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COOPER LANDING CEMETERY
Cooper Landing, Alaska

The Cooper Landing Cemetery is located on Bean Creek Road in Cooper Landing, Kenai
Peninsula Borough, Alaska. At mile 47.8 of the Sterling Highway turn on Bean Creek Road. Go
1.3 miles and turn right at the cemetery sign and parking lot. The graves are randomly scattered
throughout the site. The cemetery is owned by the Cooper Landing Community Club. The
cemetery was last read on November 4, 2003.


1. George B. Nelson
US Marine Corps
World War I
1889 - 1980
2. James Denny Thompson
(Unmarked grave identified in
cemetery records. Died 1975 )
Betty Jean Thompson
1925 - 1968
3. Robin Holben
1940 - 1977
4. James W. Holben
Aug 15, 1934 - Sep 14, 1979
5. Lani Lancaster
May 16, 1947 - Dec 8, 1978
(Mother of Tammy)
Tammy Jo Lancaster
Feb 13, 1969 - Dec 8, 1978
Edlund Family
6.. Michael Paul Liston
Dec 1953 - Dec 1977
7. Thomas E. Griffin
TEC 5 3839 QM GAS SUP Co
Alaska World War II
Feb 2, 1905 - Oct 11, 1967
8. Geo. "Jug" Morgan, Jr.
Jul 27, 1900 - Jan 5, 1967
9. Dyton A. Gilliland
1910 - 1955
10. Gordon F. Kane
1918 - 1955
11. Daniel Ralph Loewecke
1946 - 1967
12. Cecil E. Rhode
Jul 7, 1902 - Dec 3, 1979
13. Jim A. Kiser
June 14, 1976
64 yrs
(The name on the marker is
misspelled Kaiser)
14. Lewis M. Elwell
CPL Co B 1 AA MG BN
Alaska World War I
Dec 1, 1893 - Nov 8, 1967
Niska
Mabel "Mamie" Elwell
1892 - 1978
(Niska means Wild Goose)
15. James Dunmire
Little Jim
1895 - 1969
16. James O'Brien
Big Jim
1888 - 1968
(James Dunmire and James O'Brien
came to Alaska together in 1935)
17. John Patrick Purcell
1940 - 1981
18. Jerald E. Winkler
Apr 19, 1943 - Aug 31, 1978
19. Kelley Ann McMichael
Jul 21, 1980 - Sep 23, 1981
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20. Our Beloved Tom
Thomas Edward Ingram
Aug 2, 1957 - Apr 6, 1976
21. Victor Guimbard
(Moving the grave of Vic from the
highway right of way near Milepost
49 to this site was the beginning of
the Cooper Landing Cemetery. Vic
was born Feb 19, 1876 at St. Sornin
Leulac, Hte Vienne, France. He fell
into the Kenai River and drowned
about the first of October 1920.)
22. Margaret Jean Good
Oct 28, 1930 - Aug 15, 1991
23. John Lindsay Good
Sgt US Army Korea
Feb 16, 1934 - Nov 15, 1991
24. Beloved Husband
Wm. Howard Percefull
Dec 22, 1914 - Nov 7, 1992
25. Dorothy D. Edlund
Mother of
Carole Tipton Beverly Walters
Lani Lancaster
May 18, 1921 - Aug 24, 1992
(Lani is buried in plot 5)
26. Edna M. Liston
Oct 1, 1913 - Jun 15, 1984
27. Paul H. Smith
Log Cabin Builder
1918 - 1990
28a. Ralph R. Harris
US Navy World War II
Jul 7 1920 - Mar 12 1990
28b. Helen M. Harris
First civilian woman given legal
permit to travel Alcan Highway in
March 1946
Dec 9, 1920 - Sep 19, 2001
29. W. A. "Mac" McCown
1913 - 1987
(Step-father of Jerry E. Winkler
buried in lot 18.)
30. Helen E. Rhode
Jun 9, 1919 - Sep 9, 1992
31. Robert William McMichael
Jan 21, 1915 - Jun 23, 1995
(Grandfather of Kelley Ann
McMichael buried in lot 19)
32. Weldon W. Schweigert
Lt Col US Air Force
Korea Vietnam
1934 - 1992
33. Harold Fred Groothuis
Dec 28, 1927 - Nov 21, 1968
34. Paul Emanuel Backlund
Born April 19, 1958 Paul loved and
served the Lord with every talent
that was given him. "I delight to do
thy will o my God; Thy law is within
my heart." Psalm 40:8 His service
for the Lord ended on earth and
began in Heaven on September 13,
1981. "So I will sing praise to thy
name forever" Psalm 61:8 We love
you Paul and someday the circle will
be unbroken forever
Cinda Kara Kurt Mother Bill Rose
Linda Teresa Karl Lois Joy
(Memorial marker. Lost in an airplane
crash over Alaska coastal waters.)
35. Rodney James Smith
Nov 21, 1954 - Nov 16, 1995
40 years 11 months 25 days
(Mortuary marker)
I Love You
(Engraved stone)
36. Lu Liston
37. Noel Hanson
1913 - 1991
Alyce Hanson
1908 -
39. Loving Mother and Wife
Ruth Kathryn Clemson
Dec 25, 1931 - Apr. 25, 1997
40. Georgetta B. Funk
1917 - 1997
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42a Mary Catherine Patricia Smith
1933 - 1998
Age 64
(Mortuary marker)
No Farewell Words Were Spoken
No Time To Say Goodbye
You Were Gone Before We Knew It,
And Only God Knows Why.
(Engraved stone)
42b William Francis Smith
Dec 22, 1928 - May 12, 2000
Age 71
(Mortuary marker. Pat and Bill's son
Rodney is buried in lot 35)
If Tears Could Build A Stairway,
And Memories A Lane,
I'd Walk Right Up To Heaven
And Bring You Home Again.
44. Sarah Marie Christensen
Jun 23, 2000 - Aug. 18, 2000
Age 8 weeks
(Mortuary marker)
45. In Loving Memory
Shirley Martine Clayton
Oct 14, 1927 - Aug 26, 1998
Earth Has No Sorrow
That Heaven Cannot Heal
(Grandmother of Kelley Ann
McMichael buried in lot 19)
46. Ronald B. Reed
Mar 16, 1935 - Mar 10, 1999
47. In Loving Memory
Greg B. Norris
Adventurer
Oct 31, 1977 - Sep 30, 2001
(A previous mortuary marker gave
middle name Bernard.)
48. Candace JoAnn Biesecker
Nov 8, 1951 - Apr 6, 2002
49. Dorthy J. Ingram
1933 -
(Dorthy is the spelling on the
marker)
John C. Ingram
1929 - 2002
50. Leelynn H. Chumley
1969 - 2002
Forever in our hearts
51. Robin E. "Bob" Pennington
Jan 19, 1945 - Jan 7, 2001
Barbara E. Pennington
Nov 19, 1949 - 
Married Oct 22, 1965
52a In Memory of
Leonard George Thomas
Jul 15, 1912 - Jul 5, 1990
52b In Memory of
Allen Brian Thomas
Mar 12, 1952 - Oct 20, 2000
52c In Memory of
Geraldine O'Brien Thomas
Nov 13, 1912 - Nov 6, 2002
53 W. W. "Bud" Kasulka
Dec 3, 1925 - Jun 8, 2003
A lot of money was spent on
whiskey and women, then I wasted
some!