About Tuscaloosa Memorial Park
Tuscaloosa Memorial Park is a memorial park near Holt, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It lies about 2.6 mi northwest of Holt. The grounds sit at about 331 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 21 notable people buried here, including William W. Brandon, Joe Sewell and Ray Perkins. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 128209. The nearest other listed cemetery is Hopewell Cemetery, about 1.4 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Heritage Chapel Funeral Home in Tuscaloosa, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 209 cemeteries we list in Tuscaloosa County, and 52 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Holt. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Tuscaloosa Memorial Park
Among them: 9 football players, 5 baseball players, 3 business leaders, 2 World War II veterans, 1 basketball player, 1 governor, 1 Medal of Honor recipient, 1 World War I veteran.
- William W. Brandon1868-1934American politician
- Joe Sewell1898-1990American baseball player and coach
- Ray Perkins1941-2020American football player
- Frank Lary1930-2017American baseball player
- Ike Boone1897-1958American baseball player
- Earle Davis Gregory1897-1972United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Harold Drew1894-1979American college football coach, college basketball coach
- Bill Young1914-1994American football offensive lineman
- Frank Lawrence Owsley1890-1955American historian
- Hank Crisp1896-1970American college coach
- Oscar Dahlene1886-1949American football player
- Hoyt Winslett1904-1998American college football player, businessman
Show all 21 notable burials
- Jimmy Walker1913-1943American football and basketball coach
- Melvin Vines1904-1984American football player and coach
- Paul Burnum1900-1981American college coach, American high school coach
- Virgil McKinley1874-1954American football coach
- Dudley Willis Cheapedied 1967Of Alabama
- Jack Warner1917-2017American businessman and art collector
- Jerry Alford1960-2020Nurse who died of COVID-19
- Mildred Westervelt Warner1893-1974President of Gulf States Paper Corporation, conservationist, philanthropist
- Morris Lehman Mayer1925-2008American marketing professor
People whose Wikidata entry gives Tuscaloosa Memorial Park as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
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What Tuscaloosa Memorial Park offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- Hopewell CemeteryHolt, ALCemetery1.4 mi
- Cottondale Nature Garden CemeteryTuscaloosa, ALCemetery1.9 mi
- Garners CemeteryHolt, ALCemetery2.1 mi
- Chambers CemeteryHolt, ALCemetery2.2 mi
- Alberta CemeteryTuscaloosa, ALCemetery3.0 mi
- Darden CemeteryTuscaloosa, ALCemetery3.1 mi
- Holt CemeteryHolt, ALCemetery3.1 mi
- Ruhama CemeteryHolt, ALCemetery3.3 mi
- Old Salem CemeteryCoaling, ALCemetery3.4 mi
- Memory Hill GardensTuscaloosa, ALCemetery3.6 mi
Funeral homes near Tuscaloosa Memorial Park
- Heritage Chapel Funeral Home0.3 miFuneral home · Tuscaloosa · (205) 553-3555
- Tuscaloosa Memorial Chapel Funeral Home0.4 miFuneral chapel · Tuscaloosa · (205) 553-3141
- Washington & Paige Mortuary3.0 miMortuary · Tuscaloosa · (334) 624-3016
- Memory Hill Funeral Home3.4 miFuneral home · Tuscaloosa
- Memory Chapel Funeral Home3.4 miFuneral home · Tuscaloosa · (205) 553-1430
- Sunset Funeral Home and Sunset Memorial Park5.9 miFuneral home · Northport · (205) 345-2900
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
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