Have you ever heard of the organization, "Find a Grave"? https://www.findagrave.comIt is the world largest gravesite collection. So if you ever are looking for a person who passed away, and you can not find them. Try this wonderful volunteer organization.
Recently, volunteers were searching around in the Cypress View Mausoleum, Mortuary and Crematory next to Mount Hope Cemetery in San Diego. And they accidentally discovered the ashes of famous architect Irving Gill.
“It was shocking,” James Guthrie, president of the Irving J. Gill Foundation, said of the discovery. “We all thought his ashes were scattered. But no one had done the deep dive. …
Gill] was such an important person to San Diego in terms of the built environment. San Diego looks the way it does because of him. We still build based on the style he created.....As it turns out, the ashes were stored in a cardboard box with the word “Hold” written on it, meaning they were being held until a family member could collect them. For reasons unknown, that never happened.
“He was put in a cabinet waiting for family to come get him,” Guthrie said. “So he sat there for almost 90 years.”
(LA Jolla Light , October 3, 2024 page 1)
So, if you wish to see HISTORIC La Jolla, come view the recreation center on Draper Avenue, and The La Jolla Womens Club also in Draper, both designed and built by Irving Gill with the financial support of Ellen Browning Scripps.
And Happy Halloween.
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