Evergreen Cemetery (Oakland, California)


Evergreen Cemetery is a cemetery, crematorium and mausoleum located in Oakland, California, near the Eastmont Town Center and Mills College. The cemetery is on a small hill, with a large combined mausoleum, crematorium and chapel at the top of the hill. It is the second largest cemetery in Oakland, after the Mountain View Cemetery and Saint Mary Cemetery complex. It is full, and closed to new interments, but still operates a crematorium.

Jonestown memorial

412 unclaimed bodies of the Jonestown mass suicide are buried at Evergreen. A set of four memorial plaques with the names of all dead were placed at the site in 2011, which controversially includes the name of Jim Jones and his inner circle members, the architects of the mass suicide, who died with the followers, but are not buried at the cemetery.

Notable interments

Various notable people are buried at Evergreen:
There is a section of the cemetery reserved for members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club.