Los Gatos Memorial Park

Los Gatos Memorial Park
Details
Established	1889 (1889)
Location	San Jose, California
Country	United States
Coordinates	37°14′40″N121°56′29″W / 37.24444°N 121.94139°W / 37.24444; -121.94139

Los Gatos Memorial Park is the principle cemetery of Los Gatos, California, established in 1889. It occupies some thirty acres, with the main entrance at 2255 Los Gatos-Almaden Road, San Jose, California 95124. ^[1]

By the late 1880s, Los Gatos needed a cemetery, and the matter was considered by the Odd Fellows Lodge. As a result, on December 9, 1889, some members of the lodge formed the Los Gatos Cemetery Association, with J. H. Lyndon as president, and it went on to acquire land and establish a burial ground which was at first known as the Los Gatos Cemetery. ^[2]

In 1901, the cemetery was advertised as "2½ miles E on Almaden rd", with offices in Los Gatos at Main near Railroad Avenue. ^[3]

By 1997, the Los Gatos Cemetery had been renamed as a Memorial Park and had also been taken into its city limits by the San Jose City Council. ^[4]

Notable memorials

• John Beecher (1904–1980), poet and journalist
• James F. Boccardo (1911–2003), lawyer and philanthropist
• Sidney Dolores Bunce (1892–1965), British-born portrait artist
• Al Gould (1893–1982), Major League baseball player ^[5]
• Steve Harwell (1967–2023), lead singer of the band Smash Mouth ^[6]
• Bill Hewlett (1913–2001), co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard Company ^[7]
• Clark Hobart (1868–1948), painter ^[8]
• Alan Passaro, killer of Meredith Hunter Jr. (died 1985)
• Jason Jurman (1979–2014), actor ^[9]
• Alice MacGowan (1858–1947), writer ^[10]
• Fremont Older (1856–1935), newspaperman and editor ^[7]
• Lillian McNeill Palmer (1871–1961), Arts and Crafts metalsmith
• Nathan Rosenberg (1927–2015), economist ^[11]
• Emily Eolian Williams (1869–1942), architect ^[12]
• Katka Zupančič (1889–1967), Slovene-American author and teacher ^[13]
• Duong Trong Lam (died 1981), an assassinated Vietnamese journalist, was briefly buried at the cemetery in 1981, but his remains were removed by his father after anti-communist protests by the Vietnamese community. ^[14]
• Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017), mathematician

Notes

1. "History", losgatosmemorialpark.com, accessed 20 November 2024
2. George G. Bruntz, The History of Los Gatos: Gem of the Foothills (1971), p. 61: "December 9, 1889... Los Gatos Cemetery Association was incorporated with J. H. Lyndon, President, E. E. Dow, Vice - President..."
3. San Jose City Directory Including Santa Clara County (1901), p. 567: "... Los Gatos Cemetery, 21 miles e on Almaden rd LOS GATOS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION 567 EE Dow president"
4. Willys I. Peck, Saratoga Stereopticon: A Magic Lantern of Memory (1997), p. 14: "I recall covering the San Jose City Council meeting at which the Los Gatos Cemetery, now Memorial Park, was officially annexed , I presume as being uninhabited."
5. "Al Gould's Stats", retrosheet.org, accessed 2008-04-06
6. "SINGER STEVE HARWELL CREMATED... Memorial Open to Public", TMZ.com, February 10, 2023, accessed November 20, 2024
7. "Beyond the Grave: The ultimate guide for the famous graves throughout the Santa Clara Valley", Metroactive, accessed November 20, 2024
8. "S.F. Artist Dies", Santa Rosa Republican, February 24, 1948, p. 10
9. "Jason Jurman" (obituary), The Mercury News, October 15, 2014
10. "Alice MacGowan, 87, Is Called By Death", Los Gatos Times-Saratoga Observer, March 14, 1947, p. 1
11. Kylie Jue, "Stanford professor emeritus of public policy, Nathan Rosenberg, dies at 87", stanforddaily.com, 7 September 2015, accessed November 20, 2024
12. "Death Claims Emily Williams, Noted Architect", Los Gatos Times, June 5, 1942; "E. Williams Passes Away. Rites Friday", Los Gatos Mail News, June 4, 1942
13. "Katka Zupančič – Belokranjka v ameriškem velemestu", Radio Odeon, August 14, 2016
14. "Duong Trong Lam", Mother Jones , Feb/March 1983, p. 45

External links

• Los Gatos Memorial Park at Find a Grave