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Full Name Paul Joseph Smith
AKA Full Name Paul J. Smith
People ID 544384
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First Name Paul
AKA First Name Paul
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Middle Name Joseph
AKA Middle J.
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Surname Smith
AKA Surname Smith
Father's Surname Smith
Mother's Surname Schmitt
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Gender Male
Full Birth Date If Known 1906-10-30
Birth Year 1906
Birth Month 10
Birth Day 30
Full Death Date If Known 1985-01-25
Death Year 1985
Death Month 1
Death Day 25

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Event Date Geo Top Level Geo 2nd Level Geo 3rd Level Geo 4th Level Geo 5th Level Notes
Birth1906/10/30USAMichiganHoughtonCalumet
Death1985/01/25USACaliforniaLos AngelesGlendale

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Relationship Related To Relative's People ID Relative's Birth Year Relative's Death Year Other Date (typically Marriage Date)
Son ofJoseph J. Smith68722818761936
Son ofAnna M Schmidt Smith68722618761947
Brother ofJerome Conrad Smith68722719041996
Husband ofTheresa Allen Smith687214190819971930-1931

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https://mills-sfv.com/Genealogy/GLS/People/Text/544384.txt

The person who put him into Find A Grave thinks he is at Forest Lawn Glendale. That's plausible, since he died in Glendale. Unfortunately, it's probably not true.

Forest Lawn does in fact list a "Paul J. Smith" on their website who appears to share a niche with Helen Hempstead Smith. There is only one problem. Her Paul J. Smith would be her husband, who was born in 1892 and died in 1971, and appears to be buried at Glen Haven in Sylmar (see This record for Paul J. Smith. The Forest Lawn website lists no dates for the Paul J. Smith they have in their database, which doesn't tell us much of anything, unfortunately. As I occasionally try to point out to people, absence of information doesn't prove anything, only information can prove or disprove a thesis.

Helen Hempstead Smith appears to have no connection whatsoever to the Paul J. Smith who worked for the Disney studio. I tracked her husband back three generations and there is no evidence his Smith line is related to the other Smith family.

So, applying Occam's razor here, if there were a Paul J. Smith buried with Helen, it would be her husband, not the other Paul Smith who worked for Disney. Some day when I'm bored I'll call up Forest Lawn and ask them about Helen and Paul. I don't know why her husband Paul isn't with her (as it certainly doesn't look like he is), if I were to hazard a guess I would say that perhaps they were divorced before his death.

Here is an obit for Paul from the Los Angeles Times: (from GenealogyBank, subscription required)

Disney Film Score Composer Paul Smith Dies

The obituary doesn't list where he was buried or otherwise committed to the great beyond.




Disney LegendPosthumously awarded in 1994
Forest Lawn Glendale famous people that Find A Grave doesn't have marked as famousHe should be marked as famous, but he's not buried at Forest Lawn, So as I noted below, the conflicting keywords cancel each other out for calculating the famous people in Glendale.
Forest Lawn Glendale famous people that find a grave thinks are buried there who aren'tI think he should be famous, but Find A Grave has yet to agree. However, he's still not buried at Forest Lawn Glendale. The conflicting keywords cancel each other out for calculating the famous people in Glendale.
The Three Lives of Thomasina (film)Composed and/or scored music
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Family Search ID L67Y-22T
Find A Grave 1 97348091
Famous per Find A Grave
Famous per Consensus Yes
Find A Grave 2
Find A Grave 3
BillionGraves Record ID
Other websites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Smith_(composer)
Record Entry Date 2012-01-23 01:00:00
Record Last Edit Date 2020-12-19 09:17:00

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