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All Souls LB
Angelus-Rosedale LA
Brand Glendale
Calvary LA
Chapel of the Pines LA
Desert Lawn Pdale
Eden San Fernando
Eternal Valley Newhall
Evergreen LA
FL Covina
FL Glendale
FL Hollywood Hills
FL LB
Glen Haven Sylmar
Grandview Pasadena
Green Hills RPV
Hillside Culver City
Hollywood Forever
Holy Cross Culver City
Home of Peace ELA
Inglewood
Lincoln
Live Oak Mon
Los Ang Nat
Mount Sinai LA
Mount Zion ELA
Mountain View Altadena
Oak Park Clrmnt
Oakdale Glendora
Oakwood Chats
Oddfellows LA
Pac Crest RB
Qn of Hvn Rowland Hts
Resurrection
Rose Hills Whittier
San Fdo Mission MH
San Gabriel
San Gabriel Mission
St Matthews PP
Sunnyside LB
Valhalla NH
Valley Oaks WV
Westwood Vill LA
Woodlawn SM
Abbott Dorothy
Dorothy Abbott was a showgirl in Las Vegas before acting in the 1940s thru 1960s. She was on Leave It To Beaver, and played Sergeant Friday's girlfriend on Dragnet. She committed suicide over the divorce from actor Rudy Diaz.
Barnett Griff
Griff Barnett was an actor known for Criss Cross (1949), Holiday Affair (1949) and Angel Face (1953). His last appearance was in 1957's The Spirit of St. Louis.
Beard Bobby
Bobbie Beard was a child actor, best-known for playing "Cotton" in several Our Gang short films from 1932-34. His older brother was Matthew "Stymie" Beard, one of the most popular Our Gang characters. Bobbie appeared as Stymie's younger brother in Hi'-Neighbor!, Forgotten Babies, Fish Hooky, A Lad an' a Lamp and Birthday Blues. In A Lad an' a Lamp, Spanky McFarland keeps wishing that Cotton could be a monkey. Despite his notable presence in several films, Beard never spoke a word. After Our Gang, Beard was an auction dealer, and later, he worked at the Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles and became good friends with Groucho Marx. He served in the Korean War, and spent his final years working for the LA School Board.
Bedwell Harry
Harry Bedwell was an author of railroad fiction. Born in Iowa, he worked his way west as a telegraph operator, and eventually settled in Southern California. He became a stringer for the Saturday Evening Post. In his fiction writings, Bedwell's central character was an "op" named Eddie Sand. Eddie appears in a whole series of short stories, many of those later compiled in a paperback called The Boomer. When World War II caused a traffic surge on the rails, Bedwell took Eddie out of retirement as part of "The Old Soft Metal Gang" -- gold in our teeth, silver in our hair, and lead in the "caboose".
Buddha
Buddha and cemetery.
Buddha
Buddha Cem
Buddha Cem
Buddha Sign
Buddhas
Buddhist Col Sign
The Buddhist memorial columbarium at Rose Hills.
Buddhist Colum
Buddhist Colum
Buddhist Colum
Burrell Rusty
Rusty Burrell was a bailiff in the trials of Caryl Chessman, Charles Manson, Patty Hearst and other high-profile cases. He was best known as the bailiff on TV's The People's Court.
Carey Timothy
Actor Tim Carey was known as an eccentric on and off-screen. He played one of the three soldiers executed in Paths of Glory, among other roles.
Carson Ken
Ken Carson was an American entertainer primarily known for singing Western music. He was an early member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and appeared with them in 22 Roy Rogers films. He voiced the animated wise old owl in Disney's 1948 live-and-animated film So Dear to My Heart. He mastered at least six instruments and was a skillful whistler. He was an excellent horseman and golfer, winning a NBC-sponsored golf tournament. Carson sang at the wedding of Tricia Nixon Cox, which he said was the highlight of his career.
