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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 .
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.
The first Forest Lawn, in Glendale, was founded in 1906 by businessmen who, 6 years later, hired Dr. Hubert Eaton, a firm believer in a joyous life after death.He believed that most cemeteries were "unsightly stone yards", and pledged to create one that would reflect his optimistic beliefs and be "as different, as unlike other cemeteries as sunshine is to darkness, as eternal life is unlike ...
Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries is an American corporation that owns and operates a chain of cemeteries and mortuaries in Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside counties in Southern California. History
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; Michael Wayne (1934–2003), film producer and actor, son of John Wayne; Paul Weatherwax (1900–1960), editor
The cemetery was originally established in 1953 by the neighboring Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills Cemetery. In 1959, it became an exclusively Jewish cemetery, and in 1967 it was acquired by Sinai Temple , the oldest and largest Conservative synagogue in Los Angeles, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which dedicated its mortuary and cemetery resources to all members of ...
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In 1949, the company established Lake Lawn Park Cemetery in New Orleans and developed a large perpetual-care community mausoleum with more than 31,000 crypts. In 1969, under the tutelage of President Frank B. Stewart, Jr. (Albert's grandson), the company purchased the adjoining Metairie Cemetery .