The McGahan Cemetery
McGahan Cemetery is located in Nikiski, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska. It is owned and
maintained by the North Kenai Chapel, 53580 Kenai Spur Highway, Kenai, Alaska.. It was
deeded to the church by Kenneth McGahan. It has a chain link fence. The roadway into the cemetery goes between Tracts 4 and 5. This reading is from USGENWEB archives; last Read September 3, 2003.
Tract 1
1 Donna Otis
Dec 1, 1965 - Dec 3, 1965
1 Daniel Otis
Dec 1, 1965 - Dec 1, 1965
(Donna and Daniel are on a double
marker)
2 Beloved Son & Brother
Victor Robert Hogge
Jul 22, 1965 - Feb 21, 1989
Victor's Life
The life that counts must aim to rise
above the earth to sunlit skies,
must fix its gaze on paradise,
that is the life that counts
Joe Hogge
(Etching)
3 Eckley E. McGahan
US Army
1922 - 1989
(Known as Tony)
4 Our Beloved Son and Brother
Clint Patrick Starnes
Nov 24, 1969 - Oct 8, 1987
"Bye Mom and Dad"
"See You Later"
5 1948 "Butch" 1966
Marvin Merel McGahan
5 Kenneth McGahan
1914 - 1989
5 Margaret McGahan
1917 - 2003
Forever in Our Hearts
(Kenneth and Margaret are on a
double marker)
10 In Loving Memory
Erva McGahan
1912 - 1984
10 In Loving Memory
Henry McGahan
1909 - 2001
(Previous mortuary marker
Feb 24, 1909 - Apr 18, 2001)
15 John H. Lounsbury III
May 12, 1953 - Jul 19, 1965
27 Our Beloved
Rick R. Liston
Jan 9, 1953 - May 15, 1987
Forever in Our Hearts
34 Wayne M. McGahan
PC 3 US Navy Vietnam
May 23, 1943 - Aug 1, 1989
Tract 2
1 Joseph T. Osterhout
Sep 26, 1892 - Mar 30, 1968
1 Daniel McGahan
(Grave marked only with broken
concrete marker. Identified from
cemetery records. Son of Kenny
McGahan)
2 In Loving Memory
Kenneth N. McGahan
Jun 2, 1956 - May 30, 1982
(Masonic emblem on marker)
162
3 Anthony Conklin
(A concrete marker with his name in
raised letters. Cemetery records list
Anthony J. Conklin died Apr 30,
1977 age 3 weeks.)
5 Bayou Deandra Broussard
(Unmarked grave. Identified from
cemetery records died Jun 30,
2001)
Tract 3
2 Aulden Peek
Feb 12, 1911 - Nov 20, 1982
(Mortuary marker)
3 Our Mother
Ollie Mae Lancaster
1899 - 1975
Gone, but not forgotten
17 Cherished Memory
Jonathan Harding Zundel
May 29, 1983 - Nov 13, 2001
Hercules RA 16h 14m 33s D
45(degree sign) 5 (foot sign)
34 Patricia Brown
(A concrete marker with her name in
raised letters. Cemetery records
died Oct 14, 1974 age 47 yrs)
36 Sidney Webb
(Unmarked grave. Identified from
cemetery records died Dec 28,
1983)
36 Nell Clementine Webb
Nov 26, 1924 - Dec 12, 1969
"Remember me O Lord 106-4"
Tract 4
1 Ralph Charles Ault
Jun 10, 1928 - Jun 2, 1969
1 Frank C. Ault
Feb 12, 1954 - Feb 4, 1985
2 George L. Jaynes
Alaska World War II
Sgt US Army
Aug 4, 1926 - Sep 21, 1973
3 Charles Koehler
(A concrete marker with his name in
raised letters. Cemetery records
died Dec 1, 1979.)
3 Sylvia Koehler
(Unmarked grave. Identified from
cemetery records. Died June 15,
1996)
4 Denise Darnley
(A concrete marker with her name in
raised letters.)
Tract 5
1 Berneice L. Carlson
1914 - 1967
Melvin C. Carlson
1906 - 1975
2 Curt Eastlick
(A concrete marker with his name in
raised letters. Cemetery records list
Curt Phillip Eastlick died May 2,
1976 age 18 years.)
