Do you need to get information from California cemetery records? If so, this is a task that is relatively easy, and it will not cost you a whole lot of money. Yes, there probably will be a fee, but it will be minimal, to cover administrative costs at the cemetery. California cemetery records contain a wealth of information about your ancestors from the state, and they can lead you to even more ancestors that you may not have even known about. If you are trying to create a family tree, this is an excellent way to gather a lot of the information you are going to need for your research.
California Cemetery and gravestone inscriptions are a rich source of information for family historians. For Definitions of all Cemetery Terms See Symbols on Gravestones and Their Interpretations
Be Prepared for a Lot of Work
When you are putting together a family tree using California cemetery records and other documents, you can expect to put a lot of work into your project. But, unlike other jobs, this is not really going to seem like work. Once you begin digging into the California cemetery records, you will probably find that the information is so fascinating that your project is not work, but a labor of love that is fun to work on.
Using California cemetery records is a good way to learn a lot about your ancestors. Of course, these are not the only records you are going to be using, but California cemetery records are an excellent place to start.
What Can You Learn?
California cemetery records hold a lot of important information that is going to be vital to your research. For example, if you want to know how an ancestor died, you can usually find out from California cemetery records. This is important to know, and you may even find that there is a family history of a certain health issue. Learning this from cemetery records may not only help your research, but it could end up saving your life, or the life of one of your loved ones. Other things you can learn from California cemetery records include the name of the attending physician at the time of death, names of the deceased’s family members, location of death, and more.
Research In California Cemetery Records
Printed secondary sources of transcribed cemeteries exist for most California counties. The California State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) has collected hundreds of such records. Transcripts are housed both at the national DAR (see page 13) and with some local chapters and libraries. They are also available on microfilm through the FHL and the Sutro Library in San Francisco . A complete set of the DAR records (more than 180 volumes) is also in the California Room of the California State Library. Included in this collection are census, newspaper, cemetery, court, Bible, and family records.
Most cemeteries previously located in San Francisco were “moved” out of the city in the 1930s to South San Francisco and Coloma in San Mateo County, for example.
Famous People Buried in California Cemeteries
| County | Name / Date / Cemetery | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alameda | Sullivan, Jeremiah Cutler 10/1/1830 – 10/21/1890 Mountain View Cemetery |
Civil War Union Brigadier General. Born in Madison, Indiana, he entered the United States Navy as a midshipman in 1848, serving on 4 different vessels before resigning 6 years later. |
| Fresno | Otani, Kazuo 6/2/1918 – 7/15/1944 Liberty Veterans Cemetery |
World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He was a member of the famed Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat team during World War II. |
| Kern | Owens, Buck 8/12/1929 – 3/25/2006 Greenlawn Southwest Mortuary and Cemetery |
Country Music Singer, Composer, Entrepreneur. He was born Alvis Edgar Owens Jr. |
| Los Angeles | Albert, Eddie 4/22/1906 – 5/26/2005 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actor. Born Edward Albert Heimberger, he is best remembered for his role of lawyer-turned-farmer ‘Oliver Wendell Douglas’ on the classic television comedy series “Green Acres”. |
| Los Angeles | Allen, Gracie 7/26/1902 – 8/28/1964 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Comedienne, Actress. The wife of George Burns, for more than 30 years she appeared on radio, television, and film, playing a single scatterbrained character, with her husband playing opposite as the straight man. |
| Los Angeles | Allen, Steve 12/26/1921 – 10/30/2000 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Actor, Comedian, Composer, Author. First host of the NBC “Tonight Show. |
| Los Angeles | Andrews, Laverne 7/6/1915 – 5/8/1967 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Jazz Musician. Along with her sisters Maxene and Patty, she was part of the Big Band singing Trio “The Andrews Sisters”. |
| Los Angeles | Arness (Aurness), James (James King) 5/26/1923 – 6/3/2011 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Actor. Best remembered for his role of Marshall Matt Dillon in the long-running TV Western “Gunsmoke” (1955 to 1975). |
| Los Angeles | Astaire, Fred 5/10/1899 – 6/22/1987 Oakwood Memorial Park |
Actor, Entertainer, and Dancer. Born Frederick Austerlitz, Jr, in Omaha, Nebraska, and the son of an Austrian immigrant, he entered show business at the age of 5, working in both vaudeville and Broadway in partnership with his sister, Adele Astaire. |
| Los Angeles | Autry, Gene 9/29/1907 – 10/2/1998 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Actor, Singer. Major League Baseball Team Owner. |
| Los Angeles | Backus, Jim 2/25/1913 – 7/3/1989 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actor. A screen, stage, radio and television figure, he is best known for being the voice of the cartoon character “Mr. Magoo”. |
| Los Angeles | Ball, Lucille 8/6/1911 – 4/26/1989 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Legendary comedic actress, best known for the title role in the hit television sitcom of the 1950’s “I Love Lucy. ” She was born Lucille Desiree Ball was on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. |
| Los Angeles | Barbera, Joe (Joseph Roland) 3/24/1911 – 12/18/2006 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
American animator, cartoon artist, storyboard artist, director, producer and co-founder, together with William Hanna, of Hanna-Barbera. The studio produced well-known cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo as well as the musical film, Charlotte’s Web. |
| Los Angeles | Barker, Bob 12/12/1923 – Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Game Show Host and Television Personality, best remembered as the MC of the television game show, “The Price is Right,” currently the longest-running game show in television history (it started in 1972). In 1999, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Daytime Television, as the show’s executive producer. |
| Los Angeles | Barrymore (Blythe), John Sidney 2/15/1882 – 5/29/1942 Calvary Cemetery |
Actor. He made his stage debut at the age of 18 in one of his father’s productions, but he really wanted to be an artist. |
| Los Angeles | Barrymore, Lionel 4/12/1878 – 11/15/1954 Calvary Cemetery |
Actor. Born on April 12, 1878 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as Lionel Herbert Blythe. |
| Los Angeles | Benji I 5/10/1905 – 5/28/1905 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Animal Actor. Benji I who’s real name was ‘Higgins’ was owned and trained by famed animal trainer and breeder Frank Inn. Inn adopted ‘Higgins’ in 1960 from the Burbank Animal Shelter in Burbank, California. |
| Los Angeles | Benny (Kubelsky), Jack (Benjamin) 2/14/1894 – 12/26/1974 Hillside Memorial Park |
Actor, Producer, Comedian. He is best remembered for his comically inept violin playing (he was actually a very good violin player), his carefully constructed image as a penny-pincher, and for never being older than 39. |
| Los Angeles | Berle, Milton 7/12/1908 – 3/27/2002 Hillside Memorial Park |
Comic Actor whose career spanned show business from vaudeville, silent films, radio, television, to Broadway and Las Vegas. Milton’s career began at the age of 5 on the streets of upper Manhattan, where he did Charlie Chaplin imitations to entertain other kids. |
| Los Angeles | Billingsley, Barbara 12/22/1915 – 10/16/2010 Woodlawn Cemetery |
Actress. Born Barbara Lillian Combes, she attended Los Angeles Junior College in the mid 1930s and then moved to New York City, where she worked as a model. |
| Los Angeles | Blanc (Blank), Mel (Melvin Jerome) 5/30/1908 – 7/10/1989 Hollywood Forever |
Voice Actor. His career spanned radio, movies and television starting in the early 1930’s and even continued after his death into 2000. |
| Los Angeles | Bogart, Humphrey DeForest 12/25/1899 – 1/14/1957 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Actor. Considered a true American icon, he became legendary for his stage and motion picture appearances. |
| Los Angeles | Bolger (Bulcao), Ray (Raymond Wallace) 1/10/1904 – 1/15/1987 Holy Cross Cemetery |
Actor. Born Raymond Wallace Bulcao in Dorchester, Massachusetts, son of James, a house painter, and Anne Bulcao. |
| Los Angeles | Bosley, Tom 10/1/1927 – 10/19/2010 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Actor. He will be remembered for his role as the patriarch Howard Cunningham in the popular TV series “Happy Days” (1974 to 1984). |
| Los Angeles | Bow, Clara 7/29/1905 – 9/27/1965 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Actress. Known as the ‘It Girl,’ she is considered America’s first “Sex Symbol”. |
