Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Lakewood, California

Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a memorial park near Lakewood, Los Angeles County, California. It lies about 2.2 mi east of Lakewood. The grounds sit at about 72 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 16 notable people buried here, including Luana Patten, Frank Merriam and Vera Steadman. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 250107. The nearest other listed cemetery is All Souls Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the east. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Polk Funeral & Cremation Service in Long Beach, about 1.7 mi away. It is one of 101 cemeteries we list in Los Angeles County, and 23 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, Lakewood. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.

Among them: 4 actors, 2 baseball players, 2 US representatives, 1 basketball player, 1 governor, 1 inventor or engineer, 1 musician, 1 scientist.

• Luana Patten1938-1996
  Actress
• Frank Merriam1865-1955
  Governor of California
• Vera Steadman1900-1966
  American actress
• Frank Sully1908-1975
  American actor
• Ricky Harris1962-2016
  American actor
• William Ward Johnson1892-1963
  American politician
• Joe Houston1926-2015
  American jazz and R&B tenor saxophonist
• Thomas M. Eaton1896-1939
  American politician
• George Caster1907-1955
  American baseball player
• Vern Stephens1920-1968
  American baseball player
• Fanny Bixby Spencer1879-1930
  American philanthropist and antiwar writer
• Oliver Parker Fritchle1874-1951
  American chemist, storage battery innovator, and entrepreneur

People whose Wikidata entry gives Forest Lawn 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.

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.

• All Souls Cemetery

  4400 Cherry Avenue, Lakewood, CA
  Catholic cemetery

  0.2 mi
• RV Storage

  Lakewood, CA · est. 1950
  Cemetery

  0.6 mi
• Long Beach Municipal Cemetery

  Signal Hill, CA
  Municipal cemetery

  2.6 mi
• Sunnyside Cemetery

  Signal Hill, CA
  Cemetery

  2.6 mi
• Civil War vet burials

  Signal Hill, CA
  Cemetery

  2.6 mi
• Angeles Abbey Memorial Park

  East Rancho Dominguez, CA
  Memorial park

  4.4 mi
• Artesia Cemetery

  11142 Artesia Boulevard, Cerritos, CA · est. 1860
  Cemetery

  4.7 mi
• Downey District Cemetery

  9073 Gardendale Street, Downey, CA
  Church cemetery

  5.0 mi
• Woodlawn Cemetery

  Compton, CA
  Cemetery

  5.2 mi
• Lincoln Memorial Park

  West Rancho Dominguez, CA
  Memorial park

  5.4 mi

• Polk Funeral & Cremation Service

  Cremation provider · Long Beach · (562) 287-5810
  1.7 mi
• Destiny Funeral Home and Crematory

  Cremation provider · Long Beach · (562) 912-7977
  1.8 mi
• Shoreline Cremation Society

  Cremation provider · Long Beach · (562) 349-2233
  1.8 mi
• Simpson Family Mortuary

  Mortuary · Long Beach · (562) 513-1210
  1.8 mi
• Affordable Burial & Cremation Services

  Cremation provider · Long Beach · (562) 428-9772
  2.1 mi
• Luyben's Mortuary

  Mortuary · Lakewood
  2.2 mi

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