 Teddy, mayor of Bear Cove. Captain of the White Whale "It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder It's the stillness that fills me with peace." Robert Service (The plaque is on a white Russian Orthodox Cross. At the base of the cross is a box filled with feathers, cones, shells, and other items.) Clarke Walter Sparks Sep 20, 1970 - Jan 12, 2001 (No name on cross. Only an eight by ten picture of a young man hanging on a large white Latin cross who appears to be in his twenties. Identified by Susan Jackson. Listed at the Homer Seafarer's Memorial Clarke W. Sparks F/V Canyon Enterprise Jan 12, 2001 and on memorial bricks as Clarke Walter Sparks born Sep 20, 1970 died Jan 12, 2001)