Cemetery in San Mateo County
Skylawn Memorial Park is a 505-acre (204 ha)
cemetery,
mausoleum,
crematorium,
columbarium and
funeral home complex in
San Mateo, California, directly accessible from
State Route 92. Interment records are at 1,308.
[1] The park's owners,
NorthStar Memorial Group, also operate the
Chapel of the Chimes columbarium in
Oakland, the
Chapel of the Chimes memorial park in
Hayward, and
Sunset Lawn Chapel of the Chimes in
Sacramento.
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Notable burials
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Tuineau Alipate (1967–2021), Professional football player
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Wilbur Bestwick (1911–1972), the first
Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps
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Bobby Lee Bonds (1946–2003),
[4]
Major League Baseball
right fielder, father of
Barry Bonds
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Jim Davenport (1933–2016), Major League Baseball
third baseman for the
San Francisco Giants
[5]
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Samson De Brier (1909–1995), actor and author
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Chub Feeney (1921–1994), baseball executive; president of the
National League
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Robert Mellard (1919–1976),
United States Army sergeant who fought in
World War II and the
Korean War
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Glenn Morris (1912–1974), winner of the
gold medal in the Olympic
decathlon in
1936
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Edwin Arnold Panagabko (1934–1979), professional ice hockey player with the
National Hockey League
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Glen Hearst Taylor (1904–1984), US Senator from
Idaho, the
vice presidential candidate on the
Progressive Party ticket in the
1948 election
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Willard Lewis Waterman (1914–1995), character actor, played
The Great Gildersleeve
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Bill Werle (1920–2010), Major League Baseball pitcher from Oakland
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