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Chapel of the Pines Crematory is a crematory and columbarium located at 1605 South Catalina Street, Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California, in the West Adams District a short distance southwest of Downtown. It is beside Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, one street east, at the southwest corner of Catalina and Venice Boulevard.
This category contains articles about individuals whose cremains are inurned at Chapel of the Pines Crematory, 1605 S. Catalina Street, Los Angeles, California. Pages in category "Burials at Chapel of the Pines Crematory"
San Francisco Columbarium & Funeral Home, San Francisco; San Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco; San Francisco Marine Hospital, was a former psychiatric hospital (operated from 1875 to 1912) with an adjacent cemetery, some of the graves are still visible as of 2006. [18] [19] West Coast Memorial to the Missing of World War II
By 1924, burial space in the potter's field was exhausted and the county built a crematorium at the site, on the corner of Lorena and 1st streets, and began to cremate its indigent deceased. [ 8 ] Evergreen Cemetery purchased most of the 9-acre (36,000 m 2 ) potter's field from the county in 1964.
Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln: April 19 – May 3, 1865 United States: East and Midwest: 150,000 [5] State funeral of Victor Hugo: June 1, 1885 French Third Republic: Paris: 2,000,000–3,000,000 [6] Funeral of August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons: November 13, 1887 United States: Chicago ~500,000 [7] Funeral ...
Viewing (museum display) Museum of Funeral Customs. In death customs, a viewing (sometimes referred to as reviewal, calling hours, funeral visitation in the United States and Canada) is the time that family and friends come to see the deceased before the funeral, once the body has been prepared by a funeral home. [1]
Bay Pines National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Pinellas County, northwest of the city of St. Petersburg, Florida. It encompasses 27.3 acres (11.0 ha), and as of the end of 2008, had 27,369 interments.
A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. [1] Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.