| Los Angeles | Boyd, William 6/5/1895 – 9/12/1972 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Actor. Born William Lawrence Boyd he is most fondly remembered for his role of Hopalong Cassidy in numerous Westerns movies and the popular 1950s, TV series “Hopalong Cassidy”. |
| Los Angeles | Bradbury, Ray 8/20/1920 – Westwood Memorial Park |
Author. American literary writer famous for such books as “The Martian Chronicles”, “Farenheit 451” and “Something Wicked This Way Comes”. This is his future burial site. |
| Los Angeles | Brennan, Walter 7/25/1894 – 9/21/1974 San Fernando Mission Cemetery |
Actor. The only man to win three Best Supporting Actor Oscar awards, Walter Brennan was probably the most successful character actor in American film. |
| Los Angeles | Burns (Birnbaum), George (Nathan) 1/20/1896 – 3/9/1996 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Comedian, Actor. He gained international fame with wife Gracie Allen. |
| Los Angeles | Burroughs, Edgar Rice 9/1/1875 – 3/19/1950 Burroughs Office Building |
Author, Master of Adventure. Tarzan began with one novel followed by twenty nine others which then transcended into some forty movies including a Disney animated cartoon classic, television programs, a Sunday comic strip, hundreds of comic books and the marketing of Tarzan merchandise. |
| Los Angeles | Candy, John 10/31/1950 – 3/4/1994 Holy Cross Cemetery |
Actor. Born the second son of Sidney James and Evangeline Aker Candy in the Toronto suburb of East York, Canada. |
| Los Angeles | Carpenter, Karen Anne 3/2/1950 – 2/4/1983 Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park |
Singer. Best remembered for her singing partnership with her brother, Richard, as “The Carpenters. |
| Los Angeles | Carradine, David (John Arthur) 12/8/1936 – 6/3/2009 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
American Actor. Best known for his work in the 1970s television series Kung Fu and more recently in the movie Kill Bill. |
| Los Angeles | Chaney, Lon (Leonidas Frank) 4/1/1883 – 8/26/1930 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Actor. He moved from the stage to the screen in 1912, gradually getting more important parts, until his work in the 1919 film ‘The Miracle Worker’ established his reputation as one of the best character actors in Hollywood. |
| Los Angeles | Charles, Ray 9/23/1930 – 6/10/2004 Inglewood Park Cemetery |
Singer, Entertainer. Born Ray Charles Robinson in Albany, Georgia, he was blind by age 7 and an orphan at 15. |
| Los Angeles | Coburn, James 8/31/1928 – 11/18/2002 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actor. He was best known for his roles in Hollywood western films and classic television series, usually as a sidekick. |
| Los Angeles | Cole, Nat King 3/17/1919 – 2/15/1965 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Singer, Actor. During his career he sold over 28 million records for songs including “Sweet Lorraine”, “Ramblin’ Rose”, and “Mona Lisa”, and appeared in 28 motion pictures and television programs, usually playing himself, including “Cat Ballou” (1965), and “Breakfast in Hollywood” (1943). |
| Los Angeles | Connors, Chuck 4/10/1921 – 11/10/1992 San Fernando Mission Cemetery |
Actor. Real name Kevin Joseph Charles Aloysius Connors. |
| Los Angeles | Cooke, Sam 1/22/1931 – 12/11/1964 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Singer, Gospel, Blues, Soul and Pop, Songwriter. Sam Cooke is considered the father of soul music and was immensely popular in both the black and white communities. |
| Los Angeles | Costello, Lou (Louis Francis Cristillo) 3/6/1906 – 3/3/1959 Calvary Cemetery |
Actor, Comedian. He is best remembered for his partnership with Bud Abbott |
| Los Angeles | Crosby, Bing (Harry Lillis) 5/2/1904 – 10/14/1977 Holy Cross Cemetery |
Actor, Singer. He is best remembered for his many “Road” movies with costar Bob Hope, for such classic movies as “Going My Way” (1944), “White Christmas” (1954), and for such songs as “White Christmas” (1942). |
| Los Angeles | Dangerfield (Cohen), Rodney (Jacob) 11/22/1921 – 10/5/2004 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actor, comedian. Born Jacob Cohen, a native of Long Island, New York, Mr. |
| Los Angeles | Davis Jr. , Sammy 12/8/1925 – 5/16/1990 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
American Entertainment Icon. Acclaimed and beloved singer, actor, and dancer. |
| Los Angeles | Davis, Bette (Ruth Elizabeth) 4/5/1908 – 10/6/1989 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Actress. She was born Ruth Elizabeth Davis in Lowell, Massachusetts. |
| Los Angeles | Dee, Sandra 4/23/1942 – 2/20/2005 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Actress. Born Alexandra Zuck, she made her professional debut as a model at age four, was appearing in commercials by age twelve and at the age of fourteen made her first film, “Until they Sail. |
| Los Angeles | DeMille, Cecil (Cecil Blount) B. 8/12/1881 – 1/21/1959 Hollywood Forever Cemetery |
Legendary Movie Producer, Director. Born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, he was renowned for flamboyance and showmanship in his movies for both silent and sound films. |
| Los Angeles | Disney, Walt (Walter Elias) 12/5/1901 – 12/15/1966 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Entertainment Magnate and Film Pioneer. Most remembered for creating Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and a host of other cartoon characters. |
| Los Angeles | Dunne, Irene 12/20/1898 – 9/4/1990 Calvary Cemetery |
Actress. Born on December 20, 1898 in Louisville, Kentucky, she was named Irene Marie Dunne. |
| Los Angeles | Durante, Jimmy 2/10/1893 – 1/29/1980 Holy Cross Cemetery |
Legendary actor, comedian and vaudeville star for over 50 years. He is fondly remembered for his trademark large nose (which he referred to as the Great Schnozzola), gravel voice, and slaughter of words. |
| Los Angeles | Earhart, Amelia 7/24/1897 – 4/20/1905 Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park |
Aviation Pioneer. She was born in Atchison, Kansas. |
| Los Angeles | Elliot (Cohen), Cass (Ellen Naomi) 9/19/1941 – 7/29/1974 Mount Sinai Memorial Park |
Rock Singer. She was a singer for the folk-rock group “Mamas and the Papas,” during the 1960s and early 1970s. |
| Los Angeles | Fairbanks Jr. , Douglas 12/9/1909 – 5/7/2000 Hollywood Forever |
Actor. Movie star of the 1930s and 1940s. |
| Los Angeles | Fairbanks Sr. , Douglas 5/23/1883 – 12/12/1939 Hollywood Forever |
Legendary Motion Picture Actor. Born Douglas Elton Thomas Ulman in Denver, Colorado on May 23, 1883. |
| Los Angeles | Falk, Peter 9/16/1927 – 6/23/2011 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actor. Fondly remembered for his role of Lieutenant Columbo in the popular TV series “Columbo” (1971 to 1978). |
| Los Angeles | Fawcett, Farrah (Mary Farrah) 2/2/1947 – 6/25/2009 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actress. Born Mary Farrah Leni Fawcett, she is best known for her role as Jill Munroe from the television series “Charlie’s Angels. |
| Los Angeles | Fields (Dukenfield), W.C. (William Claude) 1/29/1880 – 12/25/1946 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Actor. He was the oldest of the five children born to Kate Spangler Felton, a native of Philadelphia, and James Dukenfield, an immigrant from England. |
| Los Angeles | Fine, Larry 10/5/1902 – 1/24/1975 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Comedian. He was the frizzy-haired star of the legendary comedy team the <a href=”http://www. |
| Los Angeles | Fitzgerald, Ella 4/25/1918 – 6/15/1996 Inglewood Park Cemetery |
The most celebrated jazz singer of her generation, Ella Fitzgerald was known as the First Lady of Jazz (or Song), for her ability to perform with virtuosity rivaling that of the greatest instrumentalists. She was born to unmarried parents, and before Ella was a year old her father William Fitzgerald, a wagon driver left the family. |
| Los Angeles | Flynn, Errol 6/20/1909 – 10/14/1959 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Actor. He is best remembered for his numerous roles as a swashbuckling hero or a dashing romantic character. |
| Los Angeles | Ford, Glenn 5/1/1916 – 8/30/2006 Woodlawn Cemetery |
Actor. Born Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford in Canada, when he was eight years old his father, a railroad executive, moved his family to Santa Monica, California. |
| Los Angeles | Frank, Anne 6/12/1929 – 3/12/1945 Beth Olam Cemetery |
Holocaust DiariSt. Anne Frank loved American movies and dreamed of becoming a star. |
| Los Angeles | Frawley, William Clement 2/26/1887 – 3/3/1966 San Fernando Mission Cemetery |
Actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Lucille Ball’s gruff landlord ‘Fred Mertz’ on the groundbreaking 1950s television situation comedy “I Love Lucy. |
| Los Angeles | Gable, Clark 2/1/1901 – 11/16/1960 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Actor. Born under the name William Clark Gable, his early life was ordinary, unhappy and confusing. |
| Los Angeles | Gabor, Eva 2/11/1919 – 7/4/1995 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actress. She is best remembered for her role of ‘Lisa Douglas’ in the comic television series, “Green Acres”, in which she plays a city socialite forced to become a rural farmer’s wife when her husband, played by Eddie Albert, decides to abandon his career as a lawyer to return to his roots. |
