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

Rosedale Cemetery,
192
,
210

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

Scott, Doug,
150
,
159

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

Simpson, Art,
31
–32,
41

Sinatra, Frank,
91
–92

60 Minutes
,
219
,
237
–238

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

Tribute
,
221
–224,
250

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

UCLA,
35
–36,
51
–52

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

Wagner, Robert,
167
,
221
,
226

Walken, Christopher,
167
–168

Walker, Bob,
16
,
18

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

Willis, Bruce,
208
,
217

Wilshire Temple,
180

Wired
,
119

Wiseman, Joseph,
209

Wood, Lana,
166
–167

Wood, Natalie,
166
–168,
221
,
226

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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by Grace Lee Whitney

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, and flirted with Jack Lemmon in
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. The life of Grace Lee Whitney is a behind-the-scenes story of Hollywood, an untold story of the
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