About Sparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park
Sparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park is a memorial park near Dallas, Dallas County, Texas. It lies about 6.1 mi south of Dallas. The grounds sit at about 640 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 67 notable people buried here, including Jack Kilby, Ross Perot and Freddie King. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1337802. The nearest other listed cemetery is Daniel Cemetery, about 1.3 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Sparkman Hillcrest Funeral Home in Dallas, about 0.1 mi away. It is one of 134 cemeteries we list in Dallas County, and 63 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 8 of the 134 listings in Dallas County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Dallas. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Sparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park
Among them: 7 business leaders, 5 football players, 3 scientists, 3 World War II veterans, 3 writers, 2 artists, 2 baseball players, 2 musicians.
- Jack Kilby1923-2005American electrical engineer
- Ross Perot1930-2019American businessman and politician
- Freddie King1934-1976American blues guitarist and singer
- Robert S. Strauss1918-2014American diplomat
- Charles Caldwell Ryrie1925-2016Dispensationalist theologian
- Henry Wade1914-2001American lawyer
- J. Erik Jonsson1901-1995American businessperson and politician
- Joseph Weldon Bailey, Jr.1892-1943American politician
- Les Elgart1917-1995American swing jazz bandleader and trumpeter
- George S. Phalen1911-1998American hand surgeon
- Harold Simmons1931-2013American businessman and financier, developer of the leveraged buyout
- Clint Murchison, Jr.1923-1987American football executive
Show all 67 notable burials
- David Harold Byrd1900-1986Petroleum producer
- Neel E. Kearby1911-1944United States Army Air Forces Medal of Honor recipient
- Robert William Porter1926-1991United States federal judge
- William Hawley Atwell1869-1961United States federal judge
- Cloyce Box1923-1993American football player
- Columbus Marion Joiner1860-1947American businessman
- Everette Lee DeGolyer1886-1956American geophysicist and philanthropist
- Jack Wilson1917-2001American football halfback
- Bubber Jonnard1897-1977American baseball player and coach
- Dusty Boggess1904-1968American baseball umpire
- Eugene McDermott1899-1973American geophysicist and businessman
- Frances Mossiker1906-1985American writer
- J. Burton Rix1882-1964American football player and coach, basketball coach, baseball, college athletics administrator
- Joe S. Lawrie1914-2009U.S. Army major general
- John J. Welch, Jr.1930-2010American scientist
- Rusty Russell1895-1983American football player and coach
- Tom Franckhauser1937-1997American football player, cornerback
- Algur H. Meadows1899-1978American oilman, art collector and philanthropist
- Antonie Kendrick1872-1955Czech American translator and author
- Fred Farrel Florence1891-1960American banker and civic leader
- Herbert Marcus1878-1950American businessman
- Jack Barton Story1904-1967(1904-1967) American aviator
- Jesse Claude Wetsel1910-1980American football player
- Luther Judson Higginbotham1886-1961American photographer and postcard publisher
- Preston Jones1936-1979American playwright
- Ralph B. Rogers1909-1997American businessman
- Troy Victor Post1906-1998Chairman of Greatamerica Corporation
- Albert H. Halff1915-2013Civil engineer
- Andrew J. Thuss Jr.1895-1959American lawyer
- Barry Gardner1939-1996
- Bess Wilson1883-1966Heiress, socialite
- Cadis Lindsley1897-1957
- Duane Kearns Puryear1964-1991Contributor to the AIDS Memorial Quilt
- Earle Clark Caruth1884-1958Dallas socialite
- Edward Henry Cary1872-1953American physician
- Eugene Hammond Crowdus1859-1917Dallas businessman
- Everett L. DeGolyer Jr.1923-1977Born 1923; died 1977
- Felix D. Robertson1871-1941American judge and gubernatorial candidate
- Georgie Fonda Schneider1884-1970
- Henry Dickinson Lindsley1895-1973
- Henry M. Halff1942-2015Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin 1969
- Jack Wrather Jr.1944-1973
- Jerry E. Drake1907-1997
- John G. Mahler1907-19921907-1992
- Leslie Waggener Jr.1876-1951American banker
- Lois Swan Jones1927-2006Librarian
- Mattie Caruth1908-1972Heiress
- Nell Goodrich DeGolyer1886-1972American philanthropist
- Nell Virginia DeGolyer1913-1988
- Perry C. Talkingten1909-1996American psychiatrist
- Roy R. Ray1902-1994Law professor
- W. W. Caruth1876-1949American rancher and philanthropist
- William Barr Caruth1827-1885
- William Richey Hogg1921-2005Missionary
- William Walter Caruth Jr.1912-1990Billionaire Dallas heir
People whose Wikidata entry gives Sparkman Hillcrest 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 Sparkman Hillcrest 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
- Daniel CemeteryDallas, TXCemetery1.3 mi
- Fields CemeteryRichardson, TXCemetery2.8 mi
- Cochran Chapel CemeteryDallas, TXChurch cemetery3.3 mi
- Cox CemeteryDallas, TXCemetery3.4 mi
- Garvin Memorial CemeteryDallas, TXCemetery3.8 mi
- McCree CemeteryRichardson, TXCemetery3.9 mi
- Merrell CemeteryFarmers Branch, TXCemetery3.9 mi
- Mount Calvary CemeteryRichardson, TXCemetery4.1 mi
- Northaven ParkFarmers Branch, TXCemetery4.5 mi
- Freedman's Memorial CemeteryDallas, TXChristian cemetery4.6 mi
Funeral homes near Sparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park
- Sparkman Hillcrest Funeral Home0.1 miFuneral home · Dallas · (214) 363-5401
- Martin Oaks Cemetery & Crematory0.8 miCremation provider · Dallas · (972) 434-1121
- aCremation Dallas2.4 miCremation provider · Dallas · (972) 805-4525
- Local Cremation2.4 miCremation provider · Dallas · (214) 343-4040
- Eternal Cremations3.5 miCremation provider · Dallas · (972) 532-2340
- Solid Rock Monument3.5 miMonument dealer · Dallas · (972) 850-8057
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