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  Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 22601 Lassen Street, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California.
It has been used as a cemetery since the 1800s, and was an Indian graveyard before that.
Dorothy Mackaye (1899-1940), actress and a convicted husband killer
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oakwood_Memorial_Park_Cemetery   (94 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > List of famous cemeteries
Highgate Cemetery, London - the tomb of Karl Marx, topped with a huge bronze bust, is here; Highgate is notable for its "Egyptian catacombs", where John Galsworthy, George Eliot, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti were buried.
Gettysburg National Cemetery, in Pennsylvania, at the dedication of which in November, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address.
Punchbowl[?], Honolulu - military cemetery of the Pacific, in the Punchbowl Crater of an extinct volcano known as Puowaina, Hawaiian for "Hill of Sacrifice."
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/li/List_of_famous_cemeteries   (810 words)

  
 Oakwood Memorial Park: Stars' Graves   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
To find her grave, when you first drive into the park, bear to the right (northeast) and go down to section E. Notice that there is a metal grate running across the road (causing a slight dip in the road.) Park near this grate.
of the park (see a map), you'll discover that there is a small wishing well garden on the west side of the road, north of the church.
Oakwood is a large cemetery, carved out of the rocky foothills of Chatsworth (next to the former site of Roy Rogers' old ranch.) It's very difficult to locate the stars' graves here without a map.
www.seeing-stars.com /Buried2/Oakwood.shtml   (1146 words)

  
 forest lawn memorial park cemetery - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California is the original Forest Lawn.
Eaton was a firm believer in a joyous life after death, who was convinced that most cemeteries were "unsightly, depressing stoneyards," and pledged to create one that would reflect his optimistic beliefs, "as unlike other cemeteries as sunshine is unlike darkness".
Among those interred or entombed in the cemetery are a number of important personalities, famous persons, including men and women from the entertainment industry, et cetera, and their relatives.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Forest-Lawn-Memorial-Park-Cemetery   (705 words)

  
 DNR
The park apparently was the first in the nation built on strip-mined land, and one of the first to be subsidized through public contributions.
Both are buried in a small pioneer cemetery overlooking the former site of their farmstead cabin near the entrance to Campground Fox.
While groups of 25 or more are welcome and encouraged to use the park's facilities, they are required to register in advance with the site office to avoid crowding or scheduling conflicts.
dnr.state.il.us /lands/landmgt/PARKS/R3/KICKAPOO.HTM   (1828 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle News: City of the Dead: Journeying through the graves of Austin's oldest cemetery
In the cemetery's early days, the north section was designated as "colored grounds." Paupers' bodies were carted from the gate to a small plot in the northwestern portion of the cemetery, then buried in unmarked graves.
Thirty-seven-year-old Adrea Craft lives a couple of blocks from Oakwood and almost daily walks her two dogs, Cosmo and Rufus, up and down the worn dirt maze of shaded sand- and gravel-sprinkled paths running between uneven rows of graves in the older part of the cemetery.
Part of the difficulty in maintaining Oakwood lies in the fact that, although the city owns the property, caring for individual plots is the responsibility of the families of the people buried in them.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2006-04-21/pols_feature.html   (2539 words)

  
 Cemeteries in Southern Wisconsin / Oakwood Cemetery, Beloit, Wisconsin / ComPortOne of Rockford Illinois   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Cemeteries in Southern Wisconsin / Oakwood Cemetery, Beloit, Wisconsin / ComPortOne of Rockford Illinois
The Strong family donated an additional 15 acres to enlarge the cemetery and establish a public park [known as Strong Park].
There are four veterans sections within Oakwood consisting of a Civil War section, a Spanish-American War section, and two sections sponsored by the American Legion and V.F.W. for veterans from WWI.
www.comportone.com /cpo/cemeteries/wisconsin/rockcounty/oakwood.htm   (86 words)

  
 Welcome Visitor and Newcomer
The War Memorial Carillon is 240 feet high and The Carillon instrument was built by John Taylor Bell Founders of England.
Memorial concerts may be arranged by calling (804) 646-1437.
The cemetery is the resting-place of Elizabeth Arnold Poe and George Wythe, one of the signers of our Nation's Declaration of Independence.
www.ci.richmond.va.us /visitor/monumentsmemorials.aspx   (1089 words)

  
 OBITUARIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Friday at Graham Memorial Park by the Rev. Larry Cheek, pastor of Edgewood Baptist Church, and the Rev. Alan Ritter, pastor of North Graham Baptist Church.
Friday at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in High Point by the Rev. David Williams, pastor of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter.
Memorials may be made to the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter, 320 E. Davis St., Burlington, N.C. 27215; or to a charity of choice.
www.thetimesnews.com /1999/99-10/99-10-28/obits.html   (1018 words)