| Los Angeles | Getty, Estelle 7/25/1923 – 7/22/2008 Hollywood Forever |
Actress. Best known for her role as sassy Italian octogenarian “Sophia Petrillo”, on the hit sitcom “The Golden Girls. |
| Los Angeles | Gibb, Andy 3/5/1958 – 3/10/1988 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Singer. Born Andrew Roy Gibb, he was an 1980s pop icon and musician. |
| Los Angeles | Goldwyn, Samuel 8/17/1879 – 1/31/1974 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Legendary Hollywood producer, mogul. |
| Los Angeles | Grable, Betty (Ruth Elizabeth) 12/18/1916 – 7/2/1973 Inglewood Park Cemetery |
Actress. She was born Ruth Elizabeth Grable in St. |
| Los Angeles | Greene (Green), Lorne (Lyon) 2/12/1915 – 9/11/1987 Hillside Memorial Park |
Actor. He is most remembered for his role as ‘Ben Cartwright’ on the 1960s television western series “Bonanza,” and as ‘Commander Adama’ in the 1970s television science fiction series “Battlestar Galactica. |
| Los Angeles | Griffin, Merv (Mervyn Edward) 7/6/1925 – 8/12/2007 Westwood Memorial Park |
Entertainer, Businessman. Began his career as a singer and actor in movies and on Broadway, then hosted his own television show, “The Merv Griffin Show,” which ran for 20 years. |
| Los Angeles | Gwenn, Edmund 9/26/1877 – 9/6/1959 Chapel Of The Pines Crematory |
Respected stage and motion picture actor of the 1910s, 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s. He is best known for his portrayal of ‘Kris Kringle’ in the 1947 holiday classic “Miracle on 34th Street,” for which he won the Best Actor Oscar. |
| Los Angeles | Hardy, Oliver 1/18/1892 – 8/7/1957 Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park |
Legendary comic actor he found his greatest success when paired with equally legendary Stan Laurel. |
| Los Angeles | Harlow, Jean 3/3/1911 – 6/7/1937 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Actress. While only in the spotlight for ten short years, life was cut short by her untimely death and one can only speculate as to what might have transpired had she had a normal lifespan. |
| Los Angeles | Harmon, Larry ‘Bozo The Clown’ 1/2/1925 – 7/3/2008 Mount Sinai Memorial Park |
Entertainer. Larry Harmon portrayed ‘Bozo the Clown’ for more than fifty years. |
| Los Angeles | Hayes, Gabby (George) 5/7/1885 – 2/9/1969 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
American motion-picture actor of the 1920s through 1950s. Well-known for playing the sidekick role to several star actors, including John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and Randolph Scott. |
| Los Angeles | Hayworth, Rita 10/17/1918 – 5/14/1987 Holy Cross Cemetery |
Actress. Born to Spanish dancer Eduardo Cansino and Volga Hayworth, a Ziegfield Follies showgirl, Rita Hayworth began her career as a dancer in the family act during her adolescence. |
| Los Angeles | Heston (Carter), Charlton (John Charles) 10/4/1923 – 4/5/2008 Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Church Columbarium |
Actor. A Hollywood legend, he became a superstar playing larger-than-life characters, from Moses to Michaelangelo, in big screen epics of the 1950s and 1960s. |
| Los Angeles | Hope, Bob (Leslie Townes) 5/29/1903 – 7/27/2003 Mission San Fernando Rey de España |
Comedian, Actor, Entertainer. Legendary comic performer whose career spanned from the 1930s to the 1990s. |
| Los Angeles | Hope, Dolores 5/27/1909 – 9/19/2011 Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana Cemetery |
Singer, Philanthropist and Humanitarian. Widow of legendary entertainer Bob Hope. |
| Los Angeles | Howard (Horwitz), Curly (Jerome Lester) 10/22/1903 – 1/18/1952 Home of Peace Memorial Park |
Actor. He was the youngest of Jennie and Solomon Horwitz’s five sons, and because of his status as family baby, his mother would often call him “My baby,” leading his four much-older brothers to tease him by calling him Baby and later Babe, a nickname he later grew to like so much he often went by it. |
| Los Angeles | Howard (Horwitz), Moe (Moses Harry) 6/19/1897 – 5/4/1975 Hillside Memorial Park |
Actor. From a very early age he was interested in acting, a talent that was helped along by his voracious memory and capacity for memorizing just about anything, including all of the many books he read and all of the plays he saw when he was skipping school. |
| Los Angeles | Howard (Horwitz), Shemp (Samuel) 3/17/1895 – 11/23/1955 Home of Peace Memorial Park |
Actor, Comedian. He achieved legend status as a member of the “Three Stooges” comedy team. |
| Los Angeles | Huston, John 8/5/1906 – 8/28/1987 Hollywood Forever |
Academy-Award winning motion picture director, actor, and writer of the 1920s thru 1980s. Directed Hollywood film classics such as “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948), “The Asphalt Jungle” (1950), and “The African Queen” (1951). |
| Los Angeles | Jackson, Michael 8/29/1958 – 6/25/2009 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Musician, Entertainer. He was called the “King of Pop,” and is best remembered for his revolutionary videos such as “Thriller” (1982), and “Dangerous” (1991), as well as two Guinness World Records: Most successful entertainer of all time (with 13 Grammy Awards, 13 Number One single hits in a solo career, and sales of over 750 million in albums worldwide), and for having the greatest selling album of all time (“Thriller”). |
| Los Angeles | Jolson (Joelson), Al (Asa) 5/26/1886 – 10/23/1950 Hillside Memorial Park |
Legendary singer, actor, entertainer. Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers of the first half of the 20th century, referred to as the World’s Greatest Entertainer in his time. |
| Los Angeles | Keaton, Buster 10/4/1895 – 2/1/1966 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Legendary motion picture comic actor, writer, producer, and director of the 1910s thru 1960s. Born on October 4, 1895, in Piqua, Kansas, as Joseph Francis Keaton. |
| Los Angeles | Knotts, Don 7/21/1924 – 2/24/2006 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actor, Comedian. Born Jesse Donald Knotts in Morgantown, West Virginia, he is best known for his roles as ‘Deputy Barney Fife’ in the 1960s television series the “Andy Griffith Show,” and as landlord ‘Ralph Furley’ from the late 1970s television situation comedy series “Three’s Company. |
| Los Angeles | Korman, Harvey Herschel 2/15/1927 – 5/29/2008 Woodlawn Cemetery |
Actor, Comedian. Born the son of Ellen Belcher and Cyril Korman in Chicago, Illinois. |
| Los Angeles | Ladd, Alan 9/3/1913 – 1/29/1964 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Actor. He is best remembered for his 1953 role of ‘Shane’ in the western movie of the same name. |
| Los Angeles | LaLanne, Jack 9/26/1914 – 1/23/2011 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Fitness, exercise, nutritional expert, and motivational speaker. Known as “the godfather of fitness”, he published numerous books on fitness and hosted a fitness television show between 1951 and 1985. |
| Los Angeles | Lamour, Dorothy 12/10/1914 – 9/22/1996 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Actress of Motion Pictures and Television. Born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton in New Orleans, Louisiana; daughter of Carmen Louise and John Watson Slaton. |
| Los Angeles | L’Amour, Louis 3/22/1908 – 6/10/1988 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Western NoveliSt. He was born Louis Dearborn LaMoore in Jamestown, North Dakota, the last of seven children to a veterinarian father and a teacher mother. |
| Los Angeles | Lancaster, Burt 11/2/1913 – 10/20/1994 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actor. He was born Burton Stephen Lancaster one of five children in New York City to a postal worker. |
| Los Angeles | Landon (Orowitz), Michael (Eugene Maurice) 10/31/1936 – 7/1/1991 Hillside Memorial Park |
Actor, Writer, Producer, Director. Born in Forest Hills, New York, to Eli Maurice Orowitz and Peggy O’Neal Orowitz. |
| Los Angeles | Laughton, Charles 7/1/1899 – 12/15/1962 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Actor. Appeared on stage and in motion pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s. |
| Los Angeles | Laurel, Stan 6/16/1890 – 2/23/1965 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Legendary comic actor, he found his greatest success when paired with equally legendary Oliver Hardy |
| Los Angeles | Lee, Peggy 5/26/1920 – 1/21/2002 Westwood Memorial Park |
Singer, Songwriter and Actress. Best remembered for songs “Fever,” “Lover,” “Big Spender,” and a host of other songs. |
| Los Angeles | Leigh, Janet 7/6/1927 – 10/3/2004 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actress. Born Jeanette Helen Morrison, she was discovered when retired film star Norma Shearer saw her picture at a ski resort. |
| Los Angeles | Lemmon, Jack 2/8/1925 – 6/27/2001 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actor. Throughout his 47 years as an actor, he worked on 50 films, earned 8 Academy Awards nominations, and won the Oscar twice. |
| Los Angeles | Liberace (Wladziu Valentino) 5/16/1919 – 2/4/1987 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
PianiSt. He was born Wladziu (Polish for Walter) Liberace in West Allis, Wisconsin to immigrant Italian and Polish parents one of four children. |
| Los Angeles | Lloyd, Harold 4/20/1893 – 3/8/1971 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Legendary, innovative comic actor in many motion pictures of the 1910s through the 1950s. Born in Nebraska, Harold’s career began at the age of 12. |
