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• Akers, Andra    b. September 16, 1943  d. March 20, 2002
  Actress. A blonde character actor, she usually portrayed brassy sidekicks or tough businesswomen. She appeared in the films "Murder a la Mod" (1968), "The Wedding Party" (1969), "Moment by Moment" (1978), "E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind" (1984), "Desert Hearts" (1985), "Just Between Friends" (1986), "Odd Jobs" (1986), and "Nothing in Common" (1986), as well as the television movies "Copacabana" (1985) and "Killer in the Mirror" (1986). She also appeared in guest roles in a number...[Read More] (Bio by: Jen Snoots)
  Berkeley Memorial Cemetery, Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Frissell, Varick [cenotaph]    b. August 29, 1903  d. March 15, 1931
  Motion Picture Director. The son of a wealthy banker, he grew up in New York's Upper East Side and studied at Yale. He became interested in filmaking after seeing "Nanook of the North" (1922) and meeting its director, Robert Flaherty. On the strength of two short documentaries, "The Lure of Labrador" (1926) and "The Swilin' Racket" (1928), Frissell got backing from Paramount Pictures for a feature, "The Viking"...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Berkeley Memorial Cemetery, Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Mdivani, Serge   b. 1904  d. March 15, 1936
  Georgian Nobleman. He fled with his siblings to Paris at the time of the Russian Revolution. Along with his two brothers and two sisters they became known as the "Marrying Mdivanis" because they all chose wealthy and well-known spouses. His brothers' wives included Barbara Hutton and actress Mae Murray, and one of his sisters married a son of writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Mdivani married actress [Read More] (Bio by: Jen Snoots)
  Berkeley Memorial Cemetery, Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Pell, Claiborne de Borda    b. November 22, 1918  d. January 1, 2009
  US Senator. An heir to the Lorillard Tobacco fortune, he was married to Nuala O'Donnell, one of the heirs to the A&P fortune. Pell graduated from Princeton University in 1940 and served in the Coast Guard during World War II, afterwards remaining in the Coast Guard Reserve. He received a master's degree from Columbia University in 1946 and became a State Department foreign service officer, serving in Europe and Washington. In 1960 he ran successfully for the Senate as a Democrat. Pell won...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
  Berkeley Memorial Cemetery, Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Pope, John Russell    b. April 24, 1874  d. August 27, 1937
  Architect. He studied architecture at Columbia University, graduating in 1894. In 1895 he was the recipient of the McKim Travelling Fellowship and a fellowship to attend the American Academy in Rome. Using his travel fellowship, he travelled through Italy and Greece studying the buildings that would later influence his architectural style. Following his studies in Rome, he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He returned to the United States in 1900, working for three years for Bruce...[Read More] (Bio by: Jen Snoots)
  Berkeley Memorial Cemetery, Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Pumpelly, Raphael    b. September 8, 1837  d. August 10, 1923
  Geologist. An 1859 graduate of the Royal School of Mines in Freiburg, Germany, he began his career directing the development of Arizona silver mines and working as a consulting geologist to the government of Japan. During 1864 and 1865 he was the first person to conduct a thorough survey of the Gobi Desert. Other scientific explorations he undertook during his career were done in China, Russia, Siberia, Mongolia and countless other locations around the world. From 1866 to 1875 he served as the...[Read More] (Bio by: Jen Snoots)
  Berkeley Memorial Cemetery, Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Van Alen, Gen. James Henry [cenotaph]    b. August 17, 1819  d. July 22, 1886
  Civil War Union Brigadier General. During the Civil War, he organized and equipped the 3rd New York Cavalry (also known as the Van Alen Cavalry) and received a commission as its Colonel on August 28, 1861. He received a commission as a Brigadier General on April 15, 1862. Due to illness he resigned from service on July 14, 1863. A man of wealth, he travelled extensively after his service. While sailing from Liverpool to New York aboard the Umbria, he fell overboard. His body was never recovered...[Read More] (Bio by: Jen Snoots)
  Berkeley Memorial Cemetery, Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
  Plot: Cenotaph in Van Alen plot
   
• Van Alen, Jimmy    b. September 19, 1902  d. July 3, 1991
  Professional Tennis Player. A national court tennis champion, he created the VASSS (Van Alen Streamlined Scoring System) which introduced the tie-breaker into the sport. He founded the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island in 1954. He himself was inducted in 1965. (Bio by: Jen Snoots)
  Berkeley Memorial Cemetery, Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Yarnell, Adm. Harry Ervin    b. October 18, 1875  d. July 7, 1959
  US Navy Admiral. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1897 and served in Cuba and the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. During the Boxer Rebellion he served with the Asiatic Squadron. He graduated from the Naval War College in 1915. During World War I he served on the staff of Admiral William Sims and commanded the gunboat USS Nashville in the Mediterranean, receiving the Navy Cross. He attained the rank of Rear Admiral in 1928 as Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering. In 1936...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
  Berkeley Memorial Cemetery, Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
   

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