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Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary is a cemetery and mortuary located in the Westwood area of Los Angeles. It is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in Westwood, with an entrance from Glendon Avenue. [1] The cemetery was established as Sunset Cemetery in 1905, but had been used for burials since the 1880s.
Ronnie James Dio (1942–2010), heavy metal singer and songwriter, member of Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell and Dio [1] [11] [23] Roy Oliver Disney (1893–1971), businessman, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company [ 1 ]
A curving and irregular road, laid out by 1951 among the rolling green hills, gave a rural effect in the heart of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The first buildings, a mortuary, an office, a garage, and a maintenance warehouse, were also built in 1951, and the new cemetery was opened for burials on March 4, 1952. [3]
Ernest Carroll Moore (1871–1955), educator, co-founder of University of California, Los Angeles [120] Harvey Seeley Mudd (1888–1955), engineer and educator William Mulholland (1855–1935), engineered the Los Angeles Aqueduct , Mulholland Dam , St. Francis Dam and other dams, Panama Canal consultant, namesake of Mulholland Drive [ 121 ] [ 81 ]
Long Beach Municipal Cemetery, Signal Hill [9] Los Angeles National Cemetery, West Los Angeles; Mission San Gabriel Arcángel Cemetery, Long Beach; Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles; Mount Zion Cemetery, East Los Angeles; Oak Park Cemetery, Claremont [11] Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Chatsworth; Odd Fellows ...
In return for a zoning variance to permit the cemetery, the founders of Evergreen gave the City of Los Angeles a 9-acre (36,000 m 2) parcel of the proposed cemetery in 1877 for use as an indigent graveyard, often referred as a "potter's field." [7] Ownership of the indigent cemetery passed from the City to the County of Los Angeles in 1917. At ...
Burials at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica (61 P) Pages in category "Cemeteries in Los Angeles County, California" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
[citation needed] The interments include pioneers and members of prominent families in Los Angeles and the state. [citation needed] Rosedale was the first cemetery in Los Angeles open to all races and creeds, and was the first to adopt the design concept of lawn cemeteries. This is where the grounds are enhanced to surround the graves with ...