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Butler, William Boynton b. November 20, 1894 d. March 25, 1972
World War I Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in he served as a Private in the 17th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, British Army. At Lempire, France, August 6, 1917, while in the trenches which were being heavily shelled, Private Butler picked up a un-exploded shell and jumped to the entrance of the emplacement. At that moment a party of infantry were passing, he shouted to them to hurry past and turning round, placed himself between the party of men and the live shell till they were out of...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Woodhouse Hill Cemetery, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Plot: New Section 3, Plot 48.
Allison, Fran b. November 20, 1907 d. July 13, 1989
Actress. Born in La Porte City, Iowa, she began working as a songstress on Iowa radio programs and eventually moved to Chicago in 1937, where she was hired as a staff singer and personality on NBC Radio. From 1937 to 1939, she was a regular on "Don McNeill's Breakfast Club" radio show as Aunt Franny. In the early 1940s, she joined puppeteer Burr Tillstrom, formed a program and became known as "Fran" of the "Kukla, Fran, and Ollie" puppet show on television 1948 to 1950s. Known as the "First...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Mount Calvary Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, USA
Plot: Old Section 2, near entrance
Dickson, Sir. Collingwood b. November 20, 1817 d. November 28, 1904
British Victoria Cross War Medal Recipient. Served as a General in the Royal Regiment of Artillery. He was awarded his medal for service in Crimea on October 17, 1854. (Bio by: K)
Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, Greater London, England
Frazer, Dan b. November 20, 1921 d. December 16, 2011
Actor. Best remembered for playing Captain Frank McNeil in the TV detective series "Kojak" (1973 to 1978). The idea of acting appealed to him during his youth and at the age of fourteen, he made his introduction to audiences in a production with the WPA's Federal Theatre Project. While serving with the Special Services in the US Army during World War II, Frazer was able to continue attaining experience in theatre and following his return home, he initiated his association with Broadway in "...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
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Canova, Judy (Julietta) b. November 20, 1913 d. August 5, 1983
Actress, Singer. For three decades she was a unique persona in the movies and music, a musical comedienne, a yodeling country bumpkin with costumes to match. However, unknown to many she was a recording artist who made hundreds of recordings from the early '30's and continued into the end of the '50's. She was born Julietta Canova in Starke, Florida to a cotton broker father and a concert-singer mother. When only twelve, Julietta, her sister Annie and older brother Leon (Zeke) were...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Garden of Memory, Columbarium of Everlasting Light
Larsen, William b. November 20, 1927 d. January 21, 1996
Actor. He appeared in the films "JFK" (1991), "Full Moon In Blue Water" (1988), "Five Days From Here" (1979), "Being There" (1979), "Heaven Can Wait" (1978), "Go West, Young Girl" (1978), "The Incredible Hulk" (1977), and "Delta County, U.S.A. (1977). He also appeared in the television show "Remington Steele" (1982-1987).
Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend
Christy, June b. November 20, 1925 d. June 21, 1990
Singer. Born Shirley Luster in Springfield, Illinois, she began her career singing in the Bill Oetzel Orchestra at 13. During the 1940s big band era, she was in Stan Kenton's Orchestra and song "Tampico", Kenton's biggest-selling record. In 1954, she released her own albums "Something Cool" and "The Misty Miss Christy" which included her husband, multi-instrumentalist Bob Cooper. She also appeared on a number of television programs, including "Adventures in Jazz", "The Steve Allen Show", "The...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cremated, Ashes scattered at sea, Ashes scattered in the harbor area off Marina Del Rey
Garrison, Jim b. November 20, 1921 d. October 21, 1992
JFK Assassination Figure. He was the New Orleans District Attorney whose investigation into President John F. Kennedy's assassination led to the trial of businessman Clay Shaw, who was the only person ever brough to trial in connection with the assassination. Shaw was later aquitted. Much of motion picture director Oliver Stone's movie "JFK" was based on his book, "On The Trail of the Assassins." Jim Garrison had a cameo in the film as Chief Justice Earl Warren of the Warren Commission. (Bio by: Joel Manuel)
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Chibitty, Charles b. November 20, 1921 d. July 20, 2005
United States Army Soldier. A World War II Code Talker, he was the last survivor of the Comanche code talkers who used their native language to transmit messages for the Allies in Europe during World War II. Like the larger group of Navajo Indians who performed a similar service in the Pacific theater, the Comanches were dubbed "code talkers." The group of Comanche Indians were selected for special duty in the U.S. Army to provide the Allies with a language that the Germans could not decipher...[Read More] (Bio by: Ron Moody)
Floral Haven Memorial Gardens, Broken Arrow, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, USA
Reeder, Charles A. b. November 20, 1843 d. September 28, 1902
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Corporal in the Union Army. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery while a Private in Company G, 12th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry for action at Battery Gregg, near Petersburg, Virgina on April 2, 1865. His citation reads simply "Capture of flag." He was one of five 12th West Virginia soldiers to be awarded the Medal of Honor for their bravery during the war (the others being [Read More] (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Shinnston Masonic Cemetery, Shinnston, Harrison County, West Virginia, USA
Croxton, John Thomas b. November 20, 1836 d. April 16, 1874
Civil War Union Brigadier General, U.S. Diplomat. Born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, he graduated with honors from Yale in 1857. He studied law under the direction of James Robinson, was admitted to the bar, and taught courses in Mississippi in 1858. He returned to Kentucky to practice as an attorney until the Civil War began. In October, 1861, he was commissioned by President Abraham Lincoln as a Lieutenant Colonel to help recruit and organize the 4th Kentucky Mounted Infantry. He was promoted...[Read More] (Bio by: Kevin Guy)
Paris Cemetery, Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, USA
Cranston, William Wallace b. November 20, 1838 d. December 7, 1907
Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Rank and Organization: Private, Company A, 66th Ohio Infantry Place and Date: At Chancellorsville, Va., 2 May 1863. Birth: Champaign County, Ohio. Date of Issue: 15 December 1892. Citation:One of a party of 4 who voluntarily brought in a wounded Confederate officer from within the enemy's line in the face of a constant fire.
