DISTINGUISHED RESI D ENTS of Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary HILLSIDE HILLSIDE ,%'!#)%3 ,%'!#)%3 1 D ISTINGUISHED RESI D ENTS OF H ILLSI D E ME M O R IAL PA R K AN D MO R TUA R Y 2008 DISTINGUISHED RESIDENTS IR VING AA R ONSON (1895 – 1963) EVE R LASTING PEACE Irving Aaronson’s career began at the age of 11 as a movie theater pianist. In the 1920’s he became a Big Band leader with the Versatile Sextette DISTINGUISHED RESI D ENTS GUI D E : A LEGACY OF LEGEN D S and Irving Aaronson & the Commanders. The Commanders recorded “I’ll Get By,” Cole Porter’s “Let’s Misbehave,” “All By Ourselves in the Moonlight,” “Don’t Look at Me That Way” and “Hi-Ho the Merrio.” Irving Aaronson His band included members Gene Krupa, Claude Thornhill and Artie Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary has provided a place to Shaw. He later worked for MGM as a music coordinator for “Arrivederci Roma” (1957), “This Could Be the Night” (1957), “Meet Me in Las Vegas” honor the accomplishments and legacies of the Jewish community (1956) and as music advisor for “The Merry Widow” (1952). since 1942. We have made it our mission to provide southern ROSLYN ALFIN –SLATE R (1916 – 2002) GA rd EN OF SA R AH California with a memorial park and mortuary dedicated to Dr. Roslyn Alfin-Slater was a highly esteemed UCLA professor and nutrition expert. Her early work honoring loved ones in a manner that is fitting and appropriate. included studies on the relationship between cholesterol and essential fatty acid metabolism. She was a founder of UCLA’s public health nutrition program. At Hillside, we are committed to every one of the families who SHEL D ON ALL M AN (1924 – 2002) CANAAN 2 Sheldon Allman, a talented actor, songwriter, nightclub performer and recording artist, wrote the famous 3 have joined our community and are dedicated to preserving the words to the cartoon theme “George of the Jungle” and was the singing voice of a horse named Mister Ed memories of those who have left us because we realize that the on the 1961-65 CBS series. Allman began singing with the Canadian Royal National Guard. A graduate of the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music, his songs include “A Quiet Kind of Love” and “Christmas greatest tribute is not grief but gratitude for a life well lived. in the Air”; the theme songs for “Let’s Make a Deal,” “Split Second” and “Your First Impression”; and musical comedies such as the 1995 “Monster Mash.” A prolific character actor, he was the unsympathetic veterinarian Thompson in “Hud” (1963), Judge Harry Evers in “The Sons of Katie Elder” (1965) and the prison chaplain, Rev. Jim Post, in “In Cold Blood” (1967). Through the years, we have been entrusted with numerous distinguished and accomplished individuals from the Jewish SHEL D ON W. AN D ELSON (1931 – 1987) COU R TS OF THE BOOK Born in Boyle Heights, Sheldon W. Andelson was the first openly gay person appointed to a high position in community. Their legacies are memorialized at Hillside and it is California government when Governor Jerry Brown appointed him to the University of California Board of Regents in 1980. In 1987, the Los Angeles Times described him as a “Democratic heavyweight once regarded our privilege to pay tribute to some of the more widely known as the nation’s most influential gay political figure.” Sheldon had a successful career in law and real estate. clients whose legacies are recalled and honored at Hillside He was a major fundraiser for liberal politicians and served on the Committee of the 1984 Olympic Games held in Los Angeles. Memorial Park and Mortuary. HILLSIDE MEMORIAL PARK DISTINGUISHED RESIDENTS SCOTT ANTOLICK (1986 – 2003) CANAAN JACK BA R ENFEL D (1911 – 2003) MOUNT SHOLO M Born with a defective heart, Scott Antolick never let that dampen his commitment to helping others. A men’s sportswear pioneer, Jack Barenfeld created the sport shirt and was asked by the U.S. Department He was the American Heart Association’s youth ambassador and raised $15,000 in donations during of Defense to manufacture shirts for the U.S. Army during World War II. After the 1967 War, Barenfeld West Los Angeles Heart Walks in the final three years of his life. His charity didn’t stop there, he also was designated by the State of Israel to help establish apparel factories in Israel. Additionally, he tutored children in English and science; raised money for Camp Del Corazon, a Catalina Island camp for developed commercial real estate in Las Vegas and California. Active philanthropically, Barenfeld was a children with heart disease; and, with two friends, ran the nonprofit Komputers4Kids to provide donated founder of the Friars Club of California. computers to children in foster care. Shortly before he died, he was given an Outstanding Youth Volunteer Award by the National