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A resting place like nature intended, in the heart of Los Angeles

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Our multicultural staff has the knowledge and understanding to serve your traditions with truth and authenticity.

All Faiths & Traditions

Spanning 60 acres of natural beauty, our grounds offer an oasis of gardens, trees and lakes with resident swans and peacocks.

Beautiful Idyllic Grounds

Elegant & Remarkable Resting Places

Cremation Niche - Mausoleum

From grand and majestic, to serene and intimate, we offer many varieties of mausoleums that house urns, niches and crypts. Options include:

Custom Statues & Monuments

Our in-house studio of stonemasons will work with you to create a one-of-a-kind memorial marker reflective of the life it is to honor.

  • Statuaries & monuments
  • Headstones
  • Structures in any variety of artistic style

Gardens & Living Tree Memorial

Cremation urns or remains (ashes) are reunited with the earth in elegant gardens and lawn plots. You may mark the location with a living tree, monument, custom marker or plaque.

Cremation Niche - Columbarium

We offer multiple stylish columbariums with glass-front, lit or closed niches. Some are secluded, ensconced in rich marble, others intermingled with trees and skylights. Options include:

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Cemetery, Funeral Home & Crematorium 

Founded in 1899, Hollywood Forever quickly became the cemetery of choice for Hollywood founders and stars. Over the years, we have specialized in all cemetery, funeral, burial and cremation services to offer you a single source of help in this trying time. Though we have grown steadily over the years, our core philosophy remains that of a small boutique team: tailoredindividualized care with a personal touch.

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  • Cremation niches
  • Our beautiful gardens
  • Living tree memorial
  • Custom statues & plaques

A resting place provides your loved one and your family a special site for remembrance and honor.

We have several comforting venues for ceremonies, both outside on the cemetery’s beautiful grounds and inside its historic buildings.

  • Funeral service
  • Memorial service
  • Cultural ceremonies
  • Private family, companion or community
  • Above ground or underground
  • Overlooking the cemetery lake
  • Along a reflecting pool or secluded garden
  • Rose garden
  • Scattering gardens
  • Private lawn plots
  • Living tree memorial
  • Indoor glass-fronted, closed or illuminated
  • Outdoor stone-fronted
  • Plaques and personal mementos
  • Your own urn or one from our collection

Age-Old Ceremonies or Create Your Own Path

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  • Indoors in historic buildings and chapels
  • Outdoors on our beautiful grounds
  • Clergy, officiant and/or family and friends
  • Caskets, flowers and decorations

This ceremony of honoring and celebrating the life lived pays tribute with a deceased person usually present in a casket (before cremation). Options include:

Funeral Service (with Decedent Present)

Memorial Service (without Decedent Present)

This ceremony of honoring and celebrating the life lived pays tribute with the deceased person's cremated remains present in an urn.  Options include:

  • Indoors in historic buildings and chapels
  • Outdoors on our beautiful grounds
  • Clergy, officiant and/or family and friends
  • Urns, flowers and decorations

Cultural & Creed-based Ceremonies

We are fluent in over 7 languages and able to accommodate all traditions. Our on-site crematorium is especially suitable for Buddhist, Hindu and Sikh traditions.

  • Traditional ceremonies & processions
  • Indoors in historic buildings or outdoors on our beautiful grounds
  • Witnessed cremation
  • Flowers and decorations

Special Memorial Markers & Plaques

Our in-house studio of stonemasons will work with you to create a personalized plaque, with inscriptions and adornments of your choosing, to memorialize your loved one.

  • Bronze and/or stone
  • Antique or modern
  • Personalized styles
  • Inscriptions
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Based on 3,372 reviews

Noelle Berman was a godsend - literally. She made a very bad situation into an experience that was not only tolerable, but made the passing a comfortable one paired with the exact kind of reverence that was necessary... delivered above and beyond.

— Tania

When my brother in law tragically passed away, our family received exceptional care during a very tender time in our life.  Noelle is a special person who is compassionate and caring, She made us feel at ease which is what you need at a time like that.

— T. Koster

— C. Esparza

Awesome, I love this place. My grandma is buried here and now my husband too. I spend every Sunday here and I love the peace and the land.

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— S. Akers

Our daughter is buried here. The beauty of the park and the wildlife bring us a great deal of comfort as we visit her each weekend.  The staff was wonderful as we made the arrangements and held the celebration of her life there.

The online service was done very well. They not only guided us through a tough time but they had patience in explaining the process with diligent explanations. On top of that sending and receiving documents was also easy.

— C. Ramirez

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Founded in 1899, Hollywood Forever quickly became the cemetery of choice for Hollywood founders and stars. Over the years, we have specialized in all funeral, burial and cremation services to offer you a single source of help in this trying time. Though we have grown steadily over the years, our core philosophy remains that of a small boutique team: tailoredindividualized care with a personal touch.

