About Myrtle Hill Memorial Park
Myrtle Hill Memorial Park is a memorial park near East Lake-Orient Park, Hillsborough County, Florida. It lies about 1.6 mi east of East Lake-Orient Park. The grounds sit at about 66 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 20 notable people buried here, including Henry King, Dennis Hoey and Sam Gibbons. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 298232. The nearest other listed cemetery is Rose Hill Memorial Park Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Blount & Curry Funeral Home at Garden of Memories in Tampa, about 0.6 mi away. It is one of 56 cemeteries we list in Hillsborough County, and 38 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 1 of the 56 listings in Hillsborough County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, East Lake-Orient Park. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Myrtle Hill Memorial Park
Among them: 3 actors, 3 football players, 3 writers, 2 basketball players, 2 World War I veterans, 2 World War II veterans, 1 baseball player, 1 governor.
- Henry King1886-1982American film director
- Dennis Hoey1893-1960British film actor
- Sam Gibbons1920-2012American politician
- Doyle E. Carlton1885-1972American politician
- Paul D. Adams1906-1987American general officer
- Joseph Smith1925-1983American bobsledder, born 1925
- Coe Glade1900-1985American opera singer
- Oliver Kuhn1898-1968American football player
- Dave Lewis1954-2020American football player
- Helen Davis1926-2015American drama teacher, actress and politician
- Doug Belden1927-1972American football player, quarterback
- Ildebrando Zacchini1868-1948Circus performer
Show all 20 notable burials
- Charles A. Turner1877-1943Inventor
- Norris W. Hensley1872-19402 Dec 1872 - 24 Oct 1940
- Adela Hernandez Gonzmart1920-2001American restaurateur
- John Munroe1892-1949American banker
- Lafayette McLaws1874-1944American novelist
- Lewis A. Barness1921-2013American pediatrician
- Miles C. Hartley1901-1989Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1933
People whose Wikidata entry gives Myrtle 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 Myrtle 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
- Rose Hill Memorial Park CemeteryEast Lake-Orient Park, FLMemorial park0.2 mi
- Centro Espanol CemeteryTemple Terrace, FLCemetery0.3 mi
- Orange Hill CemeteryTampa, FLCemetery0.4 mi
- Myrtle Hill CemeteryEast Lake-Orient Park, FLCemetery0.5 mi
- Garden of Memories CemeteryEast Lake-Orient Park, FLCemetery0.6 mi
- New Rodeph Sholom CemeteryEast Lake-Orient Park, FLCemetery0.6 mi
- Centro Asturiano CemeteryTemple Terrace, FLCemetery0.6 mi
- Rose Hills CemeteryEast Lake-Orient Park, FLCemetery0.7 mi
- Oakland CemeteryTampa, FLCemetery0.9 mi
- Jackson Heights CemeteryTampa, FLCemetery0.9 mi
Funeral homes near Myrtle Hill Memorial Park
- Blount & Curry Funeral Home at Garden of Memories0.6 miFuneral home · Tampa · (813) 626-3161
- Harmon Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · Tampa · (813) 626-8600
- Gudes Funeral Home1.0 miFuneral home · Tampa · (813) 626-5000
- Jackson Funeral Home1.1 miFuneral home · Tampa · (813) 239-3101
- Aikens Funeral Home1.5 miFuneral home · Tampa · (813) 232-8725
- Wilson Funeral Home1.7 miFuneral home · Tampa · (813) 248-6125
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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