| Los Angeles | Lombard, Carole 10/6/1908 – 1/16/1942 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Actress. Born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, one of three children, her parents separated and with her mother she moved to California. |
| Los Angeles | Lorre (Loewenstein), Peter (Laszlo) 6/26/1904 – 3/23/1964 Hollywood Forever |
Beloved character actor, whose style and accent made him popular with his fans. Born Laszlo Loewenstein in Rosenberg, Austria-Hungary (now Ruzomberok, Slovakia), his parents were Alois and Elvira Lorre. |
| Los Angeles | Lugosi, Bela 10/20/1882 – 8/16/1956 Holy Cross Cemetery |
Legendary stage and screen actor of the 1910s through 1950s. He is most widely identified with his title role in the movie “Dracula” (1931). |
| Los Angeles | MacDonald, Jeanette 6/18/1903 – 1/14/1965 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Actress and Singer. She is best remembered for her partnership with singer <a href=”http://www. |
| Los Angeles | MacMurray, Fred 8/30/1908 – 11/5/1991 Holy Cross Cemetery |
Actor. One of the most underrated actors of the 20th century, Fred MacMurray played bemused husband, unrepentant heel and perfect father with panache and style. |
| Los Angeles | Malden, Karl 3/22/1912 – 7/1/2009 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actor. A versatile performer mainly in supporting roles, he appeared in nearly one hundred motion pictures, television programs and theatre productions since the late 1930’s. |
| Los Angeles | Mansfield, Jayne 4/19/1933 – 6/29/1967 Hollywood Forever |
Actress. Born Vera Jayne Palmer in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, her family moved to Dallas, Texas, after the death of her father to a heart attack and the remarriage of her mother. |
| Los Angeles | Martin (Crocetti), Dean (Dino Paul) 6/7/1917 – 12/25/1995 Westwood Memorial Park |
Legendary Singer, Actor, and Comedian. Born Dino Paul Crocetti in Stuebenville, Ohio. |
| Los Angeles | Marx, Chico 3/22/1887 – 10/11/1961 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Vaudeville, stage, and motion picture actor/comedian/entertainer. One of the legendary Marx Brothers along with Groucho, Harpo, Zeppo, and Gummo. |
| Los Angeles | Marx, Groucho (Julius) 10/2/1890 – 8/19/1977 Eden Memorial Park |
Legendary Actor, Comedian. Groucho was probably the best known of the Marx Brothers comedy team. |
| Los Angeles | Matthau, Walter 10/1/1920 – 7/1/2000 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actor. Born Walter John Matthow in New York City to Russian immigrants and grew up on the Lower East Side. |
| Los Angeles | Mayer, Louis B. 7/4/1885 – 10/29/1957 Home of Peace Memorial Park |
Motion Picture Executive. As Vice President in charge of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from its inception until 1951, he was the mightiest of Hollywood moguls. |
| Los Angeles | McDaniel, Hattie 6/10/1895 – 10/26/1952 Angelus Rosedale Cemetery |
Actress. She made Hollywood history as the first African-American to win an Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actress in “Gone With the Wind” (1939). |
| Los Angeles | McDaniel, Hattie 6/10/1895 – 10/26/1952 Hollywood Forever |
Actress. She made Hollywood history as the first African-American to win an Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actress in “Gone With the Wind” (1939). |
| Los Angeles | McGavin, Darren 5/7/1922 – 2/25/2006 Hollywood Forever |
Actor. Character actor seen in movies and television. |
| Los Angeles | Meadows (Cotter), Audrey 2/8/1926 – 2/3/1996 Holy Cross Cemetery |
Actress. Born to Episcopal missionary parents in WuChang, China. |
| Los Angeles | Memorial to the Six Million – Mount Sinai Memorial Park |
Holocaust Memorial. This powerful commemoration of the Nazi genocide can be found in Mount Sinai Memorial Park, nestled at the foot of Mt. Lee in the Hollywood Hills. On a field of gravel, some two-dozen cement slabs bear the names of concentration camps, ghettos, and massacre sites where victims of the Holocaust perished. |
| Los Angeles | Mix, Tom 1/6/1880 – 10/12/1940 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Cowboy Actor. His movie career spanned 26 years, from 1909 through 1935. |
| Los Angeles | Monroe (Baker), Marilyn (Norma Jean) 6/1/1926 – 8/5/1962 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actress. In a career that spanned 16 years, with no acting experience and through the promotion of her sex symbol image, Marilyn became a Hollywood media star and a legend while making 29 movies. |
| Los Angeles | Montalban, Ricardo 11/25/1920 – 1/14/2009 Holy Cross Cemetery |
Actor. Born Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino in Mexico City, Mexico the son of Spanish immigrants Ricarda Merino and Jenaro Montalbán. |
| Los Angeles | Moore, Clayton 9/14/1914 – 12/28/1999 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Actor. Best remembered for his role of “The Lone Ranger” on the television series of the same name. |
| Los Angeles | Nelson, Harriet 7/18/1909 – 10/2/1994 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Singer/Actress. Born Peggy Sue Snyder to actor parents in Des Moines, Iowa. |
| Los Angeles | Nelson, Ozzie (Oswald George) 3/20/1906 – 6/3/1975 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Actor. Fondly remembered as the kindly father in the classic 1950s-60s television series “The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet. |
| Los Angeles | Nelson, Ricky (Eric Hilliard) 5/8/1940 – 12/31/1985 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Singer and Actor. Eric Hilliard Nelson was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, to Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. |
| Los Angeles | O’Brien, Pat (William Joseph) 11/11/1899 – 10/15/1983 Holy Cross Cemetery |
Actor, best remembered for his tough Irish character roles, often playing an Irish cop, an Irish priest, or an Irish descended soldier. His Irish brogue was not natural, yet it always seemed to charm his movie audiences. |
| Los Angeles | O’Connor, Carroll 8/2/1924 – 6/21/2001 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actor. He is best known for playing Archie Bunker on “All In The Family”. |
| Los Angeles | Orbison, Roy 4/23/1936 – 12/6/1988 Westwood Memorial Park |
Singer, Songwriter. He is best remembered for his songs, “Oh, Pretty Woman,” and “Only the Lonely. |
| Los Angeles | Page (Peal), LaWanda (Alberta) 10/19/1920 – 9/14/2002 Inglewood Park Cemetery |
Actress. Best known for her role as Aunt Esther Anderson on “Sanford And Son”, she appeared in many films. |
| Los Angeles | Page, Bettie 4/22/1923 – 12/11/2008 Westwood Memorial Park |
Model, American Folk Figure. Called variously the “Queen of Pinups”, the “Queen of Curves”, and the “Dark Angel”, she was the subject of thousands of photographs during and shortly after the Korean War years years. |
| Los Angeles | Patton, George Smith 11/11/1885 – 12/21/1945 San Gabriel Cemetery |
United States World War II Army General. He was born at Lake Vineyard Ranch what is now San Marino, California. |
| Los Angeles | Peck, Gregory 4/5/1916 – 6/12/2003 Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels |
Actor. He was a lanky handsome movie star whose long career included such classics as “Roman Holiday,” “Spellbound,” and his Academy Award winner “To Kill a Mockingbird. |
| Los Angeles | Pete the Pup – Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park |
Cause of death: Poisoned-unproven |
| Los Angeles | Pickford, Mary April 9, 1892 – 5/29/1979 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Legendary Actress. Born Gladys Louise Smith on April 8, 1892 in Toronto Canada. |
| Los Angeles | Pleshette, Suzanne 1/31/1937 – 1/19/2008 Hillside Memorial Park |
Actress. Born in Brooklyn, New York the only child of Eugene and Geraldine Kaplan Pleshette, she entered the High School of the Performing Arts at twelve, and attended Syracuse University with a drama major. |
| Los Angeles | Power Jr. , Tyrone 5/5/1914 – 11/15/1958 Hollywood Forever |
Actor. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he was one of the most popular swashbuckling movie stars of the 1930s and 1940s. |
| Los Angeles | Rawls, Lou 12/1/1933 – 1/6/2006 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Grammy award-winning soul singer, humanitarian and actor. Velvet-voiced singer with a four-octave range known for such signature hits as “You’ll Never Find (Another Love Like Mine),” “Lady Love” and “Love is a Hurtin’ Thing. |
| Los Angeles | Reed, Donna 1/27/1921 – 1/14/1986 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actress. Born Donnabelle Mullenger, she was attending Los Angeles City College when she gave an impressive screen test for MGM Studios and was signed to a contract. |
| Los Angeles | Reeves, George Bessolo 1/5/1914 – 6/16/1959 Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum |
Actor, he is best remembered for his role of Superman in the 1950s television series of the same name. Born George Keefer Brewer in Woolstock, Iowa, to Don and Helen Lescher Brewer. |
| Los Angeles | Ritter, John 9/17/1948 – 9/11/2003 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Actor. A figure in television and motion pictures, he is fondly remembered for his role in the television comedy series “Three’s Company” and “8 Simple Rules for Dating my Daughter. |
| Los Angeles | Robinson (Smith), Sugar Ray (Walker) 5/3/1920 – 4/12/1989 Inglewood Park Cemetery |
