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This is a list of notable people buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park cemetery in Glendale, California. The cemetery was founded in 1906 and has been used for many funerals of film stars and other celebrities since then.
- Louis Alterie
Return to Chicago and death. During Alterie's absence from...
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Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately owned cemetery in...
- Louis Alterie
Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately owned cemetery in Glendale, California, United States. It is the original and current flagship location of Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries, a chain of six cemeteries and four additional mortuaries in Southern California.
- 1906; 117 years ago
- 300 acres
- 250,000+
- Glendale, California
Larry Walters (1949–1993), truck driver known as "Lawnchair Larry" or "The Lawn Chair Pilot who flew a lawn chair with weather balloons" Kent Warner (1943–1984), costume designer Ruth Waterbury (1896–1982), film critic
Sep 29, 2022 · HISTORY. Inside the Disneyland of Graveyards. How Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, a star-studded cemetery in Los Angeles, corporatized mourning in America. Greg Melville. Author, Over My Dead...
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Nov 16, 2022 · There are plaques scattered throughout Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in Glendale, California, that detail its creator’s vision. When Dr. Hubert Eaton took over the 300 acres (121 hectares) in 1917, he installed a massive stone tablet engraved with what he called “ The Builder’s Dream and The Builder’s Creed .”. It speaks of “a great ...
Dec 11, 2015 · Founded in 1906, Glendale, CA’s Forest Lawn Memorial Park is widely considered one of the premier locations in California to be laid eternally to rest. Boasting lush grounds and elegant architecture, it was once referred to as “Disneyland for the dead.”.