About East Lawn Palms Cemetery
East Lawn Palms Cemetery is a cemetery near Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. It lies about 4.0 mi southwest of Tucson. The grounds sit at about 2,487 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 23 notable people buried here, including Fang Lizhi, Mitzi Mayfair and Alexander Smallens. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 29502. The nearest other listed cemetery is Pet Cemetery of Tucson, about 0.2 mi to the northwest. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Desert Rose Cremation & Burial in Tucson, about 2.2 mi away. It is one of 73 cemeteries we list in Pima County, and 15 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 1 of the 73 listings in Pima County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Tucson. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at East Lawn Palms Cemetery
Among them: 3 football players, 2 basketball players, 1 actor, 1 artist, 1 baseball player, 1 journalist, 1 musician, 1 scientist.
- Fang Lizhi1936-2012Professor of astrophysics; civil rights activist and dissident
- Mitzi Mayfair1914-1976American dancer and stage and film actress
- Alexander Smallens1889-1972American conductor
- Harold Francis Youngblood1907-1983American politician
- Jerry Kindall1935-2017American baseball player
- Beulah R. Bettersworth1894-1968American painter
- Fred Enke1924-2014American football player
- Jim LaRue1925-2015American football player and coach
- Jimmy Dudley1909-1999American baseball player
- Gordon Cobbledick1898-1969Cleveland sports journalist
- Bill Freyse1898-1969Cartoonist
- Raymond A. Curfman1915-1993American football player and coach
Show all 23 notable burials
- Robert Prentis Munger1909-2001American politician
- Sherri Rasmussen1957-1986American nurse and murder victim
- Speros Athans1883-1969Greek missionary
- W. Leonard Evans Jr.1914-2007African American businessman
- Wentworth Goss1904-1971
- Alma A. Konigslow1899-1991American art collector
- Beverley D. Cairns1932-2017American developmental psychologist
- Edward Hollister Wisser1895-1970
- Jerri L. Frantzve1942-2023
- John P. Puffinbarger1903-1971Professor of education
- Patricia Hollarn1920-2008Miss Florida 1938
People whose Wikidata entry gives East Lawn Palms Cemetery 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 East Lawn Palms Cemetery 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
- Pet Cemetery of TucsonTucson, AZPet cemetery0.2 mi
- Christ Church United Methodist Memorial GardenTucson, AZMemorial park1.6 mi
- Fort Lowell CemeteryTucson, AZCemetery1.7 mi
- Prayer Garden and ColumbariumTucson, AZCemetery2.0 mi
- Binghampton CemeteryCatalina Foothills, AZCemetery3.1 mi
- Catalina United Methodist Church Memorial GardenTucson, AZMemorial park3.9 mi
- Evergreen Mortuary and Cemetery3015 North Oracle Road, Tucson, AZCemetery6.6 mi
- Holy Hope Cemetery and MausoleumFlowing Wells, AZCemetery6.6 mi
- Tucson Pioneer CemeteryFlowing Wells, AZCemetery6.8 mi
- Pima County Cemetery / Tucson Pioneer CemeteryFlowing Wells, AZMunicipal cemetery6.9 mi
Funeral homes near East Lawn Palms Cemetery
- Desert Rose Cremation & Burial2.2 miCremation provider · Tucson · (520) 322-6131
- Desert Rose Heather Cremation & Burial2.2 miCremation provider · Tucson · (520) 608-3088
- Brings Broadway Chapel2.6 miFuneral home · Tucson · (520) 200-1022
- Adair Funeral Homes2.8 miFuneral home · Tucson · (520) 201-1131
- Dodge Chapel2.8 miFuneral home · Tucson · (520) 326-4343
- Swan Burial & Cremation3.5 miCremation provider · Tucson · (520) 747-2525
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