FAIRHAVEN MEMORIAL PARK
SANTA
ANA, CALIFORNIA
714-633-1442
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PAMELA SUE COURSON MORRISON
(COMMON LAW WIFE OF JIM MORRISON)
“The Doors”
Born: December 22, 1946
Weed, California
Died: April 25, 1974
Cause: Overdose
Location:
Rose Alcove 614-1
Pamela was allegedly Jim Morison’s common law wife. She died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27, the same age that Jim Morrison was when he died. Pamela died less than 3 years after Jim’s death.
CLYDE BRUCKMAN
Born: September 20, 1894
San Bernardino, California
Died: January 4, 1955
Hollywood, California
Cause: Suicide by gunshot
Location: Lawn AG, Lot 1610,
and Space 1
Clyde A. Bruckman was both a writer and director of Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello and Buster Keaton. In January 1955 he was out of work and broke. He borrowed Buster Keaton’s gun and after eating a dinner he could not afford, he shot himself. Conflicting stories are that he shot himself in the bathroom of the restaurant or in the phone booth outside.
DOUGLAS “WRONG WAY” CORRIGAN
Born: January 22, 1907
Texas
Died: December 9, 1995
Orange, California
Cause: Natural
Location: Block M, Grave 31
Douglas Corrigan was an aviator. In 1938 he took off for a New York to California flight. The nose of his plane was pointing east and 48 hours later he landed in Dublin, Ireland. He was immediately dubbed “Wrong Way” thus the name Wrong Way Corrigan. An episode of “Gilligan’s Island” had a character that was scripted after Wrong Way.
GLENN LUTHER MARTIN
Born: January 17, 1886
Macksburg, Iowa
Died: December 4, 1955
Baltimore, Maryland
Location: East Corridor, Tier
C, Room 2, Main Mausoleum
Airplane inventor who built his first plane in 1909. Built planes for the war effort, named the Martin bomber in 1918, but the plane was too late for WWI. He eventually became an aircraft manufacturer.
LEO FENDER
(Born: Clarence Leonidas Fender)
Born: August 10, 1909
Anaheim, California
Died: March 21, 1991
Fullerton, California
Location: Section J
Founder and inventor of the Fender Guitar. Fender started tinkering with radios and opened the Fender Radio Service which led Leo into a life of guitars and amplifiers. Leo wanted to build the better guitar, he started with the Electro String, Vivi-Tone, and than the Fender Stratocaster other manufacturers left off. Leo Fender invented an improved electric guitar and capitalized on a turning point in music history, the decline of the Big Band Era at the beginning of the post-World War II economic expansion.
Leo suffered several small strokes and progressive degeneration from Parkinson's disease. Leo died doing what he loved. Working just the day before he died.
Note: This web-mistress attended the services for Leo Fender. But I could not get in the church. (dang guest list). So I waited in my car and yes it was raining that day. When they brought the casket out I followed the hearse and procession to the grave site. But I stayed back to give the family their privacy. I left during the service and went back and hour later and watched Mr. Fender being buried. You can believe I was there 2 months later to take the grave shot. He is also buried with his first wife. I always find that weird when they have two wives and they bury them with the first.
STANLEY HERBERT DUNN
Born: November 24, 1891
New York
Died: April 14, 1979
Costa Mesa, California
Location: Memorial Garden,
Lot 469, Space 2
Stanley Herbert Dunn was the first person to play the Cisco Kid in the 1923 silent movie The Caballero's Way.
PIERCE W. LYDEN
Born: January 8, 1908
Hildreth, Nebraska
Died: October 10, 1998
Orange, California
Cause: Cancer
Location: Lawn AY, Lot 6,
Space 1
Western country actor who did hundreds of films and televison. Pierce was also famous for riding horses bareback, his father was a horse buyer and couldn’t afford saddles.
W.T. BILL GRACE
Born: 1907
Died: 1989
Location: Lawn H, Lot 654-E
Bill “William” and Helen Grace started Helen Grace candy in San Pedro, California on January 10, 1944. Bill and Helen later moved the business to Lakewood, California for a bigger store.
WILLIAM BROOKS CHING
Born: October 2, 1913
St. Louis, Missouri
Died: July 1, 1989
Tustin, California
Cause: Heart Failure
Location: Garden court, Rose
Alcove, 18G-2
Actor of countless films and television. Played Clint Albright on
“Our Miss Brooks”.
MARYESTHER DENVER
Born: May 10, 1918
Iowa
Died: June 3, 1980
Hollywood, California
Location: Lawn AB, Lot 229,
Space 1
Screen and television actress. Played Grimalda in the Bewitched series. Also played Catspaw in a episode of Star Trek. This is not Bob Denver’s mother, she is survived by a daughter and a son.
MARGARET IRVING
Born: January 18, 1898
Pittsburgh, PA
Died: March 5, 1988
Location: Columbarium #3,
Niche 101
Actress who started in 1923 silent screen. Her last movie was
1955 “The People’s Choice”.
LINDA CORDOVA
Died: May 21, 1994
Location: Alcove of
Remembrance, N-8
Actress who stared in “Hombre”, “Long Rope” and “Virginia Sacrifice”.
