About Forest Park Cemetery
Forest Park Cemetery is a cemetery near Houston, Harris County, Texas. It lies about 4.8 mi northwest of Houston. Wikidata records 53 notable people buried here, including Lightnin' Hopkins, Maggie Blye and Red Adair. The nearest other listed cemetery is Forest Park Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is Forest Park Lawndale Funeral Home & Forest Park Lawndale in Houston, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 166 cemeteries we list in Harris County, and 39 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Harris County dates to 1871. 7 of the 166 listings in Harris County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Houston. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Forest Park Cemetery
Among them: 8 baseball players, 8 business leaders, 5 actors, 4 musicians, 4 World War II veterans, 2 inventors and engineers, 2 scientists, 2 US representatives.
- Lightnin' Hopkins1912-1982American country blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
- Maggie Blye1939-2016American actress
- Red Adair1915-2004Firefighter
- Trey Wilson1948-1989American actor
- Jesse H. Jones1874-1956American politician and entrepreneur
- Lester R. Ford1886-1967American mathematician
- Larry Blyden1925-1975American game show host
- Sam Flint1882-1980American actor
- Thomas Henry Ball1859-1944American politician
- Daniel E. Garrett1869-1932American politician
- Ted Daffan1912-1996American country musician
- Dominique de Menil1908-1997American art collector
Show all 53 notable burials
- Donald Eugene Chambers1930-1999American founder of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club
- Richard A. Anderson1948-1969United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
- Eddie Dyer1899-1964American baseball player
- Anthony Young1966-2017American baseball pitcher
- Charles F. Roos1901-1958American economist
- Dickey Kerr1893-1963American baseball player
- Frank Mancuso1918-2007American baseball player
- Joe Bowman1925-2009Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
- John Henry Kirby1860-1940American businessman
- Andrij Makarenko1886-1963
- Hamilton Nichols1924-2013American football player
- Jacques Abram1915-1998American musician
- James Marion West Jr.1903-1957Texas oilman
- James Marion West Sr.1871-1941American businessman
- Jermayne MacAgy1914-1964American art historian
- Red Munger1918-1996American baseball player
- Frank Sterling1869-1938Businessman from the United States of America
- Homer H. Norton1896-1965American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach
- J. Searcy Bracewell, Jr.1918-2003American politician
- Joe Wood1919-1985American baseball player
- John Augustus Hulen1871-1957United States Army general
- Wayne McLeland1924-2004American baseball player
- Lucian N. Youngblood1918-1949Major in the United States Air Force and participant of the Doolittle Raid
- Vivian Leatherberry Smith1908-1989US philanthropist and businesswoman
- Walter Fondren, Sr.1877-1939American businessman
- Alvin R. Martin1916-1981American lawyer and naval officer
- C. Herbert Cowell1913-2007American architect
- Catherine Stephens1898-1989
- Homer Bruce1892-1977American lawyer
- Ione Jordan1904-1989
- J. H. Giesey1861-1938American architect
- Jack Smyth Josey1916-2003Oil magnate, philanthropist, and WWII vet
- Jennie Katherine Kolter1905-1959School teacher killed at Poe Elementary School, in Houston ISD
- John H. "Jack" Rafferty1896-1940First flood control engineer for the Harris County Flood Control District
- Marcellus E. Foster1870-1942American journalist and newspaper editor
- Presley Kittredge Ewing1860-1927American lawyer and judge
- Rana Fisher1972-2008American actress
- Rev. Paul Quillian1895-1949Methodist reverend in Texas
- Rubalee Hankamer1920-1984American botanical collector
- Samuel Gibbs Milliken1895-1945
People whose Wikidata entry gives Forest 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
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What Forest 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
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- Forest Park CemeteryHouston, TXCemetery0.7 mi
- Villa de Matel CemeteryHouston, TXCatholic cemetery0.7 mi
- Jackson CemeteryPasadena, TXCemetery1.3 mi
- Glendale CemeteryPasadena, TXCemetery1.8 mi
- Evergreen CemeteryHouston, TXCemetery1.9 mi
- Saint Vincent CemeteryHouston, TXCatholic cemetery3.8 mi
- Evergreen Negro CemeteryHouston, TXCemetery4.0 mi
- Crown Hill CemeteryPasadena, TXCemetery5.0 mi
- Founders Memorial CemeteryHouston, TXCemetery5.3 mi
Funeral homes near Forest Park Cemetery
- Forest Park Lawndale Funeral Home & Forest Park Lawndale0.3 miFuneral home · Houston · (713) 370-6713
- Schlitzberger and Daughters Monument Co.0.4 miMonument dealer · Houston · (713) 926-1785
- Funeraria Del Angel0.5 miFuneral home · Houston · (713) 644-1641
- Santana Funeral Directors1.6 miFuneral home · Houston · (713) 921-3000
- Compean Funeral Home1.6 miFuneral home · Houston · (713) 924-6900
- Skipper Lee & Sons Eternal Rest Funeral Home1.7 miFuneral home · Houston · (713) 644-1166
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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