Find A Grave - Home of Peace Memorial Park

Baskin, Burton b. December 17, 1913 d. December, 1967
Business Magnate. Together with his brother-in-law, Irving Robbins, he founded the Baskin Robbins 31 Flavors Ice Cream chain. In 2004, Baskin-Robbins served over 10 million customers per week around the world. (Bio by: Joe Walker)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Corridor of Peace E 119A, Main Mausoleum, around the corner from Shemp Howard
Berman, David b. 1903 d. June 16, 1957
Organized Crime Figure. Known as "Davie the Jew", Berman was an American mobster in Iowa, New York and Minnesota before becoming one of the pioneers of gambling alongside Bugsy Siegel at The Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. As a child, his family departed Russia for America and settled in South Dakota then moved to Sioux City, Iowa, where he got his start as a mobster. At the age of 13, he ran a crew of teenaged thugs committing petty shakedowns and eventually a string of illegal distilleries. He...[Read More] (Bio by: Louis Mata)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Mausoleum, Corridor of Eternal Peace, crypt 253
Berman, Susan b. May 18, 1945 d. December 24, 2000
Author, Murder Victim. Berman was the daughter of a mob figure who wrote extensively of her father, who replaced Bugsy Siegel in Las Vegas at the Flamingo Hotel after Siegel's 1947 murder. In 1981, she published the memoir "Easy Street" about her life. Berman was a reporter for The San Francisco Examiner and also wrote for "Francis Ford Coppola's City", the "Westinghouse Evening Show" on KPIX and the "People" show on CBS. She wrote for New York, Cosmopolitan and Family Circle magazines and also...[Read More] (Bio by: Louis Mata)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Corridor of Eternal Life, crypt 255
Bernstein, Thelma b. 1911 d. May 27, 2006
Actress and former singer. Born Thelma Goodman in New York City, she gained recognition on radio after singing in light opera. She was discovered in New York singing at a nightclub in the 1930's by a talent scout for RKO. She was placed under contract and was professionally known as 'Thelma Leeds' due to RKO changing her name. In 1936, she had a uncredited role in the musical "Follow the Fleet", which starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. In 1937, she had a supporting role in "The Toast of...[Read More] (Bio by: Allcalmap)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Chapel Mausoleum, Corridor of Eternal Life. Next to Harry Einstein,her first husband.
Brice, Fanny [original burial site] b. October 29, 1891 d. May 29, 1951
Entertainer. Born Fannie Borach, the daughter of saloon proprietors, she began entertaining at an early age, as she sang to patrons at her parent's establishment. She had a knack for pulling pranks and a desire to have a career in show business. Brice (whom took the last name of a family friend) left school prior to turning fourteen and entered numerous amateur contests as a singer. She was good enough to earn a steady income averaging thirty dollars per week in prize money and her career...[Read More]
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burston, Louis b. 1877 d. March 25, 1923
Motion Picture Producer. Born Louis Burstein in Russia, he entered American films as a writer and established the Vim Comedy Film Company in Jacksonville, Florida in 1915. He cranked out over 200 slapstick one-reelers, many starring Chaplin imitator Billy West and a pre-Laurel Oliver Hardy, who was paired with Billy Ruge in the "Plump and...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section C, Plot 45, Grave 2
Carter, Boake b. 1900 d. November 16, 1944
Journalist. One of America's preeminent news commentators of the 1930s, he helped make political punditry a commercial success on the radio. He was born Harold Thomas Henry Carter in Baku, Russia, where his father was on staff at the British Consulate. "Boake" was an old English name from his mother's side. After studying at Christ College, Cambridge, he moved to the United States in 1920 and became a citizen in 1932. Getting his start as a reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News, he began his...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Mausoleum, Corridor of Harmony, Crypt 219 NE
Clayton, Lou b. 1890 d. September 12, 1950
Entertainer. Born Louis Finkelstein in Brooklyn, he first won fame as a soft-shoe dancer in vaudeville and by 1921 was headlining at New York's Palace Theatre. In 1923 he hooked up with comedian Jimmy Durante and singer Eddie Jackson to form the musical comedy team Clayton, Jackson & Durante, and together they opened the Club Durant in...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Mausoleum, Corridor of Immortality, Crypt 212 NW
Cohn, Jack B. b. 1906 d. July 23, 1947
Composer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he was a classical music composer and Broadway orchestrator. Writing scores for the early film industry, together with his brother Harry Cohn and Joseph Brandt, they started their own company in 1920, which became Columbia Pictures in 1924. He died in Los Angeles, California. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Mausoleum, Corridor of Solace, Crypt 201 NE
Einstein, Harry b. May 6, 1904 d. November 24, 1958
Entertainer. Born in Boston, he started out in vaudeville and nightclubs as a dialect comedian, often billed as Harry Parke. During the 1930s he was known to millions of radio listeners as Parkyakarkus, a florid Greek lunch counter proprietor who delighted in mangling the English language. Einstein created the character for "The Eddie Cantor Show" and parlayed it into a regular spot on Al Jolson's radio program (1936 to 1939). At one point he tried to get his name legally changed to...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Chapel Mausoleum, Corridor of Eternal Life, C-248
Forbstein, Leo F. b. October 16, 1892 d. March 16, 1948
Film Composer, Conductor. Born in St. Louis, he began playing the violin at age four and became Music Director of Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood in 1922. As head of the Warner Bros. Music Department from 1926 until his death, Forbstein arranged and conducted the scores for hundreds of Warner films and was largely responsible for their distinctive brassy sound. He brought composers Max Steiner and [Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Cause of death: Heart attack
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Mausoleum, Corridor of Immortality, Crypt 205 SW
Freeman, Al b. 1883 d. March 22, 1956
Actor and writer.
