About Green Hills Memorial Park
Green Hills Memorial Park is a memorial park near Lomita, Los Angeles County, California. It lies about 1.3 mi north of Lomita. The grounds sit at about 223 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 53 notable people buried here, including Charles Bukowski, Yokozuna and Dennis Johnson. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 242986. The nearest other listed cemetery is Wilmington Cemetery, about 3.7 mi to the east. The nearest mortuary we know of is Green Hills Mortuary & Memorial Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, about 0.2 mi away. It is one of 101 cemeteries we list in Los Angeles County, and 14 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, Lomita. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Green Hills Memorial Park
Among them: 14 actors, 5 musicians, 4 writers, 3 basketball players, 3 scientists, 3 US representatives, 2 football players, 2 baseball players.
- Charles Bukowski1920-1994German-American writer
- Yokozuna1966-2000American professional wrestler
- Dennis Johnson1954-2007American basketball player
- Pola Illéry1909-1993Actress
- Willie Naulls1934-2018American basketball player
- Lewis Collins1946-2013English actor
- Yuri Kochiyama1921-2014American civil rights activist
- D. Boon1958-1985American guitarist and singer
- Robert Foulk1908-1989American actor
- Robert Gordon1895-1971American silent film actor
- Don Terry1902-1988American film actor
- Glenn M. Anderson1913-1994American politician
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- Paul Conrad1924-2010American political cartoonist and sculptor
- Bob Custer1898-1974American actor
- John Barnhill1938-2013American basketball player
- John W. Bubbles1902-1986American dancer, musician, and actor
- Louie Spicolli1971-1998American professional wrestler
- Adelle Davis1904-1974American activist and writer
- Barbara Slater1920-1997American actress
- Charles J. Colden1870-1938American politician
- Del M. Clawson1914-1992American politician
- Frank Perkins1908-1988American composer
- George Allen1918-1990American football coach
- Bert Gardiner1913-2001Canadian ice hockey player
- Dick Attlesey1929-1984American hurdler and world record breaker
- Vincent Thomas1907-1980American politician
- William Clarke1951-1996American blues harmonica player
- Dave Marshall1943-2019American baseball player
- Montrose Hagins1917-2012American actress
- Stella Garcia1942-2006American actress (born 1942)
- Tom Morgan1930-1987American baseball player and coach
- Bill Stits1931-2011American football player
- Curley Stecker1892-1924American animal trainer
- Herschel Green1920-2006Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
- Peter Daland1921-2014American swimming coach
- Amber E. Robinson1867-1961American teacher, poet, reporter, temperance activist
- Norm Verry1922-1961American football player
- Alice Helen Liu1952-1973American murder victim
- Benito Tan1946-2016Filipino botanist
- Charlotte Harris1930-2019Cellist
- Julian Wolkovitch1932-1991American aerospace engineer and engineer
- Robert Jani1934-1989American businessman
- Wen-yuan Qian1936-2003Chinese-American historian
- Cady C. Kenney1887-1964American pianist, organist, and composer
- Donald Holt Loughridge1899-1974Ph.D. California Institute of Technology 1927
- Ellen Craft Dammond1916-2007American social worker
- George Gibbs1878-1950American landscape architect
- John William Logan1924-1972American actor
- Malcolm C. Todd1913-2000American physician
- Nancynell Swaffield Bogdanovich1916-1985
- Richard Butwell1929-1987Southeast Asianist
- William Kochiyama1921-1993American soldier
- Zel Eugene Talbert1869-1954American artist
People whose Wikidata entry gives Green Hills 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.
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What Green Hills 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
- Wilmington CemeteryCarson, CACemetery3.7 mi
- Harbor View Memorial ParkLong Beach, CAMemorial park3.8 mi
- K-9 Command CemeteryRancho Palos Verdes, CACemetery4.3 mi
- Roosevelt Memorial ParkGardena, CAMemorial park6.4 mi
- Pet Haven Cemetery18300 South Figueroa Street, Gardena, CAPet cemetery6.6 mi
- Pacific Crest CemeteryLawndale, CACemetery7.0 mi
- Civil War vet burialsSignal Hill, CACemetery8.0 mi
- Sunnyside CemeterySignal Hill, CACemetery8.1 mi
- Long Beach Municipal CemeterySignal Hill, CAMunicipal cemetery8.2 mi
- Lincoln Memorial ParkWest Rancho Dominguez, CAMemorial park8.3 mi
Funeral homes near Green Hills Memorial Park
- Green Hills Mortuary & Memorial Chapel0.2 miMortuary · Rancho Palos Verdes · (310) 831-0311
- F.L Curry Funeral Home LLC.1.0 miFuneral home · Lomita · (310) 325-1954
- Coastal Funeral Center1.8 miFuneral home · Lomita · (310) 326-6343
- McNerney's Mortuary2.7 miMortuary · San Pedro · (310) 832-8351
- Funeraria del Angel Wilmington3.3 miFuneral home · Wilmington · (310) 834-8531
- Natural Grace Funerals And Cremations3.4 miFuneral home · Rancho Palos Verdes · (310) 684-3086
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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