(323) 469-1181

Unlike other funeral homes, we do not impose fixed types of arrangements or cookie-cutter plans. Instead, you have the flexibility to customize all elements. From traditional ceremonies to cultural traditions, homages, personalized statues, niches and plaques—you and your loved ones deserve to do things your way.

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Select from Any of Our Beautiful Venues for Ceremonies

As a full-service funeral home and cemetery, we suggest you focus on selecting a location for a remembrance ceremony, while we take care of making arrangements, ensuring transportation and procuring of all necessary documents and permits.

The Main Chapel

The Hollywood Cathedral Mausoleum

The Masonic Lodge

Intimate Graveside Ceremonies

The Fairbanks Reflecting Pool

Heartfelt Nicheside Services

Beth Olam Jewish Cemetery

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Private Lawn Plots

Our luscious cemetery grounds provide many areas reserved for private lawn plots. They are tended yearlong with compassion and care by our experienced botanists.

  • Surrounded by elegant wildlife and fauna
  • Customized to suit your every wish
  • With tombstones, plaques or memorial markers

Mausoleum or Crypt Interment

Home to some of the nation’s most historic architectural gems, we offer both crypts and mausoleums to serve the generations of your family.

  • Crafted in the finest stonemasonry
  • Surrounded by reflection pools and fountains
  • Near trees and beautiful gardens 
  • With sarcophagi or bronze and stone statuary

You Deserve to Have it Done Your Way

You have come to Hollywood Forever to remember someone you have known and loved — or perhaps you have come to decide how you wish to be remembered. Though death is the cause of our meeting, let us endeavor to celebrate life. Our hope is to help you fill the emptiness of loss by assisting you in giving expression to the richness and particular beauty of a life that was like none other.

Unlike other funeral homes, we do not impose fixed types of arrangements or cookie-cutter plans. Instead, you have the flexibility to customize all elements. From traditional ceremonies to cultural traditions, homages, personalized statues, niches and plaques—you and your loved ones deserve to do things your way.

Sincerely,

Yogu Kanthiah
Co-Owner & CFO

Tyler Cassity
Co-Owner & President

We like to believe that the staff members of Hollywood Forever have uncommon hearts, unexpected creativity, quiet strength, and deep compassion. May you find these qualities here, and may they serve you well in this time of need.

Homer Alba
Senior Vice-President

Chanell O'Farrill
Funeral Director

Eddie Martinez
Service Coordinator

Nouneh Bouvier
Funeral Director

Aleksandr Berkovich
Clergyman, Cantor

Tina Dizon
Controller

Patsy Chaisomboon
Thai Funeral Specialist

Lubov Chiltsov
General Manager

Tree Burial and Natural Burial Options

Over its 121-year history, Hollywood Forever Cemetery has borne witness to great changes in the needs and sensibilities of the Los Angeles communities we have been privileged to serve. New generations of clients whose lives are guided by a heightened sense of environmental responsibility are eager for a form of memorialization that leaves as little impact on the planet as possible. Having explored many natural burial options, we are pleased to bring memorial tree burial to Hollywood Forever.  We are also proud to offer green burial as a certified Hybrid Cemetery by the highly respected Green Burial Council.

Hollywood Forever’s Vision for Environmentally Friendly Burial

As a historic, urban cemetery, we believe our mission at Hollywood Forever is constantly evolving to serve the needs of our clients and surrounding communities. Now, more than ever, we hear a wish that your final arrangements are kind to the earth — even, if possible, an act of giving back to the planet, rather than taking from it. In 2005, we asked a different question: What if your final resting place could preserve and conserve natural spaces?

Inspired by Fernwood Cemetery

After studying the growing popularity of the emerging natural woodland burial cemeteries in the United Kingdom, our team reimagined a historic Marin County cemetery into a pioneering example of eco-friendly green burial in the San Francisco Bay area. This green cemetery substitutes traditional burial methods with natural processes and biodegradable options, with a focus on land conservation and restoration.  

The resulting Fernwood Cemetery, offers our Northern California clients the choice of burial in natural pine boxes, shrouds, and even the occasional Coeio burial mushroom suit of Ted Talk fame. A visionary green cemetery, Fernwood has eschewed traditional burial in favor of eco-friendly burial, replacing a casket burial with an organic burial pod or biodegradable urn. Each natural burial in a restored meadow or woodland contributes to the ecological restoration of the landscape for long-term preservation. Many of these green burial spaces are then marked by memorial coast oaks, redwoods, or simply engraved natural boulders.

Though we maintain a manicured landscape at Hollywood Forever, we do allow green burial for those who wish to be buried without embalming and the use of concrete or fabricated burial vaults. According to this method, bodies are interred in either a natural wood casket without metal, or a cloth burial shroud, or the Infinity Burial Suit. In the absence of a burial vault, the remaining soil is mounded over the grave and levels slowly and naturally over time.

