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The men and women are interred at Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, San Mateo County, California.
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- Kay Boyle was born on 19 February 1902 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. She was a writer, known for Five Days One Summer (1982), General Electric Theater (1953) and The Ford Theatre Hour (1948). She was married to Baron Joseph von Franckenstein, Laurence Vail and Richard Brault. She died on 27 December 1992 in Mill Valley, California, USA.
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He had a long career in theater before making movies, playing hundreds of roles, mostly rustic bumpkins, in stage and stock. His film career included two isolated early films: White Woman (1933) and Soak the Rich (1936). It began in earnest with the part of Orion Peabody in the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn wartime drama Keeper of the Flame (1942); Kilbride was already fifty-four by then. The movie public really came to recognize him when he played the part of Pa Kettle (against Marjorie Main's Ma) in The Egg and I (1947), a role he reprised for seven more "Ma and Pa Kettle" movies, the last of which, and the last of his career, was in 1955.Plot: Section 2B, Marker 3771- One of the memorable purveyors of screen villainy in the '60s, Theo graduated with a B.A. and M.A. in classical literature from Stanford University and was at one time artist-in-residence. The son of fur designer Theodore Meyer Marcuse (1893-1983), he served with distinction as a lieutenant aboard the USS Tirante during World War II, earning himself a Silver Star and other citations for bravery. After the war, he trained as an actor with the company of Guthrie McClintic. Specializing in Shakespearean roles, he made his Broadway debut in 1947 with "Antony and Cleopatra" (as Demetrius) opposite Katharine Cornell. He then appeared in "Medea"' (1949) with Judith Anderson, again staged and produced by McClintock; and "King Richard II" (1951) with Betsy Blair and Maurice Evans. At the 1959 Oregon Shakespearean Festival Theo acted in both "Twelfth Night" and in "The Life and Death of King John"'.
His classical training stood him in good stead for the menacing roles he was tasked to play on screen, added to which was his somewhat sinister, bald-pated and shifty-eyed appearance. He also looked quite a bit older than his years may have suggested. Theo spent a long time serving his apprenticeship in smallish parts until he established a reputation as a skilled dialectician, ideally cast as assorted eastern Europeans, arrogant Nazi officers or crime figures of Arabic, Italian or Jewish extraction. He frequently veered towards comedic interpretations of villainy, notably for Get Smart (1965) and Hogan's Heroes (1965). His Zoltan Schubach in the spy spoof The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966) (almost certainly a parody of Bond super villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld) may well have inspired the Austin Powers character Dr. Evil.
On occasion, Theo escaped his typecasting. He was particularly effective as the sympathetic scientist Dr. Noel Markham in "The Leeches", one of the best early episodes of The Invaders (1967). He is particularly well-remembered as Korob, an extra-galactic life-form in humanoid shape who captured several crew members of the Enterprise in the Star Trek (1966) episode "Catspaw"'.
Theo's life was tragically cut short at the age of 47 as a result of a car crash while driving under the influence.Plot: Section 2C, Site 1835 - Chester William Nimitz (; February 24, 1885 - February 20, 1966) was a fleet admiral of the United States Navy. He played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet, and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, commanding Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II.
- Leo Ryan was a Democratic Congressman. He served with the U.S. Navy from 1943-46 as a submariner, and graduated from Nebraska's Creighton University with an A.B. and an M.S. He was a high school history teacher, later serving as a South San Francisco city councilman from 1956 to 1962, then was elected mayor of South San Francisco. Less than a year later, he was elected to the California State Assembly, and in 1972, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the 11th Congressional District of California.
In 1978, reports regarding the Peoples Temple, led by cult leader Jim Jones, began to filter out stories of abuse and human rights violations. Ryan decided to go to Jonestown, the Peoples Temple's main enclave, to investigate.
In November 1978, Ryan and his staff arrived in Georgetown, Guyana. For three days, Ryan negotiated with Jones' legal counsel and held meetings with embassy and Guyanese officials. Finally, Ryan and several aides boarded a small plane to the Jonestown compound. Initially, the welcome at Jonestown was warm, but after only a few hours Ryan and his entourage began receiving notes and requests to leave. The next morning, Ryan and his aides continued their interviews, and met a woman who secretly expressed her wish to leave Jonestown with her family. The group wishing to leave departed Jonestown and arrived at the airstrip. Peoples Members then ambushed the group and opened fire, killing Congressman Ryan and four others, wounding another nine.
The following day, the Guyanese army, ordered to arrest Jones and disarm Jonestown, cut through the jungle to reach the settlement, and discovered all 900 of its inhabitants dead. Leo Ryan's body was returned to the United States and is now interred in Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, California. He was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal. He is the only member of Congress to have been killed in the line of duty. - Sailor Sharkey was born on 26 November 1873 in Dundalk, Ireland. He was an actor, known for The Coast Patrol (1925), The 13th Juror (1927) and Isle of Lost Men (1928). He died on 17 April 1953 in San Francisco, California, USA.Plot: Section R, Grave 454
- Richmond Kelly Turner was born on 27 May 1885. He died on 12 February 1961.Plot: Section C, Grave 7
- Raymond A. Spruance was born on 3 July 1886 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He died on 13 December 1969 in Monterey, California, USA.
- Dan White was a former paratrooper in Vietnam who joined the San Francisco Police Department in 1969. In 1973, he left the force and joined the fire department, winning many awards for bravery. In 1977 he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The following year, he resigned from the Board, frustrated by the low salary - $9,600 a year. A few days later he asked Mayor George Moscone to reappoint him. Moscone refused, and on November 27, 1978, White entered City Hall through a window in the parking area and shot and killed Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.
San Francisco, which was still reeling from the Jonestown massacre just nine days earlier, was indescribably shocked at the assassination of its mayor and popular supervisor Milk. Supervisor Dianne Feinstein was sworn in as the new mayor.
White was charged with first-degree murder and faced the death penalty, but was convicted only of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to 7 years. The jury accepted a diminished capacity defense based on testimony that White was suffering from untreated depression--a misnomer that became known in the media as the "Twinkie defense." Outraged San Franciscans responded to the sentence by rioting at City Hall.
White was paroled in 1984 after serving just five years, and returned to San Francisco despite a request by Feinstein to stay away. Unable to make a new life for himself, White attached a hose to the exhaust pipe of the family car and took his life on the morning of October 21, 1985. White left suicide notes to members of his family and died clutching family photos. An Irish ballad, "The Town I Loved So Well", reportedly sounded from the car's cassette player.