Welterweight and 5-time Middleweight Champion of the World. Robinson is hailed by fans and fighters alike as being, pound for pound, the greatest fighter in History. |
| Los Angeles | Rogers, Ginger 7/16/1911 – 4/25/1995 Oakwood Memorial Park |
Actress, Singer. Born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri, she was given the name “Ginger” by her cousin, who could not pronounce “Virginia” correctly. |
| Los Angeles | Romero, Cesar 2/15/1907 – 1/1/1994 Inglewood Park Cemetery |
Grandson of Cuban patriot Jose Marti. One of Hollywood’s handsome leading men in the 1940s and ’50s. |
| Los Angeles | Russell, Rosalind 6/4/1907 – 11/28/1976 Holy Cross Cemetery |
Actress. Born One of seven childen to Clara and James Edward Russell in Waterbury, Connecticut. |
| Los Angeles | Ryan, Irene 10/17/1902 – 4/26/1973 Woodlawn Cemetery |
American vaudeville, stage, motion picture, and television actress of the 1920s thru 1960s. Gained international fame while playing the role of ‘Granny’ on the 1960s TV series “The Beverly Hillbillies. |
| Los Angeles | Savalas, Telly 1/21/1922 – 1/22/1994 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Motion Picture and Television Actor. He was born Terry Aristotle Savalas in Garden City, New York, to Greek immigrant parents. |
| Los Angeles | Scott, George C. 10/18/1927 – 9/22/1999 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actor. Whether Buck Turgidson in “Dr. |
| Los Angeles | Selznick, David O. 5/10/1902 – 6/22/1965 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Legendary motion picture producer, he is best remembered for producing the landmark 1939 film, “Gone With the Wind,” which earned him an Oscar for Best Picture (the picture also won a total of 8 Oscars plus two special awards). Selznick also won the 1940 Oscar for Best Picture, for the film “Rebecca,” being the first producer to win Best Picture Oscars two years in a row. |
| Los Angeles | Shaw, Artie 5/23/1910 – 12/30/2004 Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park |
Musician. Born Arthur Arshawsky, he helped define the big band and swing music eras. |
| Los Angeles | Sheldon, Sidney 2/11/1917 – 1/30/2007 Westwood Memorial Park |
Best-selling Novelist, Film and Television Screenplay Writer. He is best remembered for creating such popular shows as “I Dream of Jeannie” (1965-1970) and for writing the novels “The Other Side of Midnight” (1973) and “Rage of Angels” (1980). |
| Los Angeles | Shore, Dinah (Frances Rose) 2/29/1916 – 2/24/1994 Hillside Memorial Park |
Singer, actress, television hostess. Fondly remembered for her long career on stage, screen, TV, and radio. |
| Los Angeles | Silver (Cloud) (White) 4/20/1905 – 5/12/1905 Hudkin Stable Grounds |
Equine Actor. He starred as Silver in “The Lone Ranger” Television Series from 1949 to 1954, and was thought to be one of the most popular horses of all the western heroes. |
| Los Angeles | Skelton (Skelton), Red (Richard) 7/18/1913 – 9/17/1997 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Actor, Comedian. As a vaudevillian, member of the MGM pantheon of film stars and then a television pioneer, he parlayed his comedic genius and gentle, if sometimes lonely, soul into a legendary career spanning seven decades, and had a talent for characterization, whether in film (“The Fuller Brush Man”) or television (“San Fernando Red,” “Freddie the Freeloader,” “Clem Kadiddlehopper. |
| Los Angeles | Spelling, Aaron 4/22/1923 – 6/23/2006 Hillside Memorial Park |
Television Producer. A graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, he took the name Jerry Lane during World War II. |
| Los Angeles | Stack, Robert 1/13/1919 – 5/14/2003 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actor. Born in Los Angeles, California to James Langford Stack and Elizabeth Modini Wood Stack. |
| Los Angeles | Steiger, Rod 4/14/1925 – 7/9/2002 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Actor. Born Rodney Stephen Steiger, his parents had a song-and-dance act and following their divorce when he was a year old, he was raised by his mother and stepfather. |
| Los Angeles | Stewart, James ‘Jimmy’ 5/20/1908 – 7/2/1997 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Actor, American Icon. James Stewart was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, where he had an ideal childhood with encouraging and supporting parents. |
| Los Angeles | Switzer, Carl ‘Alfalfa’ 8/7/1927 – 1/21/1959 Hollywood Forever |
Actor. He is best remembered for his role of ‘Alfalfa’ in the “Our Gang” series of comedies. |
| Los Angeles | Tate, Sharon Marie 1/24/1943 – 8/9/1969 Holy Cross Cemetery |
Actress/Manson Victim. Sharon Tate was the daughter of Army intelligence officer Paul and housewife <a href=”http://www. |
| Los Angeles | Taylor, Elizabeth 2/27/1932 – 3/23/2011 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Actress, Humanitarian. One of the most glamorous stars to emerge during Hollywood’s fabled “Golden Age”. |
| Los Angeles | Thomas, William ‘Buckwheat’ 3/12/1931 – 10/10/1980 Inglewood Park Cemetery |
One of the most popular of “The Little Rascals”. Thomas played Buckwheat in 93 “Our Gang” films, beginning in 1934. |
| Los Angeles | Torme, Mel 9/13/1925 – 6/5/1999 Westwood Memorial Park |
Jazz singer, Actor, Composer, Author. Nicknamed “The Velvet Fog,” he was a performer almost from the beginning and always said his introduction and love of Jazz was acquired from his birthplace and exposure to music in the black section of Chicago. |
| Los Angeles | Toto (Terry) 11/17/1935 – 9/1/1945 Hollywood Forever Cemetery |
Canine movie star. Carl Spitz spent many years in Hollywood not only readying dogs for films but also training “Dogs for Defense” during World War II. |
| Los Angeles | Tracy, Spencer 4/5/1900 – 6/10/1967 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Actor. Legendary, award-winning American stage and motion picture figure of the 1930s through the 1960s. |
| Los Angeles | Twain (Clemens), Mark (Samuel Langhorne) 11/30/1835 – 4/21/1910 Eternal Valley Memorial Park |
Author, HumoriSt. He is remembered not only for authoring many books but also for his humorist maxims, quotations and opinions. |
| Los Angeles | Valens, Ritchie 5/13/1941 – 2/3/1959 San Fernando Mission Cemetery |
Rock Musician, Singer. Born Richard Steven Valenzuela in a largely Hispanic community north of Los Angeles known as the San Fernando Valley, his father was a devotee of flamenco music and blues and instilled his love of music to Ritchie. |
| Los Angeles | Valentino, Rudolph 5/6/1895 – 8/23/1926 Hollywood Forever |
Actor. Born Rodolfo Alfonzo Raffaelo Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antonguolla in the small town of Castellaneta, Puglia, Italy, he originally had no intention of becoming an actor. |
| Los Angeles | Van Iersel, Louis (Ludovicus) 10/19/1893 – 6/9/1987 Sierra Madre Pioneer Cemetery |
World War I Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. As an immigrant from The Netherlands, Van Iersel was aboard a British vessel bound for the United States in February, 1917, when the ship was torpedoed by a German submarine. |
| Los Angeles | Webb, Jack 4/2/1920 – 12/23/1982 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) |
Actor. He is best remembered for his role of Police Sgt. Joe Friday on the television series “Dragnet” in the 1960s and 1970s. Born John Randolph “Jack” Webb in Santa Monica, California, he grew up in the poor section of Los Angeles in a rooming house that his mother ran. |
| Los Angeles | Welk, Lawrence 3/11/1903 – 5/17/1992 Holy Cross Cemetery |
Jazz Bandleader, Musician. He is best remembered for his television show, “The Lawrence Welk Show” which ran for 27 years, from 1955 to 1982. |
| Los Angeles | Wilder, Billy 6/22/1906 – 3/27/2002 Westwood Memorial Park |
Legendary, Academy-Award winning motion picture writer, director, and producer of the 1920s thru 1980s. Won Oscars for the classic films “The Lost Weekend” (1945), “Sunset Blvd. |
| Los Angeles | Wilson, Carl 12/21/1946 – 2/6/1998 Westwood Memorial Park |
Legendary singer/songwriter with the highly influencial 1960s-70s pop-rock band The Beach Boys. He sang lead vocal on the timeless classic “God Only Knows,” among many other popular songs. |
| Los Angeles | Winters, Shelley 8/18/1920 – 1/14/2006 Hillside Memorial Park |
Actress. Born Shirley Schrift in East St. |
| Los Angeles | Wood, Natalie 7/20/1938 – 11/29/1981 Westwood Memorial Park |
Actress. Most remembered for her role of Susan Walker in “Miracle on 34th Street” (1947), a Christmas classic movie. |
| Los Angeles | Woodson, Ali Ollie 9/12/1951 – 5/30/2010 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Singer. He was lead vocalist for the legendary Motown musical group The Temptations from 1984 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1996. |
| Los Angeles | Wyatt, Jane 8/12/1910 – 10/20/2006 San Fernando Mission Cemetery |
Actress. Best remembered as devoted wife and mother ‘Margaret Anderson’ on the television series “Father Knows Best,” opposite Robert Young from 1954 to 1960. |
| Los Angeles | Young, Loretta (Gretchen) 1/6/1913 – 8/12/2000 Holy Cross Cemetery |
Actress. Loretta Young began her career at the age of 4 as a child extra in silent films. |
| Los Angeles | Young, Robert 2/22/1907 – 7/21/1998 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) |
Actor. In a career that lasted over fifty years, Robert Young performed on stage, screen and radio, appearing in some 100 movies before making a successful transition to television. |