Castillo Robert
Robert Castillo Jr. was an American professional baseball pitcher, playing for the LA Dodgers and Minnesota Twins from 1977-85. In the 1981 World Series as a Dodger, he pitched one inning against the New York Yankees. In 1987, he pitched in Japan for the Chunichi Dragons. Castillo is credited with teaching his Dodgers team-mate, Fernando Valenzuela, how to throw a screwball.
Chandler Robert
Bob Chandler was a football tight end for the Oilers and Raiders, and led the league in receptions over a three-year span. He caught 4 passes in SB XV. He was a non-smoker but died of a rare lung cancer.
Chandler Robert
The Chandler family plot. He grew up locally.
Chapel
Coddington Boyd
Boyd Coddington is famous for his hot rod designs, and had a local shop.
Columb Int
Columb Shrine
Courtney George
George Courtney, as Curly Bradley, began as a stunt man in silent films in the mid 1920s. In 1933, he joined the NBC Radio Network as a voice actor in the lead role of Tom Mix in the western radio adventure program "Tom Mix", which aired until 1950. He appeared in 1939's In Old Monterey, and TV's Calvacade of Stars in 1957.
Donfeld
Donald Feld, later just Donfeld, was a 4-time oscar-nominated costume designer.
Edwards Ted
Escalante Jaime
Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutiérrez was a Bolivian-American educator best-known for teaching students calculus from 1974 to 1991 at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. In 1982, 18 of his students passed the Advanced Placement Calculus exam, but the Educational Testing Service was suspicious because all the students made an identical error on the same problem, among other things. Fourteen students were asked to retake, and they did well enough to have their scores reinstated. This was portrayed in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver. In 1993, the asteroid 5095 Escalante was named after him.
Flournoy Elizabeth
Elizabeth Flournow was an actress, with her first credit as a doctor in Adam's Rib (1949). She was mostly uncredited in subsequent films which include And Baby Makes Three, Annie Get Your Gun, Bedtime for Bonzo, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Titanic (1953), A Star is Born, My Man Godfrey, and her last, The Great Impostor in 1960.
Gibbons John
John Gibbons was captain of the basketball team at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. The team went 8-0 to capture the gold medal. Gibbons went on to teach and coach at UCLA before joining Phillips Oil where he made his career in the petroleum industry.
Gordon Mary
Mary Gordon is most famous as Mrs. Hudson, Sherlock Holmes' housekeeper, in the popular mystery films of the 1930s and 1940s, She appeared in Frankenstein, Mutiny on the Bounty, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, How Green Was My Valley, and The Pride of the Yankees.
Gregory Bryan
Gregory Beckerleg was a rock musician, and founding member and guitarist for The Cramps. He took the name Bryan after Brian Jones from The Rolling Stones. He was known for wild stage antics, and long black-and-white striped hair. He appeared on The Cramps' first two albums, but abruptly left in 1980. Gregory played in Beast 1980–1983. He and his wife created a horror TV show host called "Freezer" in 1984. Bryan played a zombie in George Romero's Day of the Dead. After divorcing and relocating to Florida, where he managed an adult book store, Gregory moved to Los Angeles and formed The Dials, performing from 1992–1995. Gregory was a science-fiction and horror film fan, and designed jewelry and clothing art, did charcoal drawings, and theater makeup and horror costume design. In 2001, he drove himself to the emergency room and later died from heart failure.
Hazzard Walt
Walt Hazzard played basketball on the UCLA championship team of 1964, played on the gold medal wining Olympic team in 1964, played 10 season in the NBA, coached college basketball including a championship with UCLA, earned a PAC-10 coach of the year award, and scouted for the Lakers.