3 Anton Tony Eastlick
US Army Korea
1935 - 1979
(Cemetery records list Tony Eastlick
Mar 21, 1935 - Feb 9, 1979)
4 George Horner
(A concrete marker with his name in
raised letters.)
5 Ronald R. Ernst
ADJ 2 US Army
Vietnam
1944 - 1985
5 Rev. Raymond Ernst
Jan 23, 1917 - Jun 12, 2000
God is Our Refuge and Strength
Psalm 46:1
6 Samuel E. Welton
Nov 12, 1985 - Sep 15, 2000
The Lord is My Shepherd
7 Jasper Bitterich
Mar 28, 1930 - Nov 16, 2000
163
7 Patricia L. Bitterich
Mar 8, 1941 -
Tract 6
1 Pat R. K. Duncan
Kansas CPL 112 Cavalry
World War II
Mar 17, 1924 - Dec 24, 1969
1 ___________Duncan
(Identified from cemetery records)
2 Unknown
(Cemetery records someone buried
here)
3 Mahlan C. Morris
(Unmarked grave. Identified from
cemetery records Dec 4, 1970 - Oct
7, 1971)
3 Jack Leslie Conright
EN 3 US Navy
1937 - 1979
(Cemetery records died Mar 25,
1979)
4 Imogene Marie Haviland
Oct 4, 1910 - Mar 3, 1976
Harold Burton Haviland
Aug 7, 1909 - Dec 11, 1983
33 John E. Duggar
US Army World War II
1923 - 1985
(Known as Jack)
34 Stanley L. Best
1926 - 1977
34 Erma L. Best
1930 -
Together Forever
Married 1946
(Stanley and Erma are on a double
marker.)
34 Our Beloved Son
Christopher Wayne Best
Apr 7, 1983
Asleep in the arms of Jesus
35 Treavor J. Kruger
May 29, 1978 - May 31, 1978
(Cemetery records son of Leo and
Donna)
36 Mahlon D. Troyer
Apr 6, 1937 - Feb 27, 1975
(Eldon and Mahlon are on a double
marker.)
36 Eldon Wayne Troyer
Oct 16, 1956 - Dec 20, 1969
Tract 7
1 Raymond J. Williams
Colorado CPL
US Army Korea
Nov 26, 1930 - Jul 1, 1970
1 Unknown
(Cemetery records someone buried
here)
2 Glover Crouch
1916 -
(Cemetery records deceased with
no date.)
2 Wife
Charlotte Crouch
1922 - 1976
2 Charlotte Mae Crouch
Feb 9, 1976
Age 54
(Mortuary marker next to
headstone)
2 Daughter
Dodie Crouch
1959
(Glover, Charlotte and Dodie are on
one stone. According to cemetery
records, Dodie Crouch is buried in
Tract 7 Lot 35)
3 Beloved
Carol DeShong
Oct 9, 1952 - Oct 9, 1985
4 Forever in Our Hearts
Daniel T. O'Brien
May 25, 1950 - Jul 2, 1991
He Loved the Lord
164
4 In Loving Memory
Ruthie V. Beckley
Jul 19, 1924 - Nov 7, 1995
Beloved, wife, mother, friend
5 Neil L. Wirz
Sep 27, 1922 - May 24, 2000
Age 77
(Mortuary marker)
7 Brownie
(Information on mortuary marker
Gene E. Brown
Jan 21, 1923 - Aug 22, 1997)
26 Unknown
(Appears to be a double grave.
Flowers, stakes, windmills and
wrought iron butterflies are on this
plot.)
10 Karon LaDawn Smith
Feb 27, 1952 - Jul 23, 1999
Age 47
(Mortuary marker)
30 Gary Wayne Vance
Jan 8, 1941 - Apr 30, 2001
Age 60
(Mortuary Marker)
32 Oil Roughneck
Edward A. Ferguson
1934 -
32 Grandma to all
Gloria J. Ferguson
1935 - 1999
(Former mortuary marker
Sep 1, 1935 - Nov 14, 1999)
33 Marjorie Louise DeShong
Sep 18, 1932 - Feb 27, 1988
34 Wilma A. Mamaw Schandler
Mar 5, 1898 - Apr 23, 1989
34 At Rest
Eric Schandler
1902 - 1984
35 Dodie Crouch
(Dodie's name is on a marker with
her parents on Tract 7 Lot 2.
According to cemetery records she
died Nov 18, 1996 and is buried in
lot 35.)
