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Forest Lawn-Long Beach is a 38-acre mortuary and memorial garden in Long Beach, California, United States. The gardens were established as Sunnyside Memorial Gardens in 1921 by Cecil E. Bryan, Sr., an entrepreneur whose family operated the facility for three generations. Sunnyside was one of the first major cemeteries in Long Beach.
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
Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Long Beach, California. Pages in category "Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Long Beach)" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries. Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale; Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery, Los Angeles; Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Long Beach [9] Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale; Green Hills Memorial Park, Rancho Palos Verdes; Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Culver City; Hollywood Forever Cemetery ...
The first Forest Lawn replica of David was installed at Forest Lawn on June 22, 1939. [5] The statue was placed using a series of ropes and pulleys. The statue fell due to seismic activity in 1971. [6] The head and right foot of the 1939 replica is on display at the Forest Lawn Museum. Later Forest Lawn copies fell in 1994 and 2020. [6]
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 ...
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