  
 Oakwood Memorial Chapel * Cemetery * Funeral Home
In 1908, a group of Protestant ministers who represented twelve local churches founded The Oakwood Cemetery Association and purchased the land which was once part of a Spanish Land Grant.
Oakwood Memorial Park is located on the west side of Dominican Hospital.
The counselors at Santa Cruz Memorial Park and Oakwood Memorial Park have the experience to guide you through all arrangements.
www.funeralnet.com /oakwood_memorial   (249 words)

  
 Hollywood Forever Cemetery: Stars' Graves   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
This is a large cemetery, with two huge indoor mausoleums and countless outdoor graves.
Some sections of the cemetery grounds are a little unkempt (more than a handful of tombstones are broken or tilted by overgrown tree roots), but the tranquil area by the lake is beautiful.
And despite their age, both buildings are white and sunny (illuminated by stained-glass skylights), not at all the sort of dark and spooky environs your imagination might conjure up when you think of an old mausoleum.
www.seeing-stars.com /Buried2/HollywoodMemorial.shtml   (1571 words)

  
 Davis Funeral Chapel Inc. Leavenworth, Kansas 66048
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, Cushing Memorial Hospice, or the First United Methodist Church memorial committee of Leavenworth in care of the Davis Funeral Chapel.
Memorial contributions may be given to the family in care of the Davis Funeral Chapel.
Memorial contributions may be given to Cushing Hospital at 711 Marshall St., Leavenworth, KS 66048 or First Methodist Church, 5th and Chestnut, Leavenworth, KS 66048.
www.davisfuneralchapelinc.com /obituaries-2004.htm   (11230 words)

  
 Hancock Park District   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Year-round parks and outdoor recreation await visitors to a network of public facilities supported by the residents of Hancock County.
The Park District is a special district of the State of Ohio created in 1970 by local residents under the Park District Law of 1917, provided in Ohio Revised Code 1545.
The MISSION of the Hancock Park District is to create, preserve, protect, restore and manage a system of parks, nature preserves and outdoor recreation facilities to be held in public ownership, with a focus on local, natural, historical and cultural resources, and maintained for the leisure use, education and enjoyment of this and future generations.
www.hancockparks.com /parks.htm   (993 words)

  
 Santa Cruz Memorial - Serving all your needs at your time of need.
Santa Cruz Memorial Mission Chapel and Oakwood Chapel have served the community since 1862.
We can assist in providing memorial services and simple cremation arrangements, and because we are non- sectarian, coordinate traditional services in your place of worship.
Both Santa Cruz Memorial and Oakwood Memorial Chapel are combination funeral homes and cemeteries offering convenience, complete arrangements through one person, no subcontracted services and economy.
www.scmemorial.com   (257 words)

  
 Stephen Boyd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He died of a heart attack at the age of 45 while playing golf.
Stephen Boyd was interred in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California.
This page was last modified 17:07, 29 August 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Boyd   (296 words)

  
 Gettysburg National Cemetery
Should you have any questions on the Confederate dead from Gettysburg, please contact the cemetery or the United Daughters of the Confederacy for where they are buried.
According to the historian at Gettysburg National Military Park, "The majority of southern dead remained in the hasty and scattered field burials until 1877 when ladies' memorial societies in South and North Carolina undertook efforts to have the bodies removed.
A large number of North Carolina soldiers were taken to Oakwood Cemetery in North Carolina.
home.ptd.net /~nikki/gburgcem.htm   (714 words)

  
 CEMETERIES OF LOS ANGELES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Apparently the first cemetery established in the city was in the Old Plaza area, adjacent to the Plaza Church at 521 N. Main Street.
Some of the cemeteries listed here are actually in neighboring cities but are included here because of their historical significance.
There are also some cemeteries which were at one time in other cities and towns but which through annexation became part of Los Angeles.
www.usc.edu /isd/archives/la/cemeteries   (207 words)

  
 Hinman, Bruce T.
After the memorial service, a five-mile procession of patrol cars and motorcycles, lights flashing, followed the hearse to the cemetery.
More fire trucks were parked along the road with ladders raised in tribute to the fallen officer.
At the cemetery, a police honor guard fired three volleys, a bugler played taps and six police helicopters flew the missing man formation over the gravesite.
www.camemorial.org /htm/hinman.htm   (528 words)

  
 Village Of Plover: Park Maps/Pictures
This park includes a Little League ball diamond, modular play equipment, swing sets, rocking animals, climbing set, portable rest rooms and a chipped trail leading into the park from Zblewski Dr.
This park offers a sandlot baseball field with backstop, modular play equipment, swing set, rocking animals and a combination basketball/hard surface area.
A 3 acre park containing a small picnic area, wooden playground equipment and swing set, and rocking animals.
www.eplover.com /park1.htm   (90 words)

