Graham, Barbara Elaine 'Bonnie' b. June 26, 1923 d. June 3, 1955 Convicted murderer of Mabel Monahan. There is speculation as to her guilt or innocence. Her story was told in the 1958 movie "I Want To Live," starring Susan Hayward as Graham and a remake in the 1980s starring Lindsey Wagner. Cause of death: Executed by gas chamber Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery, San Rafael, Marin County, California, USA Plot: Sec D 551
Leone, Maria b. March 5, 1928 d. October 14, 2012 Opera Singer. A soprano, she is remembered for her busy three years at the Metropolitan Opera. Raised in Detroit, she studied voice there and in Rome then received weekly lessons in Baltimore from the legendary Rosa Ponselle. Maria won the 1951 Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air and sang the first of her 128 performances with the company on November 20, 1953, as a Peasant Girl in Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro". Over the next years she was heard as several of Verdi's second ladies...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford) Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery, San Rafael, Marin County, California, USA
Mails, John "Duster" b. October 1, 1894 d. July 5, 1974 Major League Baseball Player. The left-hander pitched briefly for Brooklyn in 1915-16. Then he came back to the big leagues in 1920 and helped the Cleveland Indians win the American League pennant by going 7-0 with a 1.85 earned run average in nine games. He completed six of eight starts as Cleveland beat the scandal-ridden Chicago White Sox by two games and New York by three. With Cleveland ahead three games to two against Brooklyn in the best-of-nine World Series, Indians manager Tris Speaker...[Read More] (Bio by: Ron Coons) Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery, San Rafael, Marin County, California, USA
Spinelli, Juanita b. October 17, 1889 d. November 21, 1941 First woman to die in the gas chamber at San Quentin Federal Prison. She was convicted of First Degree Murder (premeditated). Nicknamed “the Duchess” by her fellow gang members for her haughty demeanor, she and her common-law husband, Michael Simeone, along with two others, drugged and murdered another member of their gang, 19-year-old Robert Sherrard. Born October 17, 1889, as Eithel Leta Juanita Spinelli, in Kentucky. It would be brought out at her trial that she had once been a wrestler and...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson) Cause of death: Execution by lethal gas Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery, San Rafael, Marin County, California, USA Plot: Section G, Row 30, Lot 18 (no grave marker)
b. June 26, 1923 d. June 3, 1955