Sunrise Ranch Cemetery, Larimer County, Colorado
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Donated by Duane Kniebes <DKniebes@compuserve.com> June, 2002
Location
Sunrise Ranch is located on both sides of County Road 29 south and west of
Masonville. The cemetery is on the east side of CR 29, about 0.2 of a mile from CR 29
and 2.7 miles north of the intersection of CR 29 and US 34. Geographical coordinates
are 40 degrees 26 minutes 39 seconds north, and 105 degrees 12 minutes 44 seconds west.
Descriptions of Cemetery and Headstones
As of May 20, 2001, the Sunrise Ranch Cemetery was the final resting place of 80
individuals, all of whom were members of the Church of the Emissaries of Divine Light
community at Sunrise Ranch. For more on the Emissaries in general and Sunrise
Ranch community in particular, see www.emissaries.org on the Internet.
Because of the small size of the east-facing burial plots, all of the 80 burials appear to
be cremains. All of the headstones are flush with the ground.
Except for the headstone described immediately below, which is for five individuals, and
the headstone for the Handzliks, all of the headstones are for single individuals. With
the exception of Mr. and Mrs. Handzlik, who share a headstone, even when it appears
that a husband and wife are both buried in the cemetery, there is no indication of their
relationship on their individual headstones.
Bishop Lloyd A. Meeker
1907-1954
Kathleen Meeker
1925-1954
Albert E. Ackerley
1908-1954
William Van Duzen
1943-1954
Sharon L. Call
1945-1954
The story behind the first headstone listed above involves the crash of a private
plane, a Cessna 180, piloted by Bishop L.A. Meeker, on August 4, 1954. The crash
occurred when the plane "plunged into San Francisco Bay, shortly after taking off from
the Oakland, California, airport." In addition to Bishop Meeker, others killed in the crash
were his wife, Kathleen, 29; Albert Ackerly, 46, who was the Bishop's assistant; Billy Van
Duzen, 10; and Sharon Call, 9
The large headstone described immediately below is a cenotaph; as the headstone
says, Bishop Cecil's ashes were actually buried the Emissaries' 100 Mile House in
British Columbia, Canada. The headstone for Janine Dawn Cecil in the alphabetical list
of individual headstones below was immediately to the left of Bishop Cecil's headstone,
leading one to surmise that she was Bishop Cecil's daughter.
William Martin
Alleyne Cecil
Seventh Marquess of Exeter
Bishop of the Church of
Emissaries of Divine Light
1909-1988
Ashes at Exeter Grove
100 Mile House
British Columbia
The Earth Is the Lord's
and the Fulness Thereof
the World and They That Dwell Therein
Psalm 24
The headstones for the remaining individuals are recorded in alphabetical order to make
it easier for future researchers to locate a specific person:
Reno Arthur Ahlvin III
US Army
Apr 16, 1959 Feb 9, 1997
Nell Sue Allen
1946-1963
Donna J. Bahan
1932-1994
Della E, Bever
1900-1984
Roy J. Bever
1900-1990
Liz Benson
1945-1995
Dorothy D. Brizendine
1882-1979
Rev. Richard Burchby Cable
5/30/26-8/22/1991
Mertle Crist Byl
1894-1982
William Peter Byl
Georgia
Pvt 177 AeroSq
WWI
12/17/1893-6/1/1967
Harriet Burchby Cable
1901-1983
Irving Wallace Cable
US Army WWI
8/26/1897-1/8/90
Janine Dawn Cecil
Jan. - May 1958
Floyd Alvin Conell
Colorado
CPL Signal Corps
Korea
8/21/1929-10/27/1969
Lorraine Cowan
1921-1959
Helen J. Crouch
1921-1986
Tom E. Crouch
1920-1990
Infant Core
1970
Edna De Winton
1910-1958
Rose G. Forker
1896-1990
Bertha Dudley
1885-1962
Mary A. Dunsmore
1916-1974
Michael J. Dunsmore
1948-1971
Carolyn "Bobbie" Garrett
1906-1981
Edmund F. Garrett
1905-1985
Vivian M. Grindstaff
1911-1988
David Harding Groves
1889-1964
Rosa Jane Groves
1891-1973
Handzlik
Harry
6/13/1914-5/1/92
Gloria
4/15/1918-
Edna Henderson
1886-1952
Dora H. Hirth
1897-1989
Ralph George Hooper
Canada
Tec 3 68 Field Hospital
World War II
May 17, 1906 May 19, 1959
Helen V. Jerome
1908-1987
Marie M. Johnson
1899-1990
Roy P.K. Johnson
1896-1969
Ralph H. Jones
Indiana
S Sgt 326 Base Unit AAF
World War II
DFC-AM & 3 OLC
Oct 9, 1911 Aug 13, 1956
Julia W. Kelly
1908-1965
Alice M. Kuykendall
1905-1973
Donald E. Kuykendall
1931-1971
Roy A. Kuykendall
1902-1960
Emily Marks
1901-1976
Gordon Marks
1896-1960
Dorthea E. McCann
1907-1985
Maurice McCann
1911-1987
Kathleen M. McEleney
1941-1989
Fern E. Meeker
1900-1980
Helen Mettlen
1914-1986
Ted Mettlen
1907-1974
Tommy Mettlen
1940-1959
Anna Meyer
1874-1947
Bertha Meyer
1872-1960
Egon Milinkovich
1925-1990
Gladys A. Miller
1915-1987
Alice N. Miner
1902-1980
Winifred Joy Moore
1897-1974
Conrad O'Brien-FFrench
11/19/1893-10/23/1986
Muriel M. Oshane
1901-1977
William A. Oshane
1901-1984
Robert T. Patton
T Sgt US Army
WWII
1921-1991
Beatrice Perry
1895-1983
Elizabeth Protzman
1884-1981
Frank C. Protzman
1884-1976
Della E. Robertson
1897-1977
Craig William Sarbeck
2/1/1951-6/4/1993
Reba Schwartz
10/12/1903-10/14/1998
Who loved Sunrise Ranch
Elizabeth Sciple
1895-1974
George P. Shears
1890-1978
Elsie Sierck
1896-1984
Fred Sierck
U.S. Army
1895-1980
Brian Tannar
1945-1977
Dorothy H. Thompson
1899-1982
Richard H. Thompson
1902-1965
John D. Waskom
1930-1987
Alice A. Wellemeyer
1899-1984
Mary Clayre Withers
1907-1974
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