| Mendocino | Seabiscuit 4/16/1905 – 5/17/1947 Ridgewood Ranch |
Racehorse and American Folk Animal. This champion thoroughbred horse famous during the Great Depression was literally forgotten until he became the subject of a book, “Seabiscuit: An American Legend,” followed in 2003 by a Universal Studio film “Seabiscuit. |
| Mono | Garfield, James A. 11/19/1831 – 9/19/1881 Bodie Cemetery – Miners Union Section |
This monument was originally carved to memorialize William Bodey, founder of the town of Bodie. But, when President Garfield was assassinated, the fickle public changed the inscription, turning it into a tribute to Garfield instead. |
| Monterey | Steinbeck, John Ernst 2/27/1902 – 12/20/1968 Garden of Memories Memorial Park |
Author. He was a prolific writer who wrote scores of novels, short stories, anthologies and covered World War II as a war correspondent for the “New York Tribune”. |
| Orange | Carpenter, Karen Anne 3/2/1950 – 2/4/1983 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Cypress) |
Singer. Best remembered for her singing partnership with her brother, Richard, as “The Carpenters. “ |
| Orange | Hanna, William 7/14/1910 – 3/22/2001 Ascension Cemetery |
Legendary animation mogul. He is the ‘Hanna’ in ‘Hanna and Barbera’ who are responsible for animated shows such as “The Flinstones” and “The Jetsons. |
| Orange | Nixon (Ryan), Pat (Thelma) 3/16/1912 – 6/22/1993 Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace |
Presidential First Lady. The wife of US President Richard Nixon. |
| Orange | Nixon, Richard Milhous 1/9/1913 – 4/22/1994 Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace |
37th United States President. Born in California. |
| Orange | Ten Boom, Corrie 4/15/1892 – 4/15/1983 Fairhaven Memorial Park |
Author. Born Cornelia Johanna Arnolda ten Boom, he many works include “The Hiding Place. |
| Orange | Wayne (Morrison), John (Marion) 5/26/1907 – 6/11/1979 Pacific View Memorial Park |
Actor. He is noted mostly for his military and cowboy roles, and an American Icon. |
| Riverside | Bono, Sonny (Salvatore Phillip) 2/16/1935 – 1/5/1998 Desert Memorial Park |
Entertainer, US Congressman. Until the early 1960s, he had a job delivering meat along the Sunset Strip in California. |
| Riverside | Capra, Frank 5/18/1897 – 9/3/1991 Coachella Valley Public Cemetery |
Legendary motion picture director, writer, and producer of the 1920s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s. Three-time Oscar winner for his direction on several timeless classic movies. |
| Riverside | Hudson, Rock 11/17/1925 – 10/2/1985 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Cathedral City) |
Actor. Born Roy Harold Scherer Jr. |
| Riverside | Memorial, American Veterans – Riverside National Cemetery |
Veteran’s Memorial is dedicated to the memory of all American Veterans in acknowledgement to the sacrifice and service to their country. Erected by the Veterans and Patriots of California in May 2000, the memorial also stands for those Americans whom lost love ones in the service of their country. |
| Riverside | Memorial, National Medal of Honor – Riverside National Cemetery |
Dedicated in 1999, Riverside National cemetery is home to one of four sites recognized as a National Medal of Honor Memorial Site. The memorial’s black marble walls feature a list of each conflict with the names engraved in gold of all medal recipients. |
| Riverside | Memorial, National Pow/Mia – Riverside National Cemetery |
The Prisoner of War/Missing in Action National Memorial was designated as a national memorial by the U.S. Congress through Public Law 108-454 on December 10, 2004. Vietnam veteran Lewis Lee Millett Jr. , sculpted the bronze statue which depicts an American serviceman on his knees with hands bound by his captors. |
| Riverside | Powell, William 7/29/1892 – 3/5/1984 Desert Memorial Park |
Actor. His birth and boyhood home until age ten was Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
| Riverside | Shore, Dinah 2/29/1916 – 2/24/1994 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Cathedral City) |
Singer, actress, television hostess. Fondly remembered for her long career on stage, screen, TV, and radio. |
| Riverside | Sinatra, Frank (Francis Albert) 12/12/1915 – 5/14/1998 Desert Memorial Park |
Entertainer. Regarded by many as the greatest popular singer of the 20th Century, he was nicknamed “The Voice”, “Ol Blue Eyes” and “Chairman of the Board”. |
| Riverside | Wyman, Jane 1/5/1917 – 9/10/2007 Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Cathedral City) |
Academy Award-Winning Actress. Born Sarah Jane Mayfield, for many years she gave her birthdate as January 4, 1914 to make herself appear older, enabling her to work full time while still a minor. |
| Sacramento | California Peace Officers’ Memorial – California Peace Officers’ Memorial Monument |
Located inside the east entrance of the California State Capitol, the monument was dedicated in 1988, to honor California’s peace officers who gave their lives serving the citizens of the state. The memorial which has three bronze figures represent the more than 1,400 peace officers who have died in the line-of-duty since California became a state. |
| San Bernardino | Evans (Smith), Dale (Frances Octavia) 10/31/1912 – 2/7/2001 Sunset Hills Memorial Park |
Actress, singer, writer of songs and books. She was born Lucille Wood Smith in Uvalde, Texas to a farmer father who also operated a hardware and general store in nearby Italy, Texas. |
| San Bernardino | Rhoads, Randy 12/6/1956 – 3/19/1982 Mountain View Cemetery |
Musician. A guitar prodigy who started at the age of six and taught at his mother’s school during his professional career, he was the original guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne’s band and he is famous for combining classical and heavy metal together. |
| San Bernardino | Rogers (Slye), Roy (Leonard Franklin) 11/5/1911 – 7/6/1998 Sunset Hills Memorial Park |
Actor, Singer. He was born Leonard Franklin Slye in Cincinnati, Ohio to a musical family. |
| San Diego | Battle of Iwo Jima Memorial – South Mesa, Camp Pendleton CA |
Memorial. Located on the South Mesa area of US Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, the monument is dedicated to the 6821 US forces whom died during the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima, February 19 to March 26, 1945. |
| San Diego | Chosin Reservoir Battle Memorial – South Mesa, Camp Pendleton CA |
Memorial. In a formal ceremony September 15, 2010, US Marine Corps Commandant General James T. Conway dedicated the Korean War battle memorial on the 60th anniversary to the day that the 1st Division Marines from Camp Pendleton landed in Korea. |
| San Diego | Kroc, Ray 10/5/1902 – 1/14/1984 El Camino Memorial Park |
Businessman, Baseball Team Owner. He bought the McDonald’s fast food chain from its original founders, and turned it into the multi-billion dollar industry it is today. |
| San Diego | McDonalds Memorial – Southwestern College Education Center |
Memorial for all the people killed in the July 18, 1984 massacre. On that date a man named James Oliver Huberty walked into the McDonald’s in San Ysidro, California and opened fire with three semi-automatic weapons into the busy restaurant killing 21 people and injuring 19 more, the youngest six months and the oldest 74. |
| San Diego | Monsoor, Michael Anthony 4/5/1981 – 9/29/2006 Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery |
Iraq War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Petty Officer 2nd Class Monsoor sacrificed his life to save his comrades by throwing himself on top of a grenade that Iraqi insurgents tossed into their sniper hideout. |
| San Diego | Salk, Jonas 10/28/1914 – 6/23/1995 El Camino Memorial Park |
Medical Pioneer. His parents, Dora and Daniel, were Russian-Jewish immigrants who didn’t have a lot of education but who wanted to make sure their children got the education they hadn’t. |
| San Diego | Schirra Jr. , Walter M.’Wally’ 3/12/1923 – 5/3/2007 Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery |
American Astronaut. He was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury, America’s first effort to put men in space. |
| San Diego | Stone, Milburn 7/5/1904 – 6/12/1980 El Camino Memorial Park |
Character Actor. He labored and toiled for twenty years with background parts, literally appearing in hundreds of uncredited character roles as clerks, reporters, sailors, detectives, convicts, robbers and henchmen. |
| San Diego | United States Navy Leyte Gulf Memorial – Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery |
In memory of the 525 men who died when their ships were sunk at the Battle of Leyte Gulf during the liberation of the Philippine Islands on October 25, 1944. It list the names of the men and US Navy ships lost during that WW II Pacific Theater conflict. |
| San Francisco | Moore, Albert 12/26/1862 – 9/14/1916 San Francisco National Cemetery |
Boxer Rebellion Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Born in Merced, California, he served as a Private in the 1st Regiment, US Marine Corps. |
| San Francisco | Westermark, Axel 4/8/1875 – 5/7/1911 San Francisco National Cemetery |
Boxer Rebellion Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Born in Bergo, Finland, he served in the United States Navy during the military operations in China. |
| San Mateo | DiMaggio, Joe (Joseph Paul) 11/25/1914 – 3/8/1999 Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery |
Professional baseball player. He was born Giuseppe (Joseph) Paolo (Paul) DiMaggio, the eighth of nine children to Sicilian immigrants Giuseppe and Rosalie DiMaggio in the small fishing village of Martinez, California. |
| San Mateo | Earp, Wyatt 3/19/1848 – 1/13/1929 Hills of Eternity Memorial Park |
American Frontier Law Officer. Born in Monmouth, Illinois, he grew up on a farm in Iowa. |
| San Mateo | Hearst, William Randolph 4/29/1863 – 8/14/1951 Cypress Lawn Memorial Park |
American journalist, patron of the arts and media magnate, best known as the founder of the Hearst Corporation and builder of Hearst Castle, at San Simeon, California. William Randolph Hearst was born on April 29, 1863 in San Francisco, California, the only child of George and Phoebe Hearst. |
| San Mateo | Kilbride, Percy 7/16/1886 – 12/11/1964 Golden Gate National Cemetery |
Actor. Born in San Francisco, California, his first introduction to the theatre was working as an usher at the Central Theatre in that city at the age eleven. |
| San Mateo | Lane, Charles 1/26/1905 – 7/9/2007 Home of Peace Cemetery and Emanu-El Mausoleum |
Actor. He was a prolific character actor who appeared in films and television shows, during a career which spanned more than seven decades. |
| San Mateo | Laurel Hill Monument – Cypress Lawn Memorial Park |
This monument memorializes Laurel Hill Cemetery, which existed in San Francisco from 1854 to 1940. When to cemetery was closed, the remains were brought here, and now, 35,000 of San Francisco’s pioneer dead lie in underground vaults a few paces north of this tablet. |
| San Mateo | Nimitz, Chester W. 2/24/1885 – 2/20/1966 Golden Gate National Cemetery |
United States Navy Fleet Admiral. Born in Fredericksburg, Texas, he was accepted into the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland in 1901 and graduated in 1905. |
| San Mateo | Strauss, Levi 2/26/1829 – 9/26/1902 Home of Peace Cemetery and Emanu-El Mausoleum |
German-American clothier, best known for inventing of the quintessential American garment – the blue jean. He was born Loeb Strauss in Buttenheim, Bavaria (now Germany) on February 26, 1829, the youngest son of a Jewish dry goods peddler. |
| Santa Barbara | Parker, Fess 8/16/1924 – 3/18/2010 Santa Barbara Cemetery |
Actor. Born Fess Elisha Parker, Junior in Fort Worth Texas, the son of Fess Parker, Senior, at twenty he joined the US Navy but was deemed too tall at almost six and a half feet to qualify as a pilot. |
| Santa Clara | Ford, Ernie (Ernest Jennings) ‘Tennessee Ernie’ 2/13/1919 – 10/17/1991 Alta Mesa Memorial Park |
Singer, television host, radio announcer. He was born in Bristol, Tennesee, sang in the school choirs and played the trombone in the band. |
| Santa Clara | Jobs, Steve (Steven Paul) 2/24/1955 – 10/5/2011 Alta Mesa Memorial Park |
American Entrepreneur, Inventor, and Business Magnate. At the time of this death, he was one of the most well-known and respected business entrepreneurs in the world. |
| Santa Clara | Memorial, Overland Pioneers – Oak Hill Memorial Park |
This is a tribute to the early Overland Pioneers that settled in the Santa Clara Valley. Members of the Stephens, Townsend, Murphy Party of 1844 and Members of the Donner Party of 1846 |
| Santa Clara | Stanford, Leland 3/9/1824 – 6/21/1893 Stanford Family Mausoleum |
19th Century politician and railroad tycoon. Best known as the founder of Stanford University. |
| Sonoma | London, Jack 1/12/1876 – 11/22/1916 Jack London State Historic Park |
Author. The most successful writer in America in the early 20th Century, his stories of men and animals against the environment, and survival against hardships were drawn mainly from his own experience. |
| Sonoma | Ripley, Robert Leroy 12/25/1893 – 5/27/1949 Oddfellows Lawn Cemetery |
Cartoonist, Author, Radio Broadcaster. Best remembered for creating the cartoon series, “Ripley’s Believe It or Not. |
| Sonoma | Schulz, Charles Monroe 11/26/1922 – 2/12/2000 Pleasant Hills Cemetery |
CartooniSt. He was the creator of the enormously popular “Peanuts” comic strip, as well as the characters of ‘Charlie Brown’, “Snoopy”, Linus Van Pelt” and others. |
| Ventura | Reagan, Nancy 7/6/1921 – Ronald W. Reagan Presidential Library |
Former actress, First Lady to Ronald Reagan, the former 33rd Governor of California and 40th President of the United States. She was born in New York City in 1921. |
| Ventura | Reagan, Ronald Wilson 2/6/1911 – 6/5/2004 Ronald W. Reagan Presidential Library |
40th United States President, Actor. Considered by many historians and political scientists as the one individual who most helped end the Cold War between the Western world and the Soviet Union and its allies (although this event occurred ten months after he left office). |
California Cemeteries
| Cemetery Name | Cemetery City |
|---|---|
| County Cemetery (a “Potter’s field”), San Leandro | Alameda County |
| Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum | Altadena – Octavia Butler |
| Altaville Catholic Cemetery, Angels Camp | Angels Camp |
| Grangeville Cemetery, Armona | Armona |
| Bakersfield National Cemetery, Arvin | Arvin |
| Avalon Cemetery | Avalon – Doodles Weaver |
| Oak Hill Cemetery | Ballard – John Forsythe |
| Bangor Cemetery, Bangor | Bangor |
| San Gorgonio Memorial Park | Banning |
| Mountain View Cemetery (Beaumont) | Beaumont |
| Stewart Sunnyslope Cemetery | Beaumont |
| Big Pine Cemetery, Big Pine | Big Pine |
| East Line Street Cemetery, Bishop | Bishop |
| Palo Verde Cemetery | Blythe |
| Gan Shalom Cemetery, Briones | Briones |
| Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation | Burbank |
| Green Valley Cemetery, Cameron Park | Cameron Park |
| Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo | Carmel – Junípero Serra |
| Forest Lawn Cemetery – Cathedral City | Cathedral City – Alice Faye |
| Desert Memorial Park | Cathedral City – Frank Sinatra |
| Artesia Cemetery | Cerritos |
| Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery | Chatsworth – Adele Astaire |
| Sylvan Cemetery | Citrus Heights |
| Colusa Cemetery, Colusa | Clousa |
| Coachella Valley Public Cemetery | Coachella Valley – Frank Capra |
| College City Cemetery, College City | College City |
| Greek Orthodox Memorial Park | Colma |
| Greenlawn Cemetery | Colma |
| Hoy Sun Memorial Cemetery | Colma |
| Italian Cemetery | Colma |
| Japanese Cemetery | Colma |
| Olivet Memorial Park | Colma |
| Russian Sectarian Cemetery | Colma |
| Salem Memorial Park and Garden | Colma |
| Serbian Cemetery | Colma |
| Agua Mansa Pioneer Cemetery | Colton |
| Memory Gardens Cemetery, Concord | Concord |
| Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Contra Costa | Contra Costa |
| Corcoran Memorial Park, Corcoran | Corcoran |
| Corona Sunnyslope Cemetery | Corona |
| Forest Lawn – Covina Hills | Covina |
| IOOF Cemetery, Crescent City | Crescent City |
| Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Crescent City | Crescent City |
| Holy Cross Cemetery | Culver City – Bing Crosby |
| Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery | Culver City – Jack Benny |
| Forest Lawn – Cypress | Cypress |
| Saint Josephs Catholic Cemetery, Del Norte County | Del Norte County |
| Smith Mountain Cemetery | Dinuba |
| Sacramento Valley National Cemetery | Dixon |
| Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Mausoleum (first new combined cathedral and burial place in the US in over 30 years) | Downtown Los Angeles – Gregory Peck |
| Dublin Pioneer Cemetery, Dublin | Dublin |
| Home of Peace Cemetery | East Los Angeles – Curly Howard and Shemp Howard (from Three Stooges) |
| Calvary Cemetery | East Los Angeles – King Baggot |
| Singing Hills Memorial Park | El Cajon |
| Evergreen Cemetery, El Centro – Ira Aten, Joseph Treshil | El Centro |
| Mormon Island Relocation Cemetery, El Dorado Hills | El Dorado Hills |
| Saint Bernards Cemetery, Eureka – Carole and Judi Sund | Eureka |
| Lone Tree Cemetery, Hayward – William Dutton Hayward, Pete Knight, Bob Sweikert | Fairview |
| Fiddletown Cemetery, Fiddletown | Fiddletown |
| Chung Wah Cemetery | Folsom |
| Fredericksburg Cemetery, Fredericksburg | Fredericksburg |
| Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Fremont | Fremont |
| Centerville Pioneer Cemetery (also known as Centerville Presbyterian Cemetery), Fremont | Fremont |
| Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Cemetery, Fremont
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Fremont |
| Holy Ghost Cemetery, Fremont | Fremont |
| Irvington Memorial Cemetery, also known as Fremont Memorial Park, Fremont | Fremont |
| Mission San Jose Cemetery, Fremont | Fremont |
| Saint Josephs Cemetery, Fremont | Fremont |
| Belmont Memorial Park, Fresno – Walter Huston | Fresno County |
| Gavilan Hills Memorial Park and Catholic Cemetery | Gilroy |
| Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery | Glendale – Joan Blondell |
| Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery | Glendale – Leo G. Carroll |
| Goleta Cemetery | Goleta |
| Gridley-Biggs Cemetery, Gridley | Gridley |
| Redwood Memorial Gardens – Randy Shilts | Guerneville |
| Hanford Cemetery, Hanford | Hanford |
| Chapel of the Chimes, Hayward – Spade Cooley, Daniel Sakai | Hayward |
| Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Hayward – Tony Lema, Fran Ryan | Hayward |
| Mount Eden Cemetery, Hayward | Hayward |
| Mount Saint Joseph Cemetery (aka All Saints or Portuguese Cemetery), Hayward | Hayward |
