Chapel of the Chimes Memorial Park and Funeral Home is a 61 acres (24.7 ha) cemetery

Cemetery

A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...

, mausoleum

Mausoleum

A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb or the tomb may be considered to be within the...

, crematorium, columbarium

Columbarium

A columbarium is a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns . The term comes from the Latin columba and originally referred to compartmentalized housing for doves and pigeons .The Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas is a particularly fine ancient Roman example, rich in...

 and funeral home

Funeral home

A funeral home, funeral parlor or mortuary, is a business that provides burial and funeral services for the deceased and their families. These services may include aprepared wake and funeral, and the provision of a chapel for the funeral....

 complex in Hayward, California

Hayward, California

Hayward is a city located in the East Bay in Alameda County, California. With a population of 144,186, Hayward is the sixth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area and the third largest in Alameda County. Hayward was ranked as the 37th most populous municipality in California. It is included in...

. The site was first established as a seven acre cemetery in 1872. Interment records are at 5,289.One of the memorial park's three mausoleums is circular in design, the only such one in California. The park hosts one of the larger Memorial Day

Memorial Day

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 services in the San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

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 A replica of the Angel of Grief

Angel of Grief

Angel of Grief is an 1894 sculpture by William Wetmore Story which serves as the grave stone of the artist and his wife at the Protestant Cemetery, Rome....

 statue is located there. The former Masonic Cemetery and Decoto Cemetery are now encompassed within its bounds. The park's owners, Lifemark Group, also operate the Chapel of the Chimes

Chapel of the Chimes (Oakland, California)

Chapel of the Chimes was founded in 1909 as a crematory and columbarium in Oakland, California. The present building dates largely from a 1928 redevelopment based on the designs of the architect Julia Morgan. The Moorish- and Gothic-inspired interior is a maze of small rooms featuring ornate...

 columbarium in Oakland, California

Oakland, California

Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...

, and Skylawn Memorial Park

Skylawn Memorial Park (San Mateo, California)

Skylawn Memorial Park is a cemetery, mausoleum, crematorium, columbarium and funeral home complex in San Mateo, California, directly accessible from State Route 92. Interment records are at 1,308...

 in San Mateo

San Mateo, California

San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a population of approximately 100,000 , it is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the east, Belmont to the south,...

People interred

• Spade Cooley
  Spade Cooley
  Donnell Clyde Cooley , better known as Spade Cooley, was an American Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality...
  
  , western swing
  Western swing
  Western swing music is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands...
  
   musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality
• Thomas Fitch
  Thomas Fitch (politician)
  Thomas Fitch was an American laywer and politician. He defended President Brigham Young of the Church of Latter-day Saints and other church leaders when Young and his denomination were prosecuted for polygamy in 1871 and 1872...
  
  , United States Representative from Nevada
  Nevada
  Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
  
  
• James Logan
  James Logan (trustee)
  James Logan was an education official in Fremont, California. The James Logan High School built in Union City in 1959 is named after him.-Biographical Information:...
  
  , local education official, namesake of James Logan High School
  James Logan High School
  James Logan High School is a public secondary school in Union City, California, United States. The school is administrated by the New Haven Unified School District and has an enrollment of more than 4000 students.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Daniel Sakai, slain Oakland Police officer
• James Cleveland Whipple
  James Logan (trustee)
  James Logan was an education official in Fremont, California. The James Logan High School built in Union City in 1959 is named after him.-Biographical Information:...
  
  , local education official, colleague of James Logan, namesake of Whipple Road in nearby Union City
  Union City, California
  Union City is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It was incorporated in 1959, combining the communities of Alvarado and Decoto. Alvarado was the original county seat of Alameda County, and the site of the first county courthouse is a California Historical Landmark . The city...
  
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