Association of Fundraising Professionals. To honor Scott, the Los Angeles chapter of the American Heart Association established the Scott Antolick Outstanding Youth Volunteer Award. SY D NEY R. BA R LO W (1906 – 1994) CANAAN Sydney Barlow was an attorney in private practice until he founded Gibraltar Savings & Loan Association. He served as chairman until retiring in 1975. When he bought the Beverly Hills Building and JU D Y AR NOL D (1939 – 2008) VALLEY OF RE M E mbr ANCE Loan Association in 1952, his wife, Rose, renamed the institution after the Rock of Gibraltar. At one time, Judy Arnold was a producer who got her start in Los Angeles and moved on to Broadway and London’s it was the 10th largest thrift in the nation. After Barlow sold the institution, it failed in 1989 in one of the West End. Several of her Los Angeles productions played at the Tiffany Theater including “Give ‘Em Hell country’s most expensive savings-and-loan collapses. The Barlows were major fundraisers for the City Harry” with Jason Alexander and “We Interrupt This Program” with Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow and of Hope and helped found the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Music Center and the American Gary Marshall. She took the comedy “Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks” from LA to Broadway and then to Film Institute. London. Born in Baltimore, Judy grew up in Los Angeles and attended UCLA. SAN D Y BA R ON (1937 – 2001) COU R TS OF THE BOOK SID AVE R Y (1919 – 2002) ACACIA GA rd ENS 4 Born Sanford Beresofsky, Baron’s career ran from a 1958 episode of “Naked City” to a role as a henchman 5 Sid Avery discovered photography at the young age of seven when his uncle, in “The Hi-Lo Country” (1998). He appeared as John Marino in “If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium” a landscape and architectural photographer, took him into the darkroom. As (1969) and as Richard in “Sweet November” (1968). He appeared on Seinfeld during the 1990s as Jack a teenager, Sid found his first camera in the trash and the rest is history. Sid’s Klompus as well as appearances on “Law & Order” (1990), “Crime Story” (1986), “Starsky and Hutch” professional career began as a fan magazine photographer and is best known for (1975), “Ironside” (1967), “Love, American Style” (1969) and “The Hollywood Squares” (1966). his later works: signature photographs which depicted the “everyday” lives of Hollywood stars such as Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Marlon Brando, Sid Avery Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor during the ‘50s and ‘60s. BETTY BA rr Y (1924 – 2003) CANAAN Mrs. Betty Barry appeared on Broadway with Ethel Barrymore in “The Grass is Green” and was the wife of actor Gene Barry. The Barrys met in New York City as young actors in the theater and starred together Erw IN BAKE R (1918 – 2005) GA rd EN OF ME M O R IES in a number of touring stage productions. A City Hall reporter and political columnist for the Los Angeles Times, Erwin Baker was known for his dogged, meticulous reporting from the early 1960s until he retired in 1983. As a student at UCLA, he became a correspondent for the now-defunct Los Angeles Examiner, where he continued working as BO bb Y BASS (1936 – 2001) GA rd EN OF ME M O R IES a reporter after graduation. During World War II, Baker was a public relations officer under Admiral Creator of on-camera heroics for such actors as John Wayne and Sylvester Stallone, Bobby Bass was a Chester Nimitz in the Pacific theater and witnessed Japan’s surrender aboard the battleship Missouri. He legendary stuntman. Equally adept at fistfights, explosions, car crashes or race driving, Bass was also returned to the Examiner and eventually became assistant city editor. When the Examiner merged with master of intricate martial arts. In 1986, he shared a Stunt Man Award for best vehicular stunt for his the Herald Express in 1962, Baker moved to the Times. After retiring, Baker worked in the public relations work “To Live and Die in L.A.” He performed in more than 40 films, including “Smokey and the Bandit” office of the Los Angeles Unified School District and as executive producer of a cable television news and its sequels, “Independence Day” (1996) “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”(1977) and “Scarface” program for then-City Councilman Ernani Bernardi. (1983). He set trends and worked to foster safer working conditions during stunts. HILLSIDE MEMORIAL PARK AND MORTUARY DISTINGUISHED RESIDENTS SHI R LEY WEISS BAY (1913 – 2001) EVE R LASTING PEACE JACK BENNY (1894 – 1974) MAUSOLEU M Shirley Weiss Bay’s philanthropic work began when she started playing the piano in psychiatric wards for Born Benjamin Kubelsky, Jack Benny was one of America’s greatest comedians, World War II veterans.