Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery
Elks Pavilion
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Location	Santa Monica, California
Country	United States
Coordinates	34°01′03″N 118°28′30″W / 34.01750°N 118.47500°W / 34.01750; -118.47500
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Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary, formerly Ballona Cemetery, is located at 1847 14th Street, alongside Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, California, United States. The cemetery was founded in 1897 and sits on 26 acres. ^[1] It is owned and operated by the city of Santa Monica and is the final resting place of more than 54,000 people. ^[2] The cemetery has an eco-friendly section. ^[3]

History

Founded in 1897, the cemetery was first named the Ballona Township Cemetery as it was located on the Rancho La Ballona. ^{[1] [4]} In the 1980s, it began to be used as a filming location. ^[5] In the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the cemetery was damaged. ^[6]

Notable burials

• Hugo Ballin (1879–1956), artist
• Mabel Ballin (1887–1958), actress
• George Bancroft (1882–1956), actor
• Jay Belasco (1888–1949), actor
• Ted Bessell (1935–1996), actor
• Charles Bickford (1891–1967), actor
• Barbara Billingsley (1915–2010), actress
• William Bishop (1918–1959), actor
• Roberts Blossom (1924–2011), actor
• Bonnie Bonnell (1905–1964), actress
• Edwina Booth (1904–1991), actress
• Edward Brophy (1895–1960), actor
• Leo Carrillo (1880–1961), actor and conservationist
• Henry Cuesta (1931–2003), musician
• Faye Dancer (1925–2002), professional baseball player
• Henry Daniell (1894–1963), actor
• Weston and Winston Doty (1913–1934), acting twins, drowned in a flood
• Cathy Downs (1924–1976), actress
• Vernon Duke (1893–1969), songwriter (later moved)
• Lion Feuchtwanger (1884–1958), author
• Paul Fix (1901–1983), actor
• Glenn Ford (1916–2006), actor
• Leland Ford (1893–1965), congressman
• Nicolás "Nick" Rolando Gabaldón Jr. (1927–1951), surfer
• Ilka Grüning (1876–1964), actress
• William Haines (1900–1973), actor, interior designer
• Tom Hayden (1939–2016), Senator, activist, author, conservationist
• Paul Henreid (1908–1992), actor, director

  

• Phil Hill (1927–2008), race car driver
• Evelyn Hooker (1907–1996), psychologist
• Olaf Hytten (1888–1955), actor
• Abbot Kinney (1850–1920), real estate baron
• Harvey Korman (1927–2008), actor and comedian
• Henry Kuttner (1915–1958), author
• Florence Lake (1904–1980), actress
• Audra Lindley (1918–1997), actress

• Hughie Mack (1884–1927), actor
• Doug McClure (1935–1995), actor
• Micole Mercurio (1938–2016), actress
• Bess Myerson (1924–2014), actress, Miss America, political activist
• Red Norvo (1908–1999), jazz musician
• Lynne Overman (1887–1943), actor
• Christabel Pankhurst (1880–1958), British suffragette
• Jimmy Phipps (1950–1969), Vietnam Medal of Honor recipient
• James Poe (1921–1980), screenwriter
• Janos Prohaska (1919–1974), actor, stuntman
• Bill Raisch (1905–1984), actor
• Sally Ride (1951–2012), astronaut and physicist
• Blanche Robinson (1883–1969), pianist and composer
• Irene Ryan (1902–1973), actress and comedian
• Mitchell Ryan (1934–2022), actor
• Hayes "Big Ed" Sanders (1930–1954), Olympic boxing champion
• E. C. Segar (1894–1938), cartoonist, creator of " Popeye"
• Jimmie Shields (1905–1974), interior designer
• Hal Smith (1916–1994), actor who played Otis Campbell on The Andy Griffith Show
• May Sutton (1886–1975), U.S. and Wimbledon tennis champion
• Sándor Szabó (1906–1966), wrestler
• William Tuttle (1912–2007), make-up artist
• Jesse Unruh (1922–1987), politician and government official

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica.

• Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery at Find a Grave
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Woodlawn Cemetery