About Austin Memorial Park Cemetery
Austin Memorial Park Cemetery is a memorial park in Austin, Travis County, Texas. It is operated by Austin Parks and Recreation Department. The grounds sit at about 682 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 36 notable people buried here, including John B. Goodenough, Zachary Scott and Richard LeParmentier. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1329850. The nearest other listed cemetery is George W. Davis Cemetery, about 1.0 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Weed Corley Fish Funeral Homes and Cremation Services in Austin, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 141 cemeteries we list in Travis County, and 60 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 58 of the 141 listings in Travis County have a phone number or website on record.
Notable people buried at Austin Memorial Park Cemetery
Among them: 10 scientists, 4 actors, 4 baseball players, 2 football players, 1 artist, 1 basketball player, 1 inventor or engineer, 1 musician.
- John B. Goodenough1922-2023American materials scientist
- Zachary Scott1914-1965American actor
- Richard LeParmentier1946-2013American actor
- Frank Hamer1884-1955(1884-1955) American lawman
- R. L. Moore1882-1974American mathematician
- Steve Barton1954-2001American actor/singer
- Harry Vandiver1882-1973American mathematician
- Alfred Schild1921-1977American physicist
- Jane Mouton1930-1987American academic
- Theophilus Painter1889-1969American zoologist
- Bibb Falk1899-1989American baseball player
- Ben Breedlove1993-2011Vlogger
Show all 36 notable burials
- Chief Wilson1883-1954American baseball player
- Tito Goya1951-1985American actor
- Robert C. Eckhardt1913-2001American politician
- Elias Howard Sellards1875-1961American paleontologist
- Grady Higginbotham1898-1989American athlete and coach
- Zarh Pritchard1866-1956British-American artist
- Aaron Bar-Adon1923-20211923-2021
- Clyde Littlefield1892-1981American football player and coach
- Dana X. Bible1891-1980American sports coach, athletics administrator
- Ed Price1909-1976American football player and coach
- Harvey Penick1904-1995Golf instructor, golf coach, sportswriter
- Mike Campbell1922-1998American football player and coach
- Willie Zapalac1920-2010American football coach
- Friedrich Walter Lenz1896-1969German-born American classical philologist
- L. William Caine1892-1945College football coach
- Addison E. Lee1914-1992American science education and botany educator
- Alonzo Bettis Cox1884-1968Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison 1920
- Baxter Frank Womack1930-2021Ph.D. Purdue University 1963
- Carl Clarence Albers1898-1967American pharmacologist and botanical collector
- Dolan H. Eargle1905-1973American researcher and geologist
- Glenn Warren Goldsmith1886-1943American professor of botany at the University of Texas
- Harry P. Allen1938-2019Ph.D. Yale University 1965
- Margaret Carrington Moore1896-1995American nurse and writer
- May Hickey Maria1904-2001Ph.D. Rice University 1929
People whose Wikidata entry gives Austin Memorial Park Cemetery 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
30.33162, -97.75253
What Austin Memorial Park Cemetery 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
- George W. Davis CemeteryAustin, TXCemetery1.0 mi
- Austin State Hospital CemeteryAustin, TXCemetery2.0 mi
- Austin State School CemeteryAustin, TXCemetery2.1 mi
- Saint Pauls Baptist Church CemeteryAustin, TXBaptist cemetery2.8 mi
- Mount Calvary CemeteryAustin, TXCemetery3.6 mi
- Oakwood CemeteryAustin, TXMunicipal cemetery4.1 mi
- Jackson Family CemeteryRollingwood, TXFamily cemetery4.1 mi
- Oakwood Annex CemeteryAustin, TXMunicipal cemetery4.1 mi
- Fiskville CemeteryAustin, TXCemetery4.2 mi
- Preece CemeteryAustin, TXCemetery4.3 mi
Funeral homes near Austin Memorial Park Cemetery
- Weed Corley Fish Funeral Homes and Cremation Services0.5 miFuneral home · Austin · (512) 452-8811
- Lone Star Mortuary Service1.7 miMortuary · Austin · (512) 420-8612
- Cook-Walden Funeral Home1.7 miFuneral home · Austin · (512) 454-5611
- Austin Cremations And Funeral Home1.7 miFuneral home · Austin · (512) 579-0154
- Austin Natural Funerals1.7 miFuneral home · Austin · (512) 851-1236
- Lonestar funeral2.0 miFuneral home · Austin · (512) 766-6759
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Austin Memorial Park Cemetery located?
Austin Memorial Park Cemetery is at 3000 Hancock Drive, Austin, TX 78731 in Travis County. GPS coordinates: 30.33162, -97.75253.
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