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Inglewood Park Cemetery - Definition and Overview |
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Inglewood Park Cemetery is located at 720 E. Florence Avenue in Inglewood, California. A number of both entertainment and sports personalities are interred here including:
- Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter/vocalist
- Ricky Bell, football player
- Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist
- Wally Berger, baseball player
- Richard Berry, singer, songwriter
- Lyman Bostock, baseball player, died from an accidental gunshot wound
- Tom Bradley, Los Angeles mayor
- Ray Charles, singer
- Pee Wee Crayton, guitarist, blues singer
- Sam Crawford, baseball Hall of Famer
- Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer
- Curt Flood, baseball player
- Hoot Gibson, actor
- Jim Gilliam, baseball player
- Betty Grable, actress, World War II pin-up girl
- Flo Hyman, volleyball player
- James J. Jeffries, world heavyweight boxing champion
- Gypsy Rose Lee, actress, burlesque dancer
- Louis Meyer, race car driver
- Sugar Ray Robinson, World Champion boxer
- Cesar Romero, actor
- Big Mama Thornton (Willie Mae Thornton), singer/songwriter
- T-Bone Walker, blues musician
- Bobby Wallace, baseball Hall of Famer
See also: List of United States cemeteries; List of famous cemeteries (non-US)
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