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Mausoleum, Corridor of Immortality, Crypt 112B NW
Freeman, Harold M. b. 1916 d. August 18, 1944
Screenwriter.
Cause of death: Killed in action in WWII
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Mausoleum, Corridor of Immortality, Crypt 112B NW
Gordon, Mack b. June 21, 1904 d. February 28, 1959
Highly prolific, Oscar-winning lyricist/songrwriter/composer of the 1920s through 1950s. He was the long-time songwriting partner of Harry Warren. Some of his timeless tunes include "At Last," "Chattanooga Choo-Choo," "I've Got a Gal In Kalamazoo," "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming," "You'll Never Know," "You Make Me Feel So Young," and "There Will Never Be Another You," among many others. His songs...[Read More] (Bio by: A.J. Marik)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Corridor of Immortality, Crypt 50
Howard (Horwitz), Curly (Jerome Lester) b. October 22, 1903 d. January 18, 1952
Actor. He was the youngest of Jennie and Solomon Horwitz's five sons, and because of his status as family baby, his mother would often call him "My baby," leading his four much-older brothers to tease him by calling him Baby and later Babe, a nickname he later grew to like so much he often went by it. As a very young child he was already interested in performing, appearing in small home theatrical productions with his older brothers Moe and Shemp. He idolized these two brothers, even though he...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
Cause of death: Complications from a stroke
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Western Jewish Institute Section, Row 5, Grave 1
GPS coordinates: 34.0208206, -118.1768570 (hddd.dddd)
Howard (Horwitz), Shemp (Samuel) b. March 17, 1895 d. November 23, 1955
Actor, Comedian. He achieved legend status as a member of the "Three Stooges" comedy team. Born Samuel Horwitz in Brooklyn, New York in 1895, he was nicknamed "Shemp" at an early age due to his mother's accent. He worked with his brother Moses "Moe" Horowitz in various amateur and vaudeville performance acts until 1922, when a former school mate and vaudeville comedian, Ted Healy, was playing at the Brooklyn Prospect Theater and needed a replacement in his current act. Moe and Shemp Howard...[Read More]
Cause of death: Heart attack
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: In Mausoleum-Second Tier from the bottom
Kahn, Ivan b. December 8, 1890 d. April 4, 1951
American Director, Screenwriter, Talent Scout and Agent. In 1924, Kahn created and directed the "Kahn Kid Komedies", a series featuring a group of child actors. In 1929, he established the Ivan Kahn Agency where he was successful at finding new talent. Darryl F. Zanuck signed him as a talent scout for 20th Century-Fox in 1937, a post he held until his death. During the 1930s and 40s, among those whom Kahn discovered and nurtured the careers of were Olivia de Havilland, Joe E. Brown, Dana...[Read More] (Bio by: Louis Mata)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Behrendt Family Mausoleum
Laemmle Jr., Carl b. April 28, 1908 d. September 24, 1979
Motion Picture Producer, Studio Executive. The son of Universal Studios founder Carl Laemmle, he supervised the production of short subjects as a teen and was appointed President of the company on his 21st birthday. He initiated a program to upgrade the quality of the studio's films and one of his first projects, "All Quiet On the Western Front" (1930), won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Universal's legendary cycle of...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Chapel Mausoleum
Laemmle, Carl b. January 17, 1867 d. September 24, 1939
Motion Picture Pioneer. Founder of Universal Studios. Born in Laupheim, Germany, he left school at 13 and arrived in Chicago in 1884 to seek his fortune. He studied accounting and became manager of a clothing store in Oshkosh, Nebraska, before returning to Chicago in 1905 to set up a retail shop. While looking for a suitable location, Laemmle grew intrigued by the crowds he saw lining up outside the city's many storefront nickelodeons. He opened his own Chicago cinema, the White Front...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Chapel Mausoleum
Louise, Ruth Harriet b. January 13, 1903 d. October 12, 1940
Portrait Photographer. Born Ruth Goldstein in New York City, to Rabbi Jacob Goldstein and Klara Jacobsen Goldstein. Her brother was film writer-director Mark Sandrich and her cousin was silent film actress Carmel Meyers. Her father accepted a position with Temple Anshe Emeth in New Brusnwick, New Jersey, moving the family there in 1921. It was...[Read More] (Bio by: James Lacy)
Home of Peace Memorial Park, East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Half Block, Plot 12, Row 6, Grave 1

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