EL MONTE – Just in time for Halloween, the city is offering a sunset tour of the Savannah Memorial Park, a state historic landmark where many of the area’s early pioneers are buried. Hear the history ...

ROSEMEAD – If it wants to save the Savannah Memorial Park, the El Monte Cemetery Association may have to let it go. The association, which owns the 4-acre pioneer cemetery at 9263 Valley Blvd., will ...

ROSEMEAD – Residents want to save one of the area’s oldest cemeteries. The Savannah Memorial Park, a 4-acre cemetery on Valley Boulevard, has experienced financial hardship in recent years. According ...

There’s no resting in peace for Paula Hinkel, nor, she worries, for a cemetery she loves. She is among the history buffs and amateur genealogists who revere cemeteries. They like the tranquillity, the ...

ROSEMEAD – Children climbed rocks, longtime residents sipped beer and a band played as couples strolled through the Savannah Memorial Park on Saturday. This was the first Halloween Oktoberfest – a ...

Beverly and Jim Morten were happy to see it: rain washing over the gravestones at Savannah Memorial Park, pooling water in the shallow, rock-lined holes around crape myrtles they helped plant. “Maybe ...