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Forest Lawn Memorial Park
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Full Name Adele W Griffith
AKA Full Name Adele Willard Buzzo
People ID 224139
Title
First Name Adele
AKA First Name Adele
Nickname
Middle Name Jane
AKA Middle Willard
Patronymic/Matronymic
Priorsurnames Buzzo
Surname Griffith
AKA Surname Buzzo
Father's Surname Willard
Mother's Surname Gault
Suffix
Gender Female
Full Birth Date If Known 1862-01-08
Birth Year 1862
Birth Month 1
Birth Day 8
Full Death Date If Known 1931-07-07
Death Year 1931
Death Month 7
Death Day 7

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Event Date Geo Top Level Geo 2nd Level Geo 3rd Level Geo 4th Level Geo 5th Level Notes
Birth1862/01/08USAWisconsinRacineWaterford
Death1931/07/07USATexasKerr

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Interment, Inurnment or Memorialization Information

Cemetery Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Address 1712 S. Glendale Avenue
City/Town Glendale
County/District Los Angeles
State/Province California
Postal/Zip Code 91205
Country/Principality USA
SectionSunrise Slope
Map1
Lot3784
Space1
Organization
Property TypeGround
Has MarkerYes
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Sunrise Slope
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The Chapman Memorial - base of Sunrise Slope along Valley Way
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Sunrise Slope
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Below the Temple of Santa Sabina (Doheny Mausoleum) near the top of the hill
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Inscription Information

Adele Willard Buzzo
1863 - 1931





Biographical or other information about the person

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Adele is listed on the Forest Lawn website under what is apparently her last married surname, as Adele W. Griffith. However, her marker shows her previous married name, Adele Willard Buzzo.

She married Samuel Buzzo in Santa Cruz County, California, on 7 July 1889. The couple had at least 3 children together and showed up in the 1900 census in San Jose, California.

I haven't found them in the census again, and Samuel died in 1920. Adele remarried in 1925, to Evan Griffith, but the only record I have found for the two of them together is the California marriage record.

Adele drops out of view after that. I can't find her or Evan in the 1930 census, and I can't find her in the California Death Index under any of her married names. So the only information I have on her death is the year, which was 1931 if the marker is correct.

In 1930 one of her two sons was living in Texas so I took a stab at seeing if she showed up in a Texas Death Index, and by gum, she did. It's obviously her, she's listed as Adele "Williard" Griffith and she died in Kerr County, Texas.

Since all of her children were with Buzzo, I'm guessing that's why her marker reads Buzzo rather than Griffith. In any event, there's one more mystery I can scratch off my list.

By the way, the birth year on her marker is just wrong. I don't know if someone got her age wrong or what, but all the paper records show her birth as 1862 and the specific birth date is from the Texas death certificate. Since all the paper records concur, there's no reason to think her birth year was anything other than 1862.


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