About Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery
Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery is a memorial park near Anchorage, Anchorage Muny, Alaska. It lies about 0.8 mi west of Anchorage. The grounds sit at about 115 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 33 notable people buried here, including Wally Hickel, Howard Pollock and Anthony Dimond. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2752697. The nearest other listed cemetery is Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, about 6.9 mi to the south. The nearest funeral chapel we know of is Evergreen Memorial Chapel in Anchorage, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 5 cemeteries we list in Anchorage Muny, and 3 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Anchorage. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery
Among them: 4 business leaders, 1 artist, 1 aviator or astronaut, 1 governor, 1 inventor or engineer, 1 musician, 1 physician, 1 US representative.
- Wally Hickel1919-2010Governor of Alaska, United States Secretary of the Interior
- Howard Pollock1920-2011United States Representative from Alaska, President of the National Rifle Association
- Anthony Dimond1881-1953American politician
- Thelma Buchholdt1934-2007American politician
- Ramona Barnes1938-2003Politician
- Raymond Eugene Plummer1913-1987American lawyer and jurist
- Sydney Laurence1865-1940American artist
- Alberta Schenck Adams1928-2009Inupiat civil rights activist
- Eklutna Annie1954-1980Informal name given to an unidentified murder victim discovered in 1980
- George M. Sullivan1922-2009American politician in Alaska
- Joe D. Montgomery1918-2013American politician
- Joshua Wright1929-2017American dentist and politician
Show all 33 notable burials
- M. Joseph Conroy1874-1946American politician
- Russ Meekins Sr.1915-1995American politician
- William E. Beltz1912-1960American politician
- Bill Miles1943-2017
- Joseph H. Romig1872-1951American missionary, physician and politician
- Kathryn Ostrosky1923-1992American politician
- Lorene Harrison1905-2005American educator and singer
- Ralph Moody1915-1997American politician
- Tim Kelly1944-2009American businessman and politician
- Arthur A. Shonbeck1878-1945Miner and business leader
- Carl Brady1919-2005American politician
- Clifford Groh1926-1998American politician
- Homer Moseley1907-1982American politician
- J. Earl Cooper1907-1964American lawyer and politician
- Jack Weise1915-2000American politician
- Jo Miller1932-2006American politician
- M. M. Moore1913-2006American politician
- Mike Rose1921-1996French-born American politician
- Peter Lovseth1921-2007American politician
- Victor C. Rivers1905-1959American engineer
- William Moran1916-1996American politician in Alaska
People whose Wikidata entry gives Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
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What Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
Funeral homes near Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery
- Evergreen Memorial Chapel0.5 miFuneral chapel · Anchorage · (907) 279-5477
- Witzleben Legacy Funeral Homes2.4 miFuneral home · Anchorage · (907) 277-1682
- Alaska Cremation Center2.4 miCremation provider · Anchorage · (907) 279-3741
- Flameless Cremation Services3.0 miCremation provider · Anchorage · (907) 242-4247
- Alaska Cook Inlet Funeral Services4.3 miFuneral home · Anchorage · (907) 337-5003
- Cremation Society of Alaska4.3 miCremation provider · Anchorage · (907) 277-2777
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