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Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Section Whispering Pines Lot 2552 Space 4
Filename P1470845.JPG
Image © 2023 by Christopher Mills

People Names and Dates


Full Name	Russell Lee Stine
AKA Full Name
People ID	736901
Title
First Name	Russell
AKA First Name
Nickname
Middle Name	Lee
AKA Middle
Patronymic/Matronymic
Priorsurnames
Surname	Stine
AKA Surname
Father's Surname	Stine
Mother's Surname	Briggs
Suffix
Gender	Male
Full Birth Date If Known	1898-05-22
Birth Year	1898
Birth Month	5
Birth Day	22
Full Death Date If Known	1916-06-19
Death Year	1916
Death Month	6
Death Day	19

Events, Dates and Places

Event	Date	Geo Top Level	Geo 2nd Level	Geo 3rd Level	Geo 4th Level	Notes
Birth	1898/05/22	USA	Indiana
Death	1916-06-19	USA	California	Los Angeles	Los Angeles
Cremated	1916-06-22	USA	California	Los Angeles	Los Angeles	Cremated at Rosedale (now Angelus Rosedale) and ashes returned to family
Interment/Inurnment/Scattering	1950/03/31	USA	California	Los Angeles	Glendale

Relationships

Relationship	Related To	Relative's People ID	Relative's Birth Year	Relative's Death Year	Other Date (typically Marriage Date)
Real Name of	John Joseph Egan	164761
Son of	Anna Lina Briggs Stine McClain	378807	1876	1950

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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
Section	Whispering Pines
Map	3
Lot	2552
Space	4

Organization
Property Type	Ground
Has Marker	Yes
No Marker
Is Cenotaph
GPS/LatLong Coordinates
End of Interment Record	If there are additional interments or cenotaphs for this person they will appear below

Whispering Pines
Filename P1470833.JPG
The Finding of Moses Pool - close to the northernmost point of Whispering Pines
across from Kindly Light and the Wee Kirk Churchyard
GPS Coordinates 34.12626,-118.24949
Image © 2023 by Christopher Mills

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https://mills-sfv.com/Genealogy/GLS/People/Text/736901.txt

I found his marker in February 2023 and was a bit stumped by it. I knew I had the lot and space right but the Forest Lawn website lists this space under "John Joseph Egan" with no dates. The webcemeteries site for Glendale shows the interment date as 31 March 1950.

If I had looked at space 3 of that lot and not just spaces 4 - 6 the marker for the woman in Space 3 would have led me down this path sooner, but I didn't. I could find no records on a John Egan and the only Russell L Stine in Southern California I could find had died in 1916. However, I did find his family search record. An indication was made that he had been buried (actually inurned) in 1916 but when I looked at the reference card from Rosedale Crematory it noted that his ashes were returned to his family after cremation, so he was not in fact inurned at Rosedale (now Angelus Rosedale) cemetery.

So the problem I had was tying the Russell Stine who died in 1916 to this man who was inurned in Forest Lawn in 1950. Fortunately, looking at his family search record I noticed that his mother was Anna Lina Briggs Stine but that at the time of her death her surname was McClain. That rang a bell and I looked again at who was buried next to Russell in Space 3 of the same lot and wonder of wonders, it turned out to be Anna McClain! She had separated from or divorced Russell's father between 1900 and 1910 and married a lodger of hers named Elmer McClain some time in the 1940s (sources differ on the date). I would question this as Elmer was almost 25 years younger than Anna, but multiple sources confirm their marriage.

In any event, that seals the deal as far as I am concerned. Anna McClain must have had some health issues or otherwise had a premonition of her approaching meeting with her maker, because Russell was inurned on 31 March 1950 and Anna died on the 10th of May 1950, less than two months later. Her death certificate says she was buried on 12 May 1950, finally being reunited with her son who had died almost 34 years earlier.

BTW, I did check Find A Grave to see if there was a marker photo for Anna, and there was. It doesn't show her maiden name, but it does show her prior married name, the marker lists her as "Anna Stine McClain."

As for John Joseph Egan, I have no idea who he is or was, although if he was an adult male in 1950 he is most likely dead by now. The informant on Anna's d/c was her husband Elmer McClain. If I ever call the Forest Lawn records office again and manage to get hold of Dennis V. if he is still working there it might be worth asking a few questions as to where the name came from. He could be the person who purchased the lot for Russell's remains, but I don't know why his name would not come off the entry once Russell was inurned there.

There is a John Joseph Egan who was born in 1897 and died in 1963 who is buried in Compton, California, which is not that far from Glendale. If I get bored some time I will do some digging and see if I can find any connection between him and the Stines or Anna McClain. But I'm not holding my breath as far as finding one.

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Family Search ID	LZVF-XQ9
Find A Grave 1	92273860
Famous per Find A Grave
Famous per Consensus
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BillionGraves Record ID
Other websites
Record Entry Date	2023-04-19 20:40:36
Record Last Edit Date	2023-04-19 22:15:41

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