Forest Lawn - 100 - Long Beach, CA
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saopaulo1
N 33° 50.714 W 118° 10.078
11S E 391942 N 3745610
A plaque at the mausoleum in Long Beach, CA.
Waymark Code: WMWK0D
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/13/2017
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"Forest Lawn Memorial
Parks and Mortuaries.
1906-2006.
Glendale - 1906.
Hollywood Hills- 1948.
Cypress -1958,
Covina Hills, 1964.
Long Beach -1978.
Cathedral City -2005.
100 years of service."
"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. The company was founded by a group of San Francisco businessmen in 1906. Dr. 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 long 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." (
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