AGING PEACEFULLY, FOREST LAWN FETES CENTENNIAL.Byline: Jason Kandel Staff Writer GLENDALE - Forest Lawn Forest Lawn is the name of a number of different places:
Today, people stroll through the ``great park, towering trees, sweeping lawns, splashing fountains, singing birds, beautiful statuary'' envisioned nearly a century ago by Forest Lawn founder Hubert Eaton. ``It's the place you come to remember,'' said John Warren John Warren may refer to:
loved ones npl → proches mpl et amis chers loved ones love npl . You're remembering the life of the person you loved.'' Forest Lawn holds a yearlong celebration with exhibitions, retrospectives and events to mark 100 years. The ``100 Years of Art and Design: Art and Architecture of Forest Lawn'' exhibit opened Jan. 28 at the Forest (Naut.) at the fore royal masthead; - said of a flag, so raised as a signal for sailing, etc. See also: Fore Lawn Museum in Glendale, the oldest of the chain's cemeteries, and runs through July 16. ``For a cemetery group to last this long is quite an achievement,'' said Kevin Flanagan Kevin Flanagan was a computer programmer who worked for The Bank of America in Concord, California, USA. Flanagan committed suicide in the parking lot of Bank of America's Concord Technology Center after he and colleagues were laid off in April 2003. , a spokesman for the state Consumer Affairs Department, which regulates private cemeteries. ``To last this long and still remain so well-maintained is quite an achievement and a credit to the company.'' Paula Miller recalls frolicking at Forest Lawn on Sundays as a kid. ``I thought it was a park,'' said Miller, 55, of La Caada Flintridge, who brought flowers this week to the grave of her father, Paul Emmanuel Kenagy, who died a year ago at 80. His gravemarker is etched etch v. etched, etch·ing, etch·es v.tr. 1. a. To cut into the surface of (glass, for example) by the action of acid. b. with golf clubs and a ball, a tribute to his favorite pastime. ``It's a really nice feeling once you get in here actually. It's not a depressing place.'' Kenagy's wife and Miller's mother, Helen, 79, has visited her husband's grave, which sits under an oak tree, four times over the last year. ``I think it's beautiful,'' she said. ``When you come, you don't feel like it's a depressing place because it's so pretty and it's very peaceful. He is probably up there wishing he had a tee time.'' Unlike European cemeteries, where over time bodies are disinterred and cremated to save space, Forest Lawn and other American cemeteries have to plan ahead to make sure they have enough land to accommodate the dead. Forest Lawn has enough space at its Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, venues to accept new burials for 70 years, Warren said. At some point, though, the company will have to make a change. ``It's no science,'' Warren said. ``There is only a finite amount of property available. ... You could go vertical with wall crypts and a mausoleum mausoleum (môsəlē`əm), a sepulchral structure or tomb, especially one of some size and architectural pretension, so called from the sepulcher of that name at Halicarnassus, Asia Minor, erected (c.352 B.C. . Another option is find more land and buy more property.'' Finding affordable real estate in the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. area could be a challenge, and nobody wants to live next to a cemetery, so ``nimbyism'' could become an issue, as well. ``Ultimately, we will run out of space for cemeteries,'' Warren said. ``But that's a long way out.'' In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , people can still come to a beautiful place to remember their loved ones. ``It is much more than a cemetery,'' Warren said. ``It's a serene place. It's a place to just relax. It's an oasis in the city. When you're in the park, you really forget that you're in the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles.'' Jason Kandel, (818) 546-3306 jason.kandel(at)dailynews.com IF YOU GO A centennial open house will be held, 1 to 3 p.m. today, at Forest Lawn- Hollywood Hills The Hollywood Hills, an unofficial designation of part of the City of Los Angeles, California, are part of the eastern section of the low transverse range of the Santa Monica Mountains, which extends from the Los Feliz District and Hollywood, on the south side of the Valley, to , 6300 Forest Lawn Drive. Other centennial events will be held throughout the year. For information, call (800) 204-3131 or see www.ForestLawn.com. CAPTION(S): 2 photos, box Photo: (1) The 100-year-old Forest Lawn Memorial Park was designed to be a ``great park'' with ``sweeping lawns, splashing fountains (and) singing birds.'' (2 -- color) Forest Lawn Memorial Park is celebrating its centennial with an art and architecture exhibit, which includes the cemetery's key 195- foot-long painting ``The Crucifixion.'' David Sprague/Staff Photographer Box: IF YOU GO (see text) |
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