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Forest Lawn Cemetery (Idaho)
Forest Lawn may refer to: Cemeteries California * Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries, a chain of cemeteries in southern California * Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City), California * Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), California * Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), California * Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Long Beach), California Elsewhere * Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, South (Plantation, Florida) * Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Erlanger, Kentucky) * Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Omaha), Nebraska * Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo), New York * Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Tennessee * Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Beaumont), Texas * Forest Lawn Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia) Other places * Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Burnaby), British Columbia, Canada *Forest Lawn, Calgary, a former Canadian town annexed by Calgary in 1961 *Calgary Forest Lawn, a federal electoral district *Forest Lawn Scout Reservation, a group of Boy Scout camps in Cedar Glen, Californi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries
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 The company was founded by a group of San Francisco businessmen in 1906. Hubert Eaton assumed management control in 1917 and is credited with being Forest Lawn's "founder" because of his origination of the "memorial-park" plan. The first location was in Tropico, which later became part of Glendale, California. Its facilities are officially known as ''memorial parks''. The parks are best known for the large number of celebrity burials, especially in the Glendale and Hollywood Hills locations. Eaton opened the first mortuary (funeral home) on dedicated cemetery grounds after a battle with established funeral directors, who saw the "combination" operation as a threat. He remained as general manager until his death in 1966, when he was succeeded by his nephew, Frederick Llewellyn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |