Homer Alaska - Obituaries

Linda was born July 23, 1955, to Naomi Alma and Walter Lee Peace. She was one of four children and spent her childhood in Banks, Ore.

She moved to Alaska in 1982 with her three daughters looking for adventure and a fresh start.

She loved camping and fishing on the Russian River and spending summers mining for gold in Chicken.

She moved to Dutch Harbor in 1991 to work for Pen Air and enjoyed exploring the island and beach combing. She loved flying into remote bays and spending the afternoon fishing wide open streams teaming with salmon. She spent summers enjoying Fort Glenn on Umnak and Chernofski Sheep Ranch on Unalaska where she taught her daughters to hunt sheep.

In 1995 she moved to Soldotna and gained a love of gathering medicinal plant for teas and tinctures. She spent summers traveling to Fairbanks to watch the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics and to spend time camping in Denali and soaking at Chena Hot springs.

Linda worked for Frontier Community Services and went to Kenai Peninsula College full time, earning her associate of arts degree in 1999. She loved archaeology and was pursuing her degree in anthropology when in 2000 she met the love of her life, Tom Cooper. They were married Dec. 29, 2000. Both having a love of exploration and adventure, they spent the next 10 years searching for antlers to carve, hunting in Kiana, collecting rocks in Arizona, gold detecting at Ganes Creek, doing float trips on various rivers and loving each other.

She was preceded in death by her parents Naomi Ledford and Walter Peace and brother-in-law Jim Seavey.

She is survived by her husband Tom Cooper of Soldotna; daughters, Sheron Jackson of Soldotna, Diana Long of Anchorage and Christina Cramer of Soldotna; son-in-laws Russell Cramer of Soldotna and Brian Bellamy of Anchorage; step-children, Jenny and Lynn Martin of Greenland, N.H., Travis and Jennifer Cooper of Lynnwood, Wash., Byron Cooper of Lynnwood, Wash., Luke Cooper of Anchorage, Tom and Tammera Cooper of Bow, Wash.; Clint and Sonja Cooper of Lynnwood, Wash.; brother, Bill Peace of Soldotna; sisters, Nancy Coon of Banks, Ore., Judy Seavey of Banks, Ore.; 21 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and many nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews of Oregon.

Arrangements were by Peninsula Memorial Chapel.