Oakwood Cemetery, Parsons, Labette County, Kansas, USA
Ensley, Harold Edward b. November 20, 1912 d. August 24, 2005
Television Personality. He grew up on a cattle ranch near the town of Healy, Kansas. At the age of eighteen, he was Kansas' top history student and Val Victorian of his one-room school class, despite his habit of playing hooky to go fishing. He taught himself to fish using a safety pin for a hook and a willow stick for a pole. Later in life, he was a Church of Christ preacher in Joplin, Missouri, and had his own religious radio show. While selling radio ads, a friend said that he would buy ads...[Read More] (Bio by: Allen Bailey: Dodge City Marshal)
Longview Memorial Gardens, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA
Kirk, John b. November 20, 1846 d. March 2, 1920
Indian Wars Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served in the United States Army during the Wars with the Plains Indians as 1st Sergeant of Company L, 6th United States Cavalry. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery in action on July 12, 1870 at the Battle of the Little Wichita River, Texas, with his citation for the award reading simply "Gallantry in action." In the action he was part of a force of 57 men from the 6th Cavalry that went in pursuit of 250-strong group of Kiowa...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fairview Township, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Section A, Lot 74
Lagerl�f, Selma Ottilia Lovisa b. November 20, 1858 d. March 16, 1940
Author. She made her debut in 1891 with The G�sta Berling saga, a story about her own region, V�rmland and her home M�rbacka. With her novel she starts the wave of symbolic litterature in Sweden of the 1890s. Her novels Jerusalem (1901 to 1902) are about religious emigrants from Sweden to Palestine. She is the author of Sweden's most read novel, "The Adventures of Nils Holgerssons" (1906), a story about a boy travelling across Sweden on the back of a goose. Her stories often evolve around...[Read More] (Bio by: Rudi Polt)
�stra Amtervik kyrkog�rd, �stra Amtervik, Varmlands Lan, Sweden
Zdravkovic, Toma b. November 20, 1938 d. September 30, 1991
Folk Singer, Poet. His songs, although having the form of Serbian folk music, had the spirit of chansons. He had a characteristic vocal, not overly powerful but warm, resembling that of Charles Aznavour. The violin underlined the melancholic atmosphere in most songs. Most of the lyrics were written by himself, devoted to unfortunate love, and love-suffering while drinking and singing in bars. He married four times. Some of his most renowned songs are "Prokleta je ova nedelja" ("Damn this Sunday"...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Centralno Groblje, Belgrade, City of Belgrade (Grad Beograd), Serbia
Campbell, Jacob Miller b. November 20, 1821 d. September 27, 1888
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, US Congressman. He led an varied and adventurous life before the Civil War, having been a journalist in New Orleans, Louisiana and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a steamboat operation along the Mississippi River, a gold miner in California, and as a principle founder of the Cambria Iron Works in Central Pennsylvania. At the onset of the Civil War, he enlisted in the 3rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, a three-month enlistment regiment, serving as a 1st...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Central Section #4, Lot 175
Cover, Franklin Edward b. November 20, 1928 d. February 5, 2006
Actor. Best known for his role as 'Tom Willis', who was in an interracial marriage with a black woman, played by Roxie Roker, in the television series "The Jeffersons." Franklin Cover started his career on the stage, before he made his move to film and television. In 1975 he got the role in "The Jeffersons," opposite Sherman Hemsley and Isabel...[Read More] (Bio by: The Perplexed Historian)
Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend
Clouzot, Henri-Georges b. November 20, 1907 d. January 12, 1977
Motion-Picture Director. He was called "The French Hitchcock" for his thrillers, which are relentless in their suspense and bleak view of the world and of human relationships. His biggest hits were "The Wages of Fear" (1953), winner of the Golden Palm at Cannes, about a group of truck drivers perilously transporting a load of nitroglycerine through the South American jungle; and "Les Diaboliques" (1955), in which a brutal schoolmaster is apparently murdered by his long-suffering wife and...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Cimetiere de Montmartre, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Plot: Division 30
Byrd, Robert Carlyle b. November 20, 1917 d. June 28, 2010
US Senator. He was born Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr. and after his mother died in the 1918 influenza epidemic he was raised by his aunt and uncle, who renamed him. In 1946 he won a seat in the West Virginia House of Delegates, serving until 1950, when he was elected to the State Senate, where he served until 1952. That year he was the successful Democratic nominee for a seat in the US House of Representatives and served three terms. Byrd was elected to the US Senate in 1958 and served from 1959...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA

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