35 Steven Ray Williams
Oct 27, 1961 - Aug 7, 1999
Loving son, brother, father & friend
36 In Loving Memory
John C. Whitaker
1905 - 1972
36 Helen Lorraine Whitaker
(Unmarked grave. Identified from
cemetery records. Jan 30, 1912 -
Nov 10, 1978. Cremains buried with
husband.)
Tract 8
1 Dorothy Masek
(A concrete marker with her name in
raised letters. Cemetery records
Dorothy C. Masek Jan 13, 1919 -
Oct 10, 1972)
1 Louis Masek
US Army World War II
Sep 1, 1902 - Jul 4, 1988
2 __________ Haverkak
(Unmarked grave. Identified from
cemetery records.)
2 Ronda R. Bruffett
(Unmarked grave. Identified from
cemetery records died Sep 28, 1976
age 19)
3 Dale E. House
Sep 26, 1930 - Feb 4, 1983
4 Calvin "Clay" Lundy
Nov 29, 1953
A man of love and honor
of total integrity
Superior son, brother
Husband and father
Passed here Jan 6, 1986
(Masonic emblem)
165
5 Marie Olere Goode
1947 - 1993
(Cemetery records died Oct 24,
1993)
6 Terry A. Lee
Aug 11, 1961 - Apr 13, 1994
Son and brother
Joseph and Michael's father
Michelle's loving husband and
Best friend
6 Milton L. McCoughey
SGT US Army World War II
Jul 8, 1919 - Jan 5, 1996
(Individual hand prints on grave with
the names Jesse, Tom, Jord.)
7 Taylor J. Payment
Nov 11, 1995
Forever in the arms of Jesus
(Name on a former cross
Taylor Joshua)
8 Wallace A Sidback
US Army
1918 - 1996
(Cemetery records died Oct 1,
1996)
8 Elsie M. Sidback
Dec 24, 1923 -
9 Eleanor J. Smith
2nd Lt US Army
World War II
Jun 21, 1921 - Apr 16, 2002
10 Missy Batty
(Unmarked. Name from cemetery
records.)
11 Forever in Our Hearts
Elmer Eugene Pharris, Jr.
Oct 5, 1960 - Oct 28, 2000
26 Love Loves On
Scott Gray Knight
Jun 11, 1974 - Oct 22, 1999
Isaiah 40:31
27 "We Love You Nick"
Eugene Nicholas Dolliver II
Feb 26, 1943 - May 23, 1996
Free at Last
28 Norman O. Sanders
US Navy
Sep 8, 1915 - Jan 30, 1986
28 Jan Sanders
1916 - 1983
Little Things I Could
Have Said and Done
29 Unknown
(Cemetery records died Aug 6,
1998)
30 Dan Goff
(Grave marked only with black liner
and red garden rock. Identified from
cemetery records died Apr 19,
1994)
31 John G. Hibbert
1918 - 1993
(Cemetery records Apr 29, 1993)
31 Vera Hibbert
1918 -
32 Sandra M. Supple
1943 - 1986
33 Onis W. King
Sep 21, 1921 - Sep 6, 2002
The Lord is my shepherd
A much loved husband, father and
friend.
33 TDK
Terry Don King
Oct 28, 1950 - Jan 2, 1986
A much loved son and brother
May our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ hold Terry in his arms for now
and forevermore
34 David Aaron Williams
Nov 20, 1958 - Jul 30, 1979
Thy work was well done
35 Son
Steven E. Williams
Apr 6, 1962 - Oct 27, 1986
God Alone Understands
166
36 Sasha Ludine
infant daughter of
John and Susan Johnson
1976
The Lord is My Shepherd
(Only Sasha Ludine is listed in the
first line on the marker. Surname
Johnson from cemetery records.)
36 Rita Steele
(A concrete marker with her name in
raised letters. Cemetery records
Mar 22, 1914 - Dec 26, 1971)
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This information is transcribed from "Alaska's Kenai Peninsula Death
Records and Cemetery Inscriptions" compiled by Kenai Totem Tracers,
copyright 1983, pages 44-45.
McGahan Cemetery is located at Mile 29, North Road, and is at present a
private cemetery on land dedicated for this purpose by Ken and Margaret
McGahan in 1965. The cemetery was recorded by Elsie Seaman from
information obtained from a plot plan and from Walsh Mortuary records.
