About Oak Park Cemetery
Oak Park Cemetery is a cemetery near Claremont, Los Angeles County, California. It lies about 1.0 mi northwest of Claremont. The grounds sit at about 1,093 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 19 notable people buried here, including Addison Richards, Harry V. Jaffa and Hartley Burr Alexander. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 246749. The nearest other listed cemetery is Palomares Cemetery, about 1.6 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Ebenezer Memorial Services in Pomona, about 0.4 mi away. It is one of 101 cemeteries we list in Los Angeles County, and 10 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Los Angeles County dates to 1860. 20 of the 101 listings in Los Angeles County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Claremont. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Oak Park Cemetery
Among them: 3 scientists, 2 actors, 2 writers, 1 football player, 1 architect, 1 baseball player, 1 basketball player.
- Addison Richards1902-1964American actor
- Harry V. Jaffa1918-2015American historian and political philosopher
- Hartley Burr Alexander1873-1939American philosopher, writer, educator, scholar, poet and iconographer
- Mary Minerva Haskell1869-1953American congregationalist missionary in Bulgaria
- Michael Alldredge1941-1997American film and television actor
- Edward Bell Haskell1865-1935American missionary
- Eugene W. Nixon1885-1969American football coach
- Jean Walton1914-2006American academic administrator
- Joseph Platt1915-2012American university professor
- Peter J. Weber1893-1983American architect
- Clara Denison Loomis1877-1968American educator
- Edward Twichell Ware1874-1927Third president of Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Show all 19 notable burials
- Frank Theodosius Lee1847-1934American Christian minister
- George Moreby Acklom1870-1959British writer, literary critic and editor
- First woman to earn a Ph.D. from Western Reserve University
- William Atwood Hilton1878-1970American entomologist and zoologist
- William Clark Bell1872-1942American missionary in Angola
- Chester George Jaeger1896-1983Ph.D. University of Missouri - Columbia 1927
- Pearl. B Fosnot1891-1976American missionary, teacher and botanical collector
People whose Wikidata entry gives Oak Park 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 Oak Park 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
- Palomares CemeteryClaremont, CACemetery1.6 mi
- Bellevue Memorial ParkMontclair, CAMemorial park2.2 mi
- Pomona Cemetery and MausoleumPomona, CACemetery3.8 mi
- Pomona Valley Memorial ParkPomona, CAMemorial park3.8 mi
- La Verne CemeteryLa Verne, CACemetery3.9 mi
- Holy Cross Cemetery PomonaPomona, CAChristian cemetery4.1 mi
- Holy Cross Catholic CemeteryPomona, CAChristian cemetery4.1 mi
- Spadra CemeteryDiamond Bar, CACemetery5.8 mi
- Forest Lawn Memorial ParkDiamond Bar, CAMemorial park7.7 mi
- Oakdale Memorial ParkCitrus, CAMemorial park9.7 mi
Funeral homes near Oak Park Cemetery
- Ebenezer Memorial Services0.4 miFuneral home · Pomona · (909) 305-9955
- TGC Mortuary Transport Services LLC0.8 miMortuary · Montclair · (951) 316-3180
- TGC Funeral Services LLC0.8 miFuneral home · Montclair · (888) 225-9108
- Legacy of Memories Funeral Home1.5 miFuneral home · Upland · (909) 373-5713
- Draper Mortuary2.4 miMortuary · Ontario · (909) 986-1131
- Eden Funeral Home2.5 miFuneral home · Ontario · (626) 660-4825
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