Book Description

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Chinese Cemetery of Los Angeles, Sawtelle, Los Angeles, Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, Inglewood Park Cemetery, San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, Chapel of the Pines Crematory, Los Angeles National Cemetery, Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, El Campo Santo Cemetery, Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles, Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery, San Fernando Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, Home of Peace Cemetery, Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Eden Memorial Park Cemetery. Excerpt: Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately owned cemetery in Glendale, California. It is the original location of Forest Lawn, a chain of cemeteries in Southern California. The land was formerly part of Providencia Ranch. Forest Lawn was founded in 1906 as a not-for-profit cemetery by a group of businessmen from San Francisco. Dr. Hubert Eaton and C. B. Sims entered into a sales contract with the cemetery in 1912. Eaton took over the management of the cemetery in 1917 and is credited as being the "Founder" of Forest Lawn for his innovations of establishing the "memorial park plan" (eliminating upright grave markers) and being the first to open a funeral home on dedicated cemetery grounds. Eaton was a firm believer in a joyous life after death. He was convinced that most cemeteries were "unsightly, depressing stoneyards" and pledged to create one that would reflect his optimistic, Christian beliefs, "as unlike other cemeteries as sunshine is unlike darkness." He envisioned Forest Lawn to be "a great park devoid of misshapen monuments and other signs of earthly death, but filled...