Inglewood Park Cemetery history

The first interment was made in the new cemetery on July 20, 1906.

Also in 1907 the management placed an order "with the factory in the East" for a $12,000 funeral car to be used "on the electric line" that ran on a right-of-way off Redondo Boulevard (today's Florence Avenue) in front of the cemetery.

Another was the September 12, 1908, funeral of Los Angeles city Police Chief Walter H. Auble, who was shot and killed in the line of duty.

Inglewood Park Cemetery became the first cemetery in California to build a community mausoleum when it constructed the Inglewood Mausoleum in 1913.

In 1933, Maytor H. McKinley sold his business interest in Wisconsin and Minnesota and moved to Los Angeles.

In 1934 he became an employee of the L.F. Utter Company, which he eventually purchased and changed the name to Utter-McKinley Mortuaries.

In 1962, Inglewood Cemetery Mortuary was built near the corner Prairie Avenue and Manchester Boulevard, across from the Great Western Forum.

8, 1972, the cemetery made news when AFL Service Employees International Union Local 399 called a strike of gravediggers and maintenance personnel.

Cemetery officials insisted that bodies had not been piling up and were being taken care of during the walkout, which cooled off when most of the 45 striking gravediggers returned to work in January 1973.

In 1995, Inglewood Park Cemetery began recycling its green waste.