Authors: Allan Abbott,Greg Abbott
Pardon My Hearse: A Colorful Portrait of Where the Funeral and Entertainment Industries Met in Hollywood (45 page)
Ritter, John,
215
Robbins, Tim,
212
Rodman, Jack,
197
Rolling Stones,
52
Ross, Diana,
120
–121
Royal Dutch Airlines,
136
Russian Orthodox funerals,
178
Russian Civil War,
61
–64
Sacken, Louis,
5
Saint Charles Catholic Church,
200
Saint Sophia Cathedral,
183
San Fernando Mission Cemetery,
94
–95
San Quentin State Prison,
55
Scacchi, Greta,
212
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
,
152
Schwartzberg, Phil,
22
Sconce, David,
199
–203
Seagal, Steven,
211
Secret Service,
52
Selznick, David O.,
93
–94
Shaw, George Bernard,
28
Shelby, Carroll,
137
Shepherd, Cybill,
208
Silverman, Morton,
50
Simon, Carly,
119
–120
Sinatra, Frank,
91
–92
Smith and Salsbury,
27
Snyder, Allan “Whitey”,
77
,
80
,
247
Soldiers’ National Cemetery,
138
Stacy, James,
94
State Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers,
201
Stevens, Connie,
94
Stevens, Inger,
66
–70
Strasberg, Lee,
78
State Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers,
124
Steen, Mike,
264
Streep, Meryl,
217
suicides,
35
,
53
–57,
69
,
72
–81,
179
,
182
Summers, Anthony,
241
Superior Coach Company,
44
(the) Supremes,
120
Sylmar earthquake,
134
–135
Takeo, Miki,
52
Tales from the Crypt
,
216
–217
Tanner Gray Lines,
65
Tayback, Vic,
216
Taylor, Elizabeth,
88
–90
Ted Evans Motorcycles,
18
Things Are Tough All Over
,
155
–156
Thomas, Danny,
86
Thompson, Guy,
144
Thompson’s Harveson & Cole,
144
Trintignant, Jean-Louis,
146
–147
Triola, Michelle,
18
TV-Movie
,
241
–242
20
th
Century Fox Studios,
74
United States Air Force,
59
U.S. Postal Service,
190
–191
U.S. Treasury,
142
–143
University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Facility,
143
USC County General Hospital,
175
Utter-McKinley Mortuary,
16
,
24
–25,
28
–29,
42
,
49
,
129
–130,
204
,
233
Valhalla Cemetery,
150
Vaughn, Robert,
93
Veger, Peter,
37
Ventura County Coroner’s Office,
200
,
203
Verdugo Hills Cemetery,
159
–161
veterans funerals,
138
–140
Veterans Administration cemetery, Westwood,
128
–129,
139
,
151
,
211
(Queen) Victoria),
27
Victorian-era funeral practices,
27
–28
Vitale, Carol,
264
–265
von Hoffman, August Wilhelm,
174
Walken, Christopher,
167
–168
Wallace, Mike,
219
Warden, Jack,
150
Warner, Jack,
23
Warner Brothers,
23
Washington, George,
189
Waters, Tim,
190
,
195
,
199
–200,
203
Watts Riots,
102
–103
Webb, Jack,
95
West Los Angeles Police Station,
72
Western Trucking Company,
136
Westminster Memorial Park,
137
Westwood Village Memorial Cemetery,
73
–74,
77
,
81
,
166
,
199
,
236
,
239
,
241
,
243
White, “Shorty, ”
186
White Russian Army,
61
Whittier Narrows earthquake,
198
Wiener, David,
245
Wiener, Joyce,
244
–245
Wiener, Leigh,
243
–244
Wilding, Michael,
88
Wilshire Temple,
180
Wired
,
119
Wiseman, Joseph,
209
Wood, Lana,
166
–167
Woodward, Edward,
210
World Church Organization,
63
World Health Organization,
116
(The) World, the Flesh and the Devil
,
68
World War I,
2
World War II,
1
,
61
–62,
67
,
157
,
206
–207
Wright, Frank Lloyd,
50
Yamamoto, Isoroku,
1
Yom Kippur War,
132
Yorty, Sam,
94
Young, Robert,
52
Yucca Motel,
54
Zarekno, Kathy. See Abbott, Kathy
Zarekno, Paul,
59
,
61
–64,
170
,
204
–207
Zarekno, Tatiana,
62
–63
Zarekno, Vera,
61
–64,
107
–108,
170
,
206
–207
Ziegler Transfer Case,
250
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