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Comment: Fails WP:NBUSINESS - requires significant coverage (not mentions in passing in the local newspaper) in multiple independent secondary sources. The funeral home website is a primary source. Dan arndt (talk) 02:34, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

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Cherokee Memorial Park in Lodi, California

Lodi News Sentinel Newspaper Notice, September 1953

Cherokee Memorial Park and Funeral Home is a cemetery, crematory, and funeral home in Lodi, California.^[1] Cherokee Memorial Park was founded as the second cemetery in Lodi in 1940. Cherokee Memorial Funeral Home was founded in 1998.^[1]

History

On May 20, 1940, a local group of businessmen formed the Cherokee Memorial Cemetery Group.^[2] The group met opposition at a May 23, 1940 meeting regarding traffic hazard concerns, yet still continued incorporation.^[3]

Beginning July of 1953, Live Oak Cemetery^{[unreliable source?]} in Lodi moved all interments to Cherokee Memorial Park.^[4]

The Vietnam Memorial "Moving Wall" visited the cemetery in 1986, drawing hundreds of visitors to Lodi, California.

In 2016, Cherokee Memorial Park and Funeral Home drew criticism for hosting a movie night event, with a showing of "Wizard of Oz" on an undeveloped lawn on the cemetery grounds.^[5]

Cherokee Memorial Park has 66 acres of burial plots and cremation spaces currently developed.

Notable Interments

Richard J. Pittman - Medal of Honor recipient, May 26, 1945 - October 13, 2016^[6]
Mitchell Brothers - American Adult Entertainment Entrepreneurs
Bert Harwood "Bert" Rumsey III - "Gunsmoke" actor
Jack Watt - professionally known as Brad King,"Hopalong Cassidy" actor
Mike Sadek - MLB athlete
Alex Spanos - Real Estate Developer/Owner, San Diego Chargers^[7]
Otto Krueger American politician^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b "History". Cherokee Memorial Park & Funeral Home. Retrieved 2023-09-08.^{[non-primary source needed]}
^ "Lodi News-Sentinel - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
^ "Lodi News-Sentinel - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
^ "Notice of Declaration of Intention to Remove Human Remains". Lodi News Sentinel. September 3, 1952. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
^ "Lodi Cemetery Movie Night Draws Criticism For Being 'Disrespectful' To Dead - CBS Sacramento". www.cbsnews.com. July 8, 2016.
^ https://www.marines.mil/News/Marines-TV/videoid/489080/
^ "Family Announces Services for Alex Spanos". Retrieved 12 March 2025.
^ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005. Government Printing Office. 2005. ISBN 978-0-16-073176-1.

External link

[cherokeememorial-1] "History". Cherokee Memorial Park & Funeral Home. Retrieved 2023-09-08.^{[non-primary source needed]}

[2] "Lodi News-Sentinel - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2023-09-08.

[3] "Lodi News-Sentinel - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2023-09-08.

[4] "Notice of Declaration of Intention to Remove Human Remains". Lodi News Sentinel. September 3, 1952. Retrieved 13 March 2025.

[5] "Lodi Cemetery Movie Night Draws Criticism For Being 'Disrespectful' To Dead - CBS Sacramento". www.cbsnews.com. July 8, 2016.

[6] ttps://www.marines.mil/News/Marines-TV/videoid/489080/

[7] "Family Announces Services for Alex Spanos". Retrieved 12 March 2025.

[8] Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005. Government Printing Office. 2005. ISBN 978-0-16-073176-1.

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