Hi,
Do you know where Mr Tetley is buried?
I can’t find him at “FindAGrave.com,” although Jay Ward is there as well as Phil Harris and Alice Faye.
Believe it or not, I actually send flowers to celebrity gravesites on their birthdays and some other dates when I’m moved to do so and my funds allow. They may be gone, but I still enjoy their work and I still love ’em.
Tetley was fabulous, so much great work he contributed. I still laugh til I cry with his “Julius” on the Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show.
I’ll appreciate whatever help you can give me on this.
Thanks.
Todd
Todd:
It may be purely a shot in the dark, but I will forward your email to a guy who has a copy of Walter Tetley’s death certificate. I have no idea, where to find Tetley’s grave site, but I am thinking that perhaps this man might know. Call it just a hunch; I figured if he was curious about that one item, then maybe he might have taken his interest, one step further, and found his grave (and even visited it).
Brian
August 18, 2001
Sorry, Don; I just noticed on the certificate for Walter Tetley, that it does give the location of his final resting place. I saw, when I looked at it, that his remains are at a crematory of the Oakwood Memorial Park. I am assuming that this is also a cemetery, too, and not just a crematory, with the word “park” in it. I don’t know where that is, but I assume that you do, and you have already told Todd. Is it in the city of Oakwood, CA?
Brian
Brian,
Thanks so much!
The park is in Chatsworth, CA in the San Fernando Valley. Fred and Ginger are there, as is Stephen Boyd. The next time I go to the south of the state, I’ll pop over there to pay my respects.
Findagrave.com does display urn photos as well as graves and crypts. Check out Phil Harris’ and Alice Faye for examples. They are also installing a program for “virtual flowers” in the celebrity section.
It will be awhile before I can get down there. If nobody else has submitted his bio and photos to Findagrave by then, I’ll do it.
Thanks again!
Todd