Green Burial at Hollywood Forever

Transfers to Fernwood for Natural Green Burial

Many times a year, we arrange for transfers from Southern California to our sister facility in Marin County. With increasing frequency, we help survivors whose loved ones specified their wish for green burial in a natural landscape. We will refer you to one of our co-workers in Northern California to assist in selecting a space in one of our beautiful oak forests or native grass and wildflower meadows.

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Hollywood Forever’s Ancestral Forest Project and Tree Burial

Unlike the meadows and forests of Fernwood, Hollywood Forever is in the heart of Los Angeles. Our lawns are endowed by past purchasers to be green and manicured, providing an ideal, long-term environment for planting and fostering more trees — creating a forest even where once there were open lawns.

Over the past fifteen years, we have learned from our clients at Fernwood that, for many, the most compelling, meaningful memorial option is the planting of a native tree. These special tree burials provide a unique opportunity to celebrate a loved one’s life by making the planet a healthier, more beautiful space.

Inspired by this, the Ancestral Forest Project at Hollywood Forever re-imagines our 52 acres as an ever-growing ancestral forest with hundreds of new memorial trees planted year after year, creating a dense forest of memory where future generations will come to honor those who came before them. Each tree burial will be a moving testament to a life lived.

This resulting Ancestral Forest will conserve water, cool the surrounding cityscape, process CO2, and release oxygen into the environment.

Your memorial tree on our green burial site will provide a sanctuary for wildlife (and for our cats and peacocks) for years to come.

With your final act, you can leave behind an environmental legacy of hope and renewal.

Give Back to the Natural World

How the Ancestral Forest Project Works

1. Select a Tree Burial or Natural Burial Space

Choose from the hundreds of available spaces where a memorial tree will have enough light and room to thrive.

2. Select a Tree

You may plant a new tree, or you may choose to place cremated remains near an existing tree. If you select a space adjacent to an existing tree, a contribution will be made to an endowment trust that will provide for the tree’s care and, if necessary, replanting. (Space sufficient for at least two cremation plots adjoins every newly planted memorial tree on our burial ground. Additional, adjacent spaces can accommodate entire families, now and into the future.) For new tree plantings, we have a variety of beautiful native species that are beneficial to the environment and its local flora and fauna. Once you have made a selection, we will procure your tree from our trusted source. 

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3. Tree Planting Ceremony

Seeding the roots of a new tree with the cremated remains of someone beloved to you builds a bridge between a life well-lived and one that is just beginning. Bearing witness to the natural cycles of life can offer intuitive healing for survivors and loved-ones.

For new trees, the planting can also be incorporated into the tree burial ceremony.

Cremated remains are mixed with the roots and soil of the tree near its base – either during planting or adjacent to existing trees.

A biodegradable urn will foster the growth of the new tree while still remaining ecologically respectful. We welcome the use of the Living Urn and Bio Urn systems, both of which combine cremated remains with nutrients to provide optimal conditions for a new tree to thrive. Either tree burial urn you choose will be welcome on our green burial ground.

Rather than the saplings suggested for these two systems, we opt for hardy, robust trees — at least 8 years of age — whose viability is assured.

Tree Burial Pricing and Packages

Heritage Program

With our Heritage Program, you may select to have your cremated remains placed in a space adjacent to one of our existing mature trees, including our cypress sentinels, California fan palms, redwoods, olives, and numerous other species.

A portion of your fund will be placed into an endowment trust to ensure the long-term care and maintenance of your living memorial, or its replacement, if necessary. Some species, like California Fan Palms, have a lifespan of 80 to 250 years.

— from $3,500

Memorial Tree Program

Newly planted memorial trees that accommodate the placement of two sets of cremated remains: from $12,795. Additional cremation rights may be purchased.

Family Tree Program

Newly planted memorial trees that accommodate the placement of six sets of cremated remains: from $24,295. Additional cremation rights may be purchased.

Further Memorialization Options

In addition to the tree itself, a simply engraved natural boulder placed at the base of your living memorial can offer a beautiful tribute and complementary form of memorialization.

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Live Oaks

Our preferred choice for new planting.  Live Oaks are native to our region and thrive in our conditions.

Cypress

Italian cypress make statuesque and striking tree memorials. Many older specimens have thrived on our grounds and mark historic burials.

Jacaranda

A southern California classic – there burst of purple blooms heralds the arrival of summer.

Canary Pine

Though native to the Canary Islands, this hearty pine and fast growing pine thrives in our climate conditions

Palms

The Mexican Fan Palm (Washington Robusta) help create the distinct landscape Southern California is known for.

Ginko

Considered the oldest living species of tree, Gingko trees are planted around temple in Asia. They are famous for the stunning yellow their fan shaped leaves in the fall.