Hopper William
William Hopper was an actor, and the only child of actress/Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper. He appeared in predominantly minor roles in more than 80 films in the 1930s and '40s, but in 1937, he was the leading man in two films, Public Wedding with Jane Wyman, and Over the Goal with June Travis. He also had significant roles with Ann Sheridan in The Footloose Heiress (1937) and Mystery House (1938). He played a reporter in in Knute Rockne, All American; The Maltese Falcon; and Yankee Doodle Dandy. After serving in the Navy during WWII, he left acting to pursue business and sell cars, but in the mid-1950s, he was persuaded by director William Wellman to resume his film career, in The High and The Mighty. He played the father of Natalie Wood in Rebel Without a Cause, and the father in The Bad Seed, and he co-starred in 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957). He became best known for his work in TV as private detective Paul Drake on Perry Mason, for which he won an Emmy in 1959.
Horton Clara
Clara Horton started acting in silent movies at age 8 in The Homecoming, and played Becky Thatcher in 2 Tom Sawyer movies. She appeared in 88 films including Bengal Tiger (1936) and her last, Time to Kill (1942).
Hulette Gladys
Gladys Hulette (1896-1991) was an actress in the early years of silent movies and through the mid-1930s. She performed on stage at age three and on screen at seven. Early roles were in Sappho and Phaon, Romeo and Juliet (1908) and The Smoke Fairy (1909). On stage, in Blue Bird, she played the wonder child. She played Beth in Little Women. Talkies included Torch Singer (1933), Resale Value (1933) and uncredited roles in The Girl From Missouri and One Hour Late, both from 1934. Hulette was also a talented artist.
Jenkins Augustus
Augustus Jenkins was a blues pianist and singer, recording for Chess in the early 1950s. In the 1960s, he became popular on the Los Angeles area blues scene. He recorded with Flash, Combo, Catalina, General Artist and his own Pioneer label. He toured with bandleader Johnny Otis and traveled with West Coast Rhythm and Blues Revue Show case. He is a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.
JVF Memorial
Justice for Homocide Victims sign.
JVF Memorial
Justice for Homocide Victims memorial. Some of the funds were provided by relatives of other famous victims such as Sharon Tate and Dominique Dunne.
Kilpatrick Bud
Leland Kilpatrick was a costume designer, and earned a Neiman Marcus Fashion Award in 1963..
Knight Goodwin
Ky Nguyen Cao
Nguyen Cao Ky was elected prime minister of South Vietnam in 1965, and Vice President from 1967-71. When Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese in 1975 he and his family fled to the US.
Larson Jack
Laughlin William
William Laughlin played Froggy in 29 "Our Gang" comedies from 1940 to 1944. He used his real voice only once. When the show ended, so did his career. He was hit by a truck and killed while delivering newspapers.
Lucero Shanta
Shanta Lucero was found shot to death at the rear of a building in Long Beach CA. Three years earlier, she had testified in an attempted murder trial which resulted in a conviction for the boyfriend of Quennie Reyna. In 2004, Lucero and another friend drove to an apartment to pick up Reyna and go cruising to "look for guys". Outside the apartment, Reyna and her boyfriend were arguing, then he got a shotgun and shot Reyna in the neck. Lucero admitted she and Reyna were using methamphetamine, and Reyna's boyfriend was drunk.
Luke Keye
Keye Luke was an artist, and the first Chinese-American contract actor with RKO, Universal and MGM. He is most famous as the blind Master Po in the TV series, Kung Fu.
Lyman William
William Lyman played 13 seasons in the NFL. In his career, he helped the Cleveland Bulldogs win the NFL Championship in 1924 and Chicago Bears win the NFL Championship in 1933. He is credited for pioneering the defensive play of constant shifting and sliding on the line which confused opponents. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1964.
MacDonald Dave
Dave MacDonald was a road racer with 47 victories and 69 top 3 finishes. He died after fiery crash in the 1964 Indy 500. This crash led directly to the change from gasoline to methanol fuel.
Martinez Linda
Linda Martinez was composer and pianist. She was a keyboardist for The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show, and toured with Destiny's Child. She won the Turner Classic Movies Composers Competition, and began writing music for films.
McMurtry Charles
Charles McMurtry played college football locally, and as a defensive tackle in the NFL with Buffalo and Oakland. After 4 pro years, he retired to pursue other interests.
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