RESEARCH TOPIC

"BURIED IN YOUR BACKYARD"

(Grave Locations of the Big Band Stars)

compiled by Christopher Popa

EXCERPTS ONLY

Armstrong, Louis

Flushing Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York

Arnaz, Desi

cremated, ashes scattered

Auld, Georgie

unknown

Ayres, Mitchell

Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles County, California

Garden of Remembrance, #1448

Barnet, Charlie

unknown

Basie, Count

Pinelawn Memorial Park, Pinelawn, Suffolk County, New York

Mausoleum, South Forsythia Court, Row 57, Tier D

GPS (lat/lon): 40.74618, -73.40305

Beneke, Tex

Greenwood Memorial Park, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas

Berigan, Bunny

Saint Mary's Cemetery, Fox Lake, Wisconsin

Bernie, Ben

Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York

Bradley, Will

unknown

Brooks, Randy

unknown

Brown, Les

Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California

Garden of Serenity, wall niche

GPS (lat/lon): 34.05822, -118.44058

Burke, Sonny

unknown

Busse, Henry

unknown

Hackett, Bobby

Seaside Cemetery, Chatham, Massachusetts

Monroe, Vaughn

Fern Hill Cemetery, Stuart, Florida

Shaw, Artie

Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park, Westlake Village, California

Spivak, Charlie

Greenville Memorial Gardens, Greenville, South Carolina

Garden of the Cross, lot 109

sources:

Chicago Federation of Musicians Local 10-208 Death Files.

DuPuis, Robert.  Bunny Berigan: Elusive Legend of Jazz (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University

  Press, 1993).

"Find a Grave," findagrave.com.

Lawless, Debra.  "Haunting Chatham's Many Cemeteries," Cape Cod [ MA ] Chronicle /

  capecodchronicle.com, Oct. 25, 2007.

Stanton, Scott.  The Tombstone Tourist (2003).

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