  
 OAKWOOD MEMORIAL PARK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The cemetery, located at 22601 Lassen Street in Chatsworth, has been used as a burial site since sometime in the nineteenth century, beginning with its use as an Indian burial ground.
The Old Stagecoach Trail bisects the cemetery, and rock for the Los Angeles harbor breakwater was quarried here.
In 1965 the Chatsworth First Methodist Church was moved to Oakwood, and one room is devoted to displaying artifacts from the history of Chatsworth.
usc.edu /libraries/archives/la/cemeteries/la_cemeteries_oakwood.html   (84 words)

  
 Ginger Rogers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rogers would spend the winters in Rancho Mirage, California, and the summers in Medford, Oregon.
Ginger Rogers died on April 25, 1995, of complications from diabetes, at the age of 83, in Rancho Mirage, California, and was interred in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California.
The Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater in Medford, Oregon is named in her honor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ginger_Rogers   (1902 words)

  
 Descendants of Our Mr. Adamson
She was buried in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery.
He was buried in Salem Baptist Church Cemetery.
He was buried in Rockville, Parke Co., Indiana.
www.adamsonancestry.com /list/b3.htm   (1589 words)

  
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Raul regularly goes to the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in the San Fernando Valley to fulfill his alcoholic father's dying wish: Forget the flowers, just bring me beer.
When the beatings begin, Concha tells her daughter that it is just "playing." A week after his cemetery visit, Raul visits his barber, an old friend.
At baptisms, children's birthday parties, quinceaneras--even funerals--women at Park Parthenia say it is common for men to congregate separately, binging on beer, a social pattern observed in studies that analyze Mexican American drinking.
www.csun.edu /~dgw61315/marketingbeer.doc   (5403 words)

  
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In May 1970 the capsule was transferred to the newly opened vault at the Oakwood Memorial Park cemetery in Chatsworth.
Bowers testified that she had no knowledge of the defendants' intention to introduce more than one body into her father's cryonics capsule as they, in fact, admitted doing at the trial.
I believe their conclusion to be quite fair: that so far, we haven't yet gone very far towards understanding memory.
www.alcor.org /cryonics/cryonics9203.txt   (17496 words)

  
 U.S. Memorial Day Parade Directory -- VetFriends.com
This is the biggest Memorial Day parade in Ohio, its 74th anniversary.
Parade route ends at Oakwood Cemetery where Memorial Services will be conducted & about 9 Gold Star Mothers to be honored also.
This is a Ceremony that the American Legion puts on every year at Greenlawn Cemetery.
www.vetfriends.com /memorial_day_parade/directory.cfm?state=OH   (121 words)

  
 Salisbury Post Obituaries
Memorials: Mount Olivet United Methodist Church, 301 Mount Olivet Road, Concord, NC 28025.
Thursday, West Lawn Memorial Park, China Grove, conducted by the Rev. Ronnie Cooper.
Memorials: Mount Calvary Baptist Church, 703 Snuggs Road, Albemarle NC 28001.
www.salisburypost.com /2000dec/122700deaths.htm   (1678 words)

  
 Verna, Paul L.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Officer Paul Verna, 35, a Medal of Valor winner gunned down during a routine traffic stop, was laid to rest in a service attended by more than 3,500 fellow officers.
An additional 2,000 civilians attended the June 8 burial of the murdered motorcycle officer at Oakwood Memorial Park, just a few miles from the neighborhood where Verna was raised and the corner where he was killed.
Officers from 51 different agencies from California, Arizona, Nevada and even Mexico accompanied Verna's casket on the slow trek to the cemetery where they were joined by Mayor Tom Bradley, Sheriff Sherman Block and several members of the City Council.
www.camemorial.org /htmprev/verna.htm   (397 words)

  
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In June 1979, staff at Oak Park Cemetery were shocked when Worthington and a news team descended upon them without warning, and someone smashed the lock on the door to Nelson's vault.[11][18] Since some of the bodies had been disinterred, it wasn't a pretty sight.
He considered them to be properly interred in their capsule, underground at a cemetery, a point Joseph Klockgether agrees with.
This is a point of contention with many cryonicists, though, because he marketed his vault as a viable cryonics facility while bodies were "rotting" inside, but that was the point of having an underground vault at a cemetery in the first place.
www.cryonics.org /immortalist/november05/nelson.htm   (5584 words)

  
 Suspension Failures - Lessons from the Early Days
Nelson meanwhile purchased an underground vault at a cemetery in Chatsworth, a suburb on the northwest side of Los Angeles.
The lid of the vault could be opened for placement of human cryogenic capsules; a smaller hatch allowed more limited access for periodic maintenance, including refilling with liquid nitrogen.
I understand his being a gun-toting policeman helped in prodding reluctant hospital officials to cooperate quickly in her freezing, which was carried out under sponsorship of CSNY.
www.alcor.org /Library/html/suspensionfailures.html   (3562 words)

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