About Oak Hill Memorial Park
Oak Hill Memorial Park is a memorial park near San Jose, Santa Clara County, California. It lies about 3.4 mi northwest of San Jose. It is operated by Oak Hill Funeral Home and Memorial Park. The grounds sit at about 135 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 75 notable people buried here, including Claudia Alexander, Sylvia Browne and William Hammond Wright. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 229857. The nearest other listed cemetery is Home of Peace Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Oak Hill Funeral Home & Memorial Park in San Jose, about 0.0 mi away. It is one of 23 cemeteries we list in Santa Clara County, and 11 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Santa Clara County dates to 1857. 8 of the 23 listings in Santa Clara County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, San Jose. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Oak Hill Memorial Park
Among them: 6 artists, 5 scientists, 4 business leaders, 4 journalists, 4 writers, 3 physicians, 3 US representatives, 2 football players.
- Claudia Alexander1959-2015American geophysicist and planetary scientist
- Sylvia Browne1936-2013American author, psychic and medium
- William Hammond Wright1871-1959American astronomer
- Rollo Beck1870-1950American explorer, ornithologist and bird collector
- Samuel M. Shortridge1861-1952American politician
- Hoang Xuan Lam1928-2017South Vietnamese commander
- Esto Bates Broughton1890-1956American lawyer, journalist, publicist, and politician
- Hal Chase1883-1947American baseball player, manager
- Arthur M. Free1879-1953American politician
- Everis A. Hayes1855-1942American politician
- John Smith Chipman1800-1869American politician
- Frank Delos Wolfe1862-1926American architect
Show all 75 notable burials
- James F. Reed1800-1874Irish-American businessman, soldier, and pioneer in the American West; organizing member of the Donner Party
- Nellie Blessing Eyster1836-1922American writer
- Charles Ellis Johnson1857-1926American photographer
- Elizabeth Eleanor D’Arcy Gaw1868-1944Canadian artist
- Frank Arellanes1882-1918Major League Baseball player
- Jean Jacques Vioget1794-1855Swiss surveyor
- John E. Richards1856-1932American judge
- John McNaught1849-1938American writer and editor
- Mary E. Pulsifer Ames1845-1902American botanist and meteorologist
- Walt McPherson1916-2013American basketball coach
- William P. Lyon1822-1913American politician
- Bruce Bliven1889-1977American writer and editor
- Charles Bradford Hudson1865-1939United States Fisheries Commission reporter, soldier and artist
- Charles Herman Allen1828-1904(1828-1904) President of San José State University
- Charles W. Childs1844-1922American educator, academic administrator
- Edward Alexander Walker1864-1946United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
- Francis Clark Murgotten1880-1960American language professor
- Fred J. Hart1888-1975American farmer and businessman
- Hovey C. McDonald1888-1941American sports coach
- John Balbach1820-1896German-born American settler in Santa Clara County, California (1820-1896 )
- Joseph S. Dixon1884-1952American zoologist
- Levi Goodrich1822-1887American architect
- Paul F. Clark1861-1932American politician
- Sara J. Dorr1855-1924American temperance leader
- Ambrose Hamilton Randall1839-1900
- American soldier
- Campbell Thomas Settle1825-1900American politician
- Charles Henry McKiernan1825-1892American settler
- Charles J. Martin1839-1912French-born American politician
- Charles Wesley Breyfogle1841-1895American mayor, physician, banker
- Coleman Younger1809-1890American farmer and politician
- Donald Clair Christopher1934-2022American garlic farmer
- Herbert C. Jones1880-1970American politician
- Hilman Walker1912-1983American football player and coach
- Horace Stevens1858-1920Newspaper reporter, government investigator, and author.
- John Heinlen1815-1903American rancher and landlord
- John Marion Murphy1824-1892Canadian-born American politician, businessman, settler in California
- Julius Klein1886-1961American historian
- Lawrence Archer1820-1910American politician, judge
- Lewis Ben Wilson1855-1924(1854-1924) acting president of the San Jose State Normal School from 1919 to 1920
- Paul Masson1859-1940French-American winemaker
- Samuel Newton Rucker1862-1921American politician
- Samuel Watson Boring1824-1903American politician
- Sarah Eleanor Bayliss Royce1819-1891American pioneer, teacher, and writer
- Virginia Reed Murphyborn 1834Donner party survivor
- Anna Hutchinson Searing1830-1912American doctor, teacher, botanist and mycologist
- Anne Backesto1836-1918Person
- Belle Butler1861-1922American prospector and rancher
- Cledo Brunetti1910-1971American electrical engineer
- Edna Bowman Kuhn1870-1947Californian namesake of Edna Lake
- Jack Bean1844-1923
- Jane E. Heinlen1829-1901
- Johann Albert Lotz1820-1905
- John Edmund Bacon1854-1909American photographer and artist
- John Peter Bubb1828-1921Owens Valley prospector
- John Pierre Backesto1831-1890American physician
- Louis Henning1886-1944American butcher
- Margaret Hart Surbeck1915-2000
- Marshal Hale, Sr.1809-1891
- Sedman Walter Wynne1883-1922Supervisor of Sequoia National Forest
- Solomon Howard1811-1873Sixth president of Ohio University, (b1811-d1873)
- Stephen A. Jones1848-1915Professor of languages and university president
- Winifred Gansel1907-2003Nurse and World War II veteran
People whose Wikidata entry gives Oak Hill 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 Oak Hill 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
- Home of Peace CemeterySan Jose, CA · est. 1857Jewish cemetery0.3 mi
- Chinese American CemeterySan Jose, CA · est. 1902Cemetery0.4 mi
- Calvary Cemetery2650 Madden Avenue, San Jose, CACatholic cemetery4.7 mi
- Santa Clara Catholic CemeterySanta Clara, CACatholic cemetery5.6 mi
- Mission City Memorial Park420 North Winchester Boulevard, Santa Clara, CAMemorial park5.6 mi
- Los Gatos Cemetery2255 Los Gatos Almaden Road, San Jose, CACemetery5.8 mi
- Hacienda Cemetery and Memorial ParkLos Gatos, CAMemorial park8.7 mi
- Agnews Historical Cemetery (not active)1250 Hope Drive, Santa Clara, CACemetery8.7 mi
- Old Mexican Cemetery (historical)Los Gatos, CACemetery8.7 mi
- Hidalgo Cemetery (historical)Los Gatos, CACemetery9.0 mi
Funeral homes near Oak Hill Memorial Park
- Oak Hill Funeral Home & Memorial Park0.0 miFuneral home · San Jose · (408) 297-2447
- Oak Hill Funeral Home0.3 miFuneral home · San Jose
- Chapel of the Roses0.3 miFuneral chapel · San Jose
- Honor Cremations0.5 miFuneral home · San Jose · (408) 645-5140
- Bay Area Mortuary Services1.0 miMortuary · San Jose · (408) 998-2202
- Lima Family Erickson Memorial Chapel2.1 miCremation provider · San Jose · (408) 295-5160
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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