Hi friends, you may remember that back in August
I visited the gravesite of actress Heather angel up in Santa Barbara, California
She played the role of mrs. Haversham on the popular 1960s TV sitcom called
family affair
Well after I visited her gravesite some of you suggested that I visit the grave sites of the rest of the cast a family affair
So that's why I'm headed today. The two of them are buried right here at Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles and
while I'm here
I'm going to visit the grave sites of a few other people that you might be surprised are also buried here in the cemetery
And Here I am in Westwood Village Memorial Park as you can see the sign back there
You can see the big skyscrapers around
Look at this
This Memorial Park is
surrounded by
almost surrounded by
Skyscrapers and then on one side, I'll turn around so you can see some of the large buildings behind me
condos and in homes
All this back there so it's just a very very small cemetery
What you see there that's the cemetery
the green grass of the center is for ground burial traditional ground Barrow and in the rest, um
most of the rest is made up of
Crypts and niches
In case you missed my visit to Heather angels final resting place in Santa Barbara. I'll put a link down below this video
She died on December 13th
1986 at the age of 77 from cancer up in Santa Barbara, California on the show
She was a nanny and her character was named Miss. Haversham and she was the female friend of mr. French
Who was played by Sebastian Cabot. Mr. French was essentially the male nanny to the kids on family affair
The Sebastian Cabot died at the young age of 59 following a stroke he died
in, British, Columbia, Canada on August 22nd
1977
He appeared in more than 50 movies and TV shows but he'll probably always best be remembered as mr. French
The Sebastian Cabot was cremated and as you can see his ashes were buried in the ground
Just in front of the cemetery
offices
This is one of a couple of ground burial niche gardens here in cemetery
On the show Brian Keith played bachelor bill Davis or uncle bill
Sebastian Cabot played his valet. Mr
French and they lived in a luxury New York City apartment when Uncle Bill's brother and sister-in-law are tragically killed in an auto accident
Bill reluctantly agrees to take in and raise their three orphaned children sissy Buffy and Jody
the popular TV sitcom ran for five seasons
from 1966 to 1971
Sadly Keith shot and killed himself in Malibu, California on June 24th
1997 at the age of 75 just a couple of months after his daughter Daisy also committed suicide
He had also been battling emphysema and lung cancer
Keith and his daughter Daisy were both cremated and as you can see they are laid to rest here together in this niche wall
Just across the street in this Cemetery from Sebastian Cabot's final resting place
The older daughters Sissy was played by Kathy Garver who's still alive
And the younger twins Jody and Buffy work laid by Johnny Whitaker and Anissa Jones
Johnny Whitaker is still alive the sadly
Anissa Jones who played Buffy died at the young age of 18 from drug overdose on August 28
1976 in Oceanside, California
She was cremated and the whereabouts of her ashes are currently unknown
Actress Nancy Walker joined the show for the final season as Uncle Bill's housekeeper and she died of lung cancer in Studio City, California
On March 25th
1992 at the age of 69 and she was also cremated and her ashes were reportedly scattered at sea
And even though she appeared for one season on
Family affair. She'll probably always best be remembered for playing Rhoda's mom on the television sitcom, Rhoda
While family affair was a very popular show all in the family was not only popular but it's an American classic
And the star that show was actor Carroll O'Connor and he's buried in the cemetery as well
So in my tribute today two famous families, his gravesite is next On
June 21st 2001
Actor Carroll O'Connor died from a heart attack at the age of 76 in Culver City, California
O'Connor is best known for playing Archie Bunker one of the most iconic
and best-known characters in TV history on the CBS TV sitcom all in the family that aired from
1971 until
1979 in
1971 I was living with my
Grandmother, and I remember coming home one night to find her watching a brand-new TV show all in the family at first
I was completely turned off by Archie Bunker's bigoted character and couldn't believe that she would watch such a show
But by the second or third episode I was completely hooked
I was a long-haired hippie like Michael Stivic or meathead Rob Reiner's character and she was very dogmatic
and black-and-white about everything and
identified with Archie
So watching all in the family really was like holding up a mirror to our own
Relationship and family and in case you're having a hard time
Picturing me with long hair or any hair for that matter here are two pictures of me back in 1971
That's me on the left. And on the right and asked my friend Barbara in the middle with the short hair hard to believe right?
During my life. I've only been to three live TV show tapings and all in the family was one of them
I remember seeing it with my good friend Fritz
The show really broke new ground by tackling controversial topics, like racism and gay rights
Religion and abortion the Vietnam War in so many other topics that were never discussed especially on TV sitcoms
All of the family was a huge hit in a number one show
It's also considered by almost everyone to be one of the greatest u.s. TV sitcoms of all time
So if you haven't seen it, definitely check it out Hugh O'Connor was an actor best remembered for his role as officer
Lonnie Jameson on the popular drama in the heat of the night
Which aired from 1988 until?
