The San Fernando Mission Cemetery is a
Catholic
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cemetery
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a bu ...
located in the
Mission Hills community of the
San Fernando Valley
The San Fernando Valley, known locally as the Valley, is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, California. Located to the north of the Los Angeles Basin, it contains a large portion of the City of Los Angeles, as well as unincorporated ar ...
of
Los Angeles
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. The property adjoins the
San Fernando Mission and
Bishop Alemany Catholic High School.
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San Fernando Mission Cemeteryhas been owned and operated by the
Los Angeles Archdiocese since the founding of the Mission and first burials in 1797
Mission Hills Catholic Mortuaryis also located on the grounds of the cemetery. San Fernando Mission Cemetery is an active cemetery providing burials, entombments and cremation options to members of the Catholic Faith and their families. Pets, picnicking, the consumption of alcohol and photography are all prohibited on the cemetery grounds at all times.
Art by Isabel Piczek
Four mosaics by ecclesiastical artist
Isabel Piczek were created to adorn a mid-century style mausoleum. Two of the pieces are dated in the mosaic, 1963 and 1964.
List of notable interments and their families
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Philip Abbott (1924–1998), actor
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Edward Arnold (1890–1956), actor
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Michele Yvette Avila (1968–1985), murder victim
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Charles Beaumont (1929–1967), author and screenwriter
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Scotty Beckett (1929–1968), actor
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Ed Begley (1901–1970), actor
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William Bendix (1906–1964), actor
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Larry J. Blake
Larry J. Blake (April 24, 1914 – May 25, 1982) was an American actor.
Career
A native of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, he started his career in vaudeville as an impersonator, working his way to a headliner. After appearing at the Roxy Theatr ...
(1914–1982), actor
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Loretta Blake (1898–1981) actress
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Walter Brennan
Walter Andrew Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor and singer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in '' Come and Get It'' (1936), ''Kentucky'' (1938), and '' The Westerner ...
(1894–1974), actor
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Evelyn Brent
Evelyn Brent (born Mary Elizabeth Riggs; October 20, 1895 – June 4, 1975) was an American film and stage actress.
Early life
Brent was born in Tampa, Florida, and known as Betty. When she was age 10, her mother Eleanor (née. Warner) died, ...
(1899–1975), actress
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George Burditt (1923–2013), television director
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Candy Candido (1913–1999), actor and voice-over artist
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Bobby Chacon (1951–2016), boxer
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Jerry Colonna (1904–1986), actor and comedian
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Betty Compson
Betty Compson (born Eleanor Luicime Compson; March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974) was an American actress and film producer who got her start during Hollywood's silent era. She is best known for her performances in '' The Docks of New York'' an ...
(1897–1974), actress
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Chuck Connors
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(1921–1992), actor
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Carmine
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(1910–1991) and
Italia Coppola
Italia Pennino Coppola (; December 12, 1912 – January 21, 2004) was the matriarch of the Coppola family. She appeared in three non-speaking roles in Francis Ford Coppola's movies, '' One from the Heart'', '' The Godfather Part II'' and '' The G ...
(1912–2004), parents of filmmaker
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (; ; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the major figures of the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Coppola is the recipient of five ...
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Henry Corden (1920–2005), actor and voice-over artist
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Joseph Crehan (1883–1966), actor
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Lee de Forest
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(1873–1961), physicist & electrical engineer, inventor of the triode
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Roy Del Ruth
Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1893, Delaware – April 27, 1961) was an American filmmaker.
Early career
Beginning his Hollywood career as a writer for Mack Sennett in 1915, Del Ruth later directed his first short film ''Hungry Lions'' (1919) ...
(1893–1961), movie director
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Carmen Dragon
Carmen Dragon (July 28, 1914 – March 28, 1984) was an American conductor, composer, and arranger who in addition to live performances and recording, worked in radio, film, and television.
Early years
Dragon was born in Antioch, California, ...
(1914–1984), composer and conductor, father of
Daryl Dragon
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Tom Dugan (1889–1955), actor
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Allan Dwan
Allan Dwan (born Joseph Aloysius Dwan; April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.
Early life
Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dwan, wa ...
(1885–1981), director, producer, screenwriter
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Frank Faylen (1905–1985), actor
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Dick Foran (1910–1979), actor
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Harry Fox
Harry Fox (born Arthur Carringford; May 25, 1882 – July 20, 1959) was an American vaudeville dancer, actor, and comedian.
Biography
Fox is most notably famous for being related as name-source to the Fox Trot dance in New York. In "Dance Mad" ...
(1882–1959), stage and movie star, "Fox-Trot" dance inventor
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William Frawley (1887–1966), actor
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Anita Garvin
Anita Garvin (born Anna Frances Garvin; February 11, 1906 – July 7, 1994) was a tall American stage performer and film actress who worked in both the silent and sound eras."California Death Index, 1940-1997", Anita Garvin Stanley, February 1 ...
(1907–1994), actress
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Bert Glennon (1893–1967), cinematographer
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George Gobel
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(1919–1991), actor and comedian
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Peter Graves (1926-2010), actor
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William Haade (1903–1966), actor
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Ray Heindorf (1908–1980), composer
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Pat Hogan (1920–1966), actor
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Bob Hope
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer and dancer. With a career that spanned nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, with ...