| Oak Mound Cemetery | Healdsburg |
| Hollywood Forever Cemetery | Hollywood – Don Adams |
| Sherman Indian High School Cemetery | Home Gardens[6] |
| Cypress Lawn Memorial Park – Gertrude Atherton | Hubert Howe Bancroft |
| Inglewood Park Cemetery | Inglewood – Edgar Bergen |
| Ione Public Cemetery, Ione | Ione |
| Jackson City Cemetery, Jackson City | Jackson City |
| Janesville Cemetery, Janesville | Janesville |
| Holy Cross Cemetery – Pat Brown | Joe DiMaggio |
| Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington | Kensington |
| Elsinore Valley Cemetery | Lake Elsinore |
| Chico Cemetery, Chico – Ted W. Lawson | Lawson |
| Lemoore Cemetery, Lemoore | Lemoore |
| IOOF Memory Gardens Cemetery, Livermore | Livermore |
| Oak Knoll Pioneer Memorial Park, former cemetery, now a park (all gravestones removed), Livermore | Livermore |
| Roselawn Cemetery, also known as Masonic Cemetery, Livermore | Livermore |
| Saint Michael’s Cemetery, Livermore | Livermore |
| Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery | Lompoc |
| Mount Whitney Cemetery, Lone Pine | Lone Pine |
| Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Long Beach) in | Long Beach |
| All Souls Cemetery | Long Beach – Frank Zamboni |
| Gate of Heaven Cemetery | Los Altos – Iris Chang |
| Chapel of the Pines Crematory | Los Angeles |
| Chinese Cemetery | Los Angeles |
| Evergreen Cemetery | Los Angeles |
| Home of Peace Cemetery | Los Angeles |
| Odd Fellows Cemetery | Los Angeles |
| Woodlawn Cemetery | Los Angeles |
| Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery | Los Angeles – Bette Davis |
| Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery | Los Angeles – George Alexander |
| Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery | Los Angeles – Lee J. Cobb |
| Lower Lake Cemetery, Lower Lake | Lower Lake |
| Alhambra Pioneer Cemetery, Martinez | Martinez |
| Pacheco Cemetery & Crematory, Martinez | Martinez |
| St. Catherine of Siena Cemetery, Martinez | Martinez |
| Golden Hill Memorial Park | Mateo |
| Conejo Mountain Funeral Home | Memorial Park and Crematory |
| Fernwood Cemetery | Mill Valley |
| Eden Memorial Park Cemetery | Mission Hills |
| San Fernando Mission Cemetery | Mission Hills – William Bendix |
| Acacia Memorial Park | Modesto – James Carson Needham |
| Resurrection Cemetery | Montebello |
| Laurel Cemetery | Murrieta |
| Napa Valley Memorial Park & Mortuary | Napa |
| Tulocay Cemetery | Napa |
| Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery | North Hollywood – Bea Benaderet |
| Cathedral of Christ the Light Mausoleum, Oakland | Oakland |
| Chapel of Memories Columbarium, Oakland | Oakland |
| Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland – John Lee Hooker, Joseph R. Knowland | Oakland |
| Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland – Huey P. Newton, Earl “Fatha” Hines, memorial to the Jonestown victims | Oakland |
| Home of Peace Cemetery, Oakland | Oakland |
| Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland – Henry J. Kaiser, Julia Morgan, Elizabeth Short | Oakland |
| Saint Mary Cemetery, Oakland – Juan Bautista Alvarado, John Walter Ehle, George Hyde,[4] Slip Madigan | Oakland |
| Graves Cemetery, Orland | Orland |
| IOOF Cemetery, Orland | Orland |
| Orland Masonic Cemetery, Orland | Orland |
| Cherokee Cemetery, Oroville | Oroville |
| Jane Augustine Patencio Cemetery | Palm Springs |
| Welwood Murray Cemetery | Palm Springs |
| Alta Mesa Memorial Park | Palo Alto – Tennessee Ernie Ford |
| Perris Valley Cemetery | Perris |
| Pine Grove Cemetery, Pine Grove | Pine Grove |
| Placerville Union Cemetery, Placerville | Placerville |
| Saint Patrick Cemetery, Placerville | Placerville |
| Westwood Hills Memorial Park, Placerville | Placerville |
| Oakmont Memorial Park, Pleasant Hill | Pleasant Hill |
| Pleasanton Memorial Gardens Cemetery, also known as IOOF Cemetery, Pleasanton Pioneer Cemetery, Pleasanton | Pleasanton |
| Saint Augustines Cemetery, Pleasanton | Pleasanton |
| Plymouth Memorial Cemetery, Plymouth | Plymouth |
| Union Cemetery | Redwood City |
| Rolling Hills Memorial Park, Richmond | Richmond |
| Crestlawn Memorial Park | Riverside |
| Riverside National Cemetery | Riverside |
| Olivewood Cemetery | Riverside – Dorothy Burgess |
| Evergreen Cemetery | Riverside – many of the founders of Riverside including Frank Augustus Miller |
| Sacramento Historic City Cemetery (aka Old City Cemetery) | Sacramento |
| Sunset Lawn Chapel of the Chimes | Sacramento – Danny Nardico |
| Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery | Saint Helena |
| Saint Helena Public Cemetery | Saint Helena Public |
| Peoples Cemetery, San Andreas – Diana Adams | San Andreas |
| Golden Gate National Cemetery | San Bruno |
| El Campo Santo Cemetery | San Diego |
| Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery | San Diego |
| Greenwood Memorial Park | San Diego |
| Holy Cross Cemetery | San Diego |
| Miramar National Cemetery | San Diego |
| Mount Hope Cemetery | San Diego |
| Grace Cathedral Columbarium | San Francisco |
| Hoy Sun Ning Yung Cemetery | San Francisco |
| Neptune Society Columbarium | San Francisco |
| San Francisco National Cemetery | San Francisco |
| World War II West Coast Memorial | San Francisco |
| San Jacinto Valley Cemetery | San Jacinto |
| Calvary Catholic Cemetery | San Jose |
| Oak Hill Memorial Park | San Jose – Brooke Hart |
| Los Gatos Memorial Park | San Jose – William Hewlett |
| Mount Calvary Cemetery, San Leandro | San Leandro |
| San Lorenzo Pioneer Memorial Park, also known as San Lorenzo Pioneer Cemetery, San Lorenzo | San Lorenzo |
| Eternal Home Cemetery | San Mateo |
| St. John’s Cemetery | San Mateo |
| Tung Sen Cemetery | San Mateo |
| Skylawn Memorial Park | San Mateo – Wilbur Bestwick |
| St. Joseph Cemetery, San Pablo | San Pablo |
| Mount Tamalpais Cemetery | San Rafael – Bessie Barriscale |
| Santa Barbara Cemetery | Santa Barbara – Ronald Coleman |
| Mission City Memorial Park | Santa Clara – Harry Love |
| Santa Clara Mission Cemetery | Santa Clara – Peter Burnett |
| Evergreen Cemetery | Santa Cruz |
| Santa Cruz Memorial Park | Santa Cruz |
| Pioneer Cemetery | Santa Cruz – Charley Parkhurst |
| Oakwood Memorial Park | Santa Cruz – William Vincent Lucas |
| Santa Maria Cemetery | Santa Maria |
| Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery | Santa Monica – Charles Bickford |
| San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery | Santa Nella |
| Saint Francis Solano Cemetery | Santa Rosa |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Park | Santa Rosa |
| Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery | Santa Rosa |
| Madronia Cemetery | Saratoga – Mark Bingham |
| Hills of Eternity Cemetery – Wyatt Earp | Saveliy Kramarov |
| Sawtelle Veterans Home | Sawtelle |
| Smith River Cemetery, Smith River | Smith River |
| El Camino Memorial Park | Sorrento Valley |
| Happy Homestead Cemetery, South Lake Tahoe | South Lake Tahoe |
| Stanford Mausoleum | Stanford University – Leland Stanford |
| Stockton State Hospital Cemetery | Stockton – William Troy |
| Susanville Cemetery, Susanville – John Edward Raker | Susanville |
| Sutter Cemetery | Sutter – Dolly Gray |
| Sutter Creek Catholic Cemetery, Sutter Creek | Sutter Creek |
| Sutter Creek City Cemetery, Sutter Creek | Sutter Creek |
| San Fernando Pioneer Memorial Cemetery | Sylmar |
| Temecula Public Cemetery | Temecula |
| Martinez Cemetery | Thermal |
| Toro Cemetery | Thermal |
| Tulare Cemetery,Tulare | Tulare |
| Ivy Lawn Memorial Park | Ventura – Saint Francis Dam disaster mass grave |
| Los Angeles National Cemetery | West Los Angeles |
| Westwood Cemetery, Westwood | Westwood |
| Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery | Westwood – Eddie Albert |
| Rose Hills Memorial Park | Whittier (the largest cemetery in the United States) – Alvin Ailey |
| Wildomar Cemetery | Wildomar |
| Willows Cemetery, Willows | Willows |
| Yorba Hacienda | Yorba Linda |
| Veterans Memorial Grove Cemetery | Yountville |
| Chinese Cemetery | Yreka |
| Smartville Cemetery | Yuba |
| Holy Sun Memorial Cemetery |
California Cemeteries & Graveyards Links
- California Tombstone Inscription Project (usgwtombstones.org)
- California Obituary Project (usgwarchives.net)
- California Cemetery Inscription Sources (search.ancestry.com) This database contains the cemetery inscription sources for the state of California. Organized by county and cemetery name, it provides the researcher an invaluable tool in finding headstone inscriptions when travel to the cemetery is not possible.
- Web: California, Find A Grave Index, 1775-2011 (search.ancestry.com) This database contains an index to cemetery and final disposition details posted on Find a Grave. Find a Grave provides users a virtual cemetery experience, with images of grave markers from around the world, as well as photos, biographies, and other details uploaded by volunteers.
- Epodunk – California Cemeteries (epodunk.com)
- California, Mortuary and Cemetery Records, 1801-1932 (search.ancestry.com) This is a collection of Northern California burial and death records from 1800-1900. The records come from four different books that cover both Northern California in general and San Francisco, El Dorado, and Tehama County cemeteries.
- Find a Grave – California Cemeteries (findagrave.com)
- California Cemeteries at Internment.net (interment.net)
- The California Political Graveyard (politicalgraveyard.com)
- California Cemetery Books (amazon.com)