1994 and he co-starred with his father Carroll O'Connor
Over the years I visited the gravesite of Carroll O'Connor many times
And I always thought that his son Hugh O'Connor was buried with him
But it turns out that this is just a Cenotaph or a memorial to his son whose ashes are interred in Rome, Italy
sadly on March 28
1995 Hugh shot and killed himself in Pacific Palisades, California at the young age of thirty two
Actors Jean Stapleton played Edith Bunker the ditzy, but very lovable wife of Archie Bunker
She died on May 31st
2013 at the age of 90 from natural causes
And was cremated she won three Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for her role as Edith bunker
also known affectionately as
dingbat
Sadly her ashes were either scattered or given to family and she has no current a final resting place to visit
Back in the center lawns section not far from Sebastian Cabot's final resting place is the gravesite of
Richard dawson the actor comedian and game show host got his big break in the 1960s from the popular sitcom
Hogan's Heroes
He played corporal Peter Newkirk and the show aired for six seasons from 1965 to 1971
But he's probably best remembered as the original host of the popular TV game show a family feud
the show premiered on ABC in
1976 and Dawson was the host for nearly two decades
Dawson died at the age of 79 from complications from esophageal cancer in Los Angeles
On June 2nd
2012 and
Just a few rows away from Dawson's gravesite is the final resting place of actor Bob Crane
Who is the star of Hogan's Heroes?
Crane died, June 29th
1978 at the age of 49 in Scottsdale, Arizona
After being bludgeoned to death his murder is still unsolved today
The next person I'm gonna visit here in the cemetery today
It's not someone you necessarily think of when you think of family or family TV shows
but he is interred here with his family and he was nominated for an Academy Award for writing the song music and lyrics for the
1969 movie a boy named Charlie Brown
Which is one of the most popular family movies of all time the Crypt of Rod McKuen
is
Very close to
Marilyn Monroe's crypt but I've never seen anyone do a video of his final resting place
I've seen hundreds of Marilyn's and here afters and I've done a few myself
But I didn't even realize like I've been wanting to come to visit him for a long time
And I searched and searched. I've been here for hours searching
primarily for him
And I could not find and his crypt and so I just happened after I found just about everybody else
I was looking forward today. I thought well, let me just take one last look and sure enough there
He was Rob McEwen is considered to be one of the best-selling poets in history
He was a poet singer songwriter and actor
He was nominated for Academy Awards for Grammy Awards for the Pulitzer Prize
his songs have sold over 1 million recordings worldwide and
60 million copies of his poetry books have been sold worldwide and
The darker crypts straight-ahead are those of Marilyn Monroe on the right and he left her on the left
He recorded more than 200 albums and many of them went gold or platinum
He died, January 29th
2015 at the age of 81 in Beverly Hills, California
from complications from pneumonia
His mother Claire Hooper McEwan died in 1971 at the age of 61
It is in the crypt directly above his
Now the plaque on the crypt directly to his right reads Edward McEwen Habib, so I assumed it was his
But in doing research, I haven't been able to find that he had a brother
I did find though that he lived in Beverly Hills with his partner Edward who he called brother?
So I'm assuming that even though I thought this was his brother. I'm assuming that it's his partner and as you can see
Edward just died this year
If anyone watching knows for sure, please let us know in the comment section down below
MacEwan was one of the earliest
LGBTQ rights activists in the country in one of his most quoted lines is
It doesn't matter who you love or how you love but that you love and I love that
He's buried here with his mother and either his brother or his life partner and then he made such a positive and lasting
Contribution to the world while he was here
And
That's the entrance gate straight ahead and to the right
and last but not least is the gravesite of one of my favorite authors and
futurists Alvin Toffler, who died June 27th
2016 at the age of 87 in Bel Air, California
He's buried with his daughter Karen who died at the young age of 47 after suffering for decades with a rare disease
In 1970 when I first read toffler's book future shock
It really blew me away and it pretty much blew the whole world away and became an international bestseller
in 1970 YouTube Facebook and social media
Didn't exist at all and was still decades away and yet Toffler was talking about the technology revolution
the communication revolution
and information overload in predicting where we are today the Toffler talked about the effects of
ethnic diversity and globalization and
Information overload on the family and mostly talked about the impact of change
On societies in the world and just in this visit to the cemetery today
It's pretty clear to see the families have changed dramatically over the years
Some would say the families have changed for the better some for the worst. What do you think?
It's not surprising that couples are often buried together or almost always buried together
But it's much less common for children to be buried near or with their parents. So
How about all of you when the time comes are you planning to be buried next to your brother or sisters?
Your mother's or Father's your grandparents or other family members. Please let us know down below
As always thanks for joining me today and thanks
Especially for all your great comments for all the thumbs up for sharing with your friends
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