About Sharon Memorial Park
Sharon Memorial Park is a memorial park near Sharon, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. It lies about 1.5 mi south of Sharon. The grounds sit at about 200 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 29 notable people buried here, including Simon Kuznets, Barry Newman and Daniel Lewin. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 599581. The nearest other listed cemetery is Chestnut Hill Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Dockray & Thomas Funeral Home in Canton, about 1.3 mi away. It is one of 124 cemeteries we list in Norfolk County, and 133 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Norfolk County dates to 1651. 12 of the 124 listings in Norfolk County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Sharon. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Sharon Memorial Park
Among them: 4 business leaders, 3 scientists, 2 journalists, 1 actor, 1 architect, 1 inventor or engineer, 1 musician, 1 Nobel laureate.
- Simon Kuznets1901-1985Russian-born American economist and statistician
- Barry Newman1930-2023American film, television, and stage actor
- Daniel Lewin1970-2001American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur
- Sumner Redstone1923-2020American businessman and media magnate
- Irving Fine1914-1962American composer
- Maurice Auslander1926-1994American mathematician and professor
- Harry Wexler1911-1962American meteorologist
- Nahum Norbert Glatzer1903-1990Jewish literary scholar, theologian, and editor
- Simon Rawidowicz1896-1957American philosopher
- Jerome Namias1910-1997US meteorologist
- Albert Maysles1926-2015American documentary filmmaker; half of the duo Albert and David Maysles
- Arthur S. Obermayer1931-2016American entrepreneur
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- William Rosenberg1916-2002American businessman
- David Maysles1931-1987American film director and cinematographer
- Sumner Z. Kaplan1920-2011Politician in Massachusetts, US
- Elizabeth Glaser1947-1994American AIDS activist and child advocate
- Robert Goldwyn1930-2010American surgeon, author and activist
- Victor Starr1909-1976American meteorologist
- Joseph Linsey1899-1994American mobster
- Leonard Rapping1934-1991American economist
- Myer M. Kessler1917-1997Information scientist
- Yakov Svirsky1902-1984Russian architect
- Bernard David Seckler1925-2020Math reader for Recordings for the Blind
- Evelyn Alda Seckler1926-2020Victim of the coronavirus pandemic
- Harry Shwachman1910-1986American clinical nutritionist and cystic fibrosis researcher
- Irvin Lavine1902-1980American engineer
- Leon Charif1883-1942Jewish educator in Boston
- Richard Leon Faber1940-2011Ph.D. Brandeis University 1965
- Samuel A. Latt1938-1988American cytogeneticist
People whose Wikidata entry gives Sharon 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
42.14565, -71.17394
What Sharon 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
- Chestnut Hill CemeterySharon, MACemetery0.3 mi
- Knollwood Memorial ParkCanton, MAMemorial park0.4 mi
- Moose Hill CemeterySharon, MACemetery1.9 mi
- East Walpole CemeteryWalpole, MACemetery2.2 mi
- Methodist Meeting House Cemetery C 1823Central St, West Stoughton, MA · est. 1823Methodist cemetery2.4 mi
- Rock Ridge CemeterySharon, MACemetery2.4 mi
- Saint Mary's CemeteryCanton, MACemetery3.0 mi
- Canton CemeteryCanton, MACemetery3.2 mi
- Guild CemeteryWalpole, MACemetery3.3 mi
- Maple Grove CemeteryWalpole, MACemetery3.4 mi
Funeral homes near Sharon Memorial Park
- Dockray & Thomas Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Canton · (781) 828-0811
- Stanetsky Memorial Chapels1.3 miFuneral home · Canton · (781) 821-4600
- Schlossberg Family's Chapel on the Hill1.8 miFuneral home · Canton · (781) 828-6990
- Pushard Family Funeral Home2.0 miFuneral home · Canton · (781) 828-2929
- Kraw-Kornack Funeral Home2.6 miFuneral home · Norwood · (781) 762-0482
- Gillooly Funeral Home3.4 miFuneral home · Norwood · (781) 762-0174
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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