(1903–2003), actor and comedian
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Dolores Hope (1909–2011), singer and wife of Bob Hope
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Carol Hughes (1910–1995), actress, wife of
Frank Faylen
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Alice Joyce
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(1890–1955), actress
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Bob Kelley
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(1917–1966), sportscaster
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Dorothea Kent (1916–1990), actress
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Peggy Knudsen
Margaret Ann "Peggy" Knudsen (April 22, 1923 – July 11, 1980) was an American character actress.
Early life
She was born Margaret Ann Knudsen in Duluth, Minnesota. Her father was Conrad Knudsen, Duluth's fire chief. Her ancestors were Irish a ...
(1923–1980), actress
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Rosemary LaPlanche (1923–1979), actress
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Charles Lamont (1895–1993), director
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Winnie Lightner (1899–1971), actress, comedian and singer
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Richard Loo
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Early lif ...
(1903–1983), actor
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Edmund Lowe
Edmund Dantes Lowe (March 3, 1890 – April 21, 1971) was an American actor. His formative experience began in vaudeville and silent film.
Biography
Lowe was born in San Jose, California. His father was a local judge. His childhood home was a ...
(1892–1971), actor
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Ken Lynch (1910–1990), actor
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Michael Maltese
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(1908–1981), animation screenwriter
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Robert L. Manahan (1956-2000), actor
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Adele Mara
Adele Mara (born Adelaida Delgado; April 28, 1923 – May 7, 2010) was an American actress, singer, and dancer, who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s and on television in the 1950s and 1960s.
Early years
Mara was born in Highland P ...
(1923–2010), actress
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June Marlowe (1903–1984) (original burial site; remains later moved to
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels)
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Bob May (1939–2009), actor and stuntman
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Kathryn Minner (1892–1969), actress
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Lee Moran (1888–1961), actor
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Clarence Nash (1904–1985), voice-over artist
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Fred Niblo Jr.
Fred Niblo Jr. (January 23, 1903 – February 18, 1973) was a successful American screenwriter. He received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nomination for the film ''The Criminal Code'' (1931) with Seton I. Miller. Niblo retired fr ...
(1903–1973), screenwriter, son of
Fred Niblo
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Thomas Noonan (1921–1968), actor and comedian
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Eva Novak (1898–1988), actress, sister of Jane Novak
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Jane Novak
Jane Novak (born Johana Barbara Novak; January 12, 1896 – February 3, 1990) was an American actress of the silent film era.
Background
Jane Novak was born Johana Barbara Novak in St. Louis, Missouri to Bohemian immigrant Joseph Jerome Novak a ...
(1896–1990), actress, sister of Eva Novak
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Jay Novello (1904–1982), actor
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Henry O'Neill
Henry O'Neill (August 10, 1891 – May 18, 1961) was an American film actor known for playing gray-haired fathers, lawyers, and similarly dignified roles during the 1930s and 1940s.
Early years
He was born in Orange, New Jersey.
Caree ...
(1891–1961), actor
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Ernie Orsatti
Ernest Ralph Orsatti (September 8, 1902 – September 4, 1968) was a professional baseball player who was an outfielder and first base for the St. Louis Cardinals from to . Orsatti appeared in four World Series, two of which the Cardinals won. ...
(1902–1968), major league baseball player
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Artie Ortego (1890–1960), actor
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William H. Parker (1905–1966), police chief of Los Angeles
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William Perkins (1947–1967), Cpl, USMC
Medal of Honor
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Recipient
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Paul Picerni
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(1922–2011), actor
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Eddie Quillan (1907–1990), actor
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Bill Quinn
William Tyrell Quinn (1912 – April 29, 1994) was an American film actor.
Quinn was born in 1912 in New York. He performed with his older brothers in a children's act in vaudeville.
Quinn began working on radio around 1934. He starred as a de ...
(1912–1994), actor
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Jobyna Ralston (1900–1967), actress
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Ted Fio Rito (1900–1971), musician
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Estelita Rodriguez (1928–1966), actress
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Teddy Sampson
Nora Sampson (August 8, 1895 – November 24, 1970), known professionally as Teddy Sampson, was an American stage and silent film actress who appeared in at least forty-one motion pictures between 1914 and 1923.
Biography
Nora Sampson was born i ...
(1895–1970), actress
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Olga San Juan (1927–2009), actress
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Trinidad Silva (1950–1988), actor
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Penny Singleton (1908–2003), actress and first female president of an
AFL–CIO
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union
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Gloria Talbott (1931–2000), actress
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Felipe Turich (1898–1992), actor, husband of Rosa Turich
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Rosa Turich
Rosa Turich (born Rosa Sinohui, June 9, 1903 – November 20, 1998) was an American film and television actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional ...
(1903–1998), actress, wife of Felipe Turich
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Ritchie Valens (1941–1959), singer
W
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James Westerfield (1913–1971), actor
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Michael Whalen (1902–1974), actor
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Frank Wilcox (1907–1974), actor
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Jane Wyatt (1910–2006), actress
See also
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History of the San Fernando Valley
External links
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{{San Fernando Valley
Cemeteries in Los Angeles
Mission San Fernando Rey de España Cemetery
Lists of burials by location
Roman Catholic cemeteries in California
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Mission Hills, Los Angeles