Sharon Memorial Park, Massachusetts
{{short description|Jewish cemetery in Massachusetts}}
{{About|a graveyard in Massachusetts|the graveyard in North Carolina|Sharon Memorial Park, North Carolina}}
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Sharon Memorial Park is a Jewish cemetery founded in 1948 located in Sharon, Massachusetts.{{cite web|title=Sharon Memorial Park|url=https://www.jcam.org/Pages/Cemeteries/Cemetery_Pages/Sharon_Memorial_Park.htm|website=jcam.org|publisher=Jewish Cemetery Association|accessdate=20 November 2015}}{{cite news|last1=Lebeaux|first1=Rachel|title=What is it like to live in Sharon?|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/09/19/what-like-live-sharon/uIjVyuziKm1AYr12JrSEZI/story.html|accessdate=20 November 2015|publisher=Boston Globe|date=20 September 2015}} The cemetery is situated on 317 acres of land within the towns of Sharon and Canton.
Notable interments
- Irving Fine (1914–1962), composer and conductor
- Richard Frank (1953–1995), actor
- Elizabeth Glaser (1947–1994), AIDS activist and former wife of actor Paul Michael Glaser
- Melvin J. Glimcher{{cite news|last1=Stickgold|first1=Emma|title=Melvin Glimcher, 88; doctor fascinated by bones’ structure|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/06/04/melvin-glimcher-pioneering-bone-researcher-was-developer-boston-arm/FmsUBkJfYfAh92z7Zf8URO/story.html|accessdate=20 November 2015|publisher=Boston Globe|date=5 June 2014}}
- Edith Fishtine Helman (1905–1994), professor at Simmons College
- Minuetta Kessler (1914–2002), concert pianist, classical music composer, and educator{{cite news |title=Minuetta Kessler, Pianist and Teacher |first=Jeff |last=Nilsen |date=1 December 2002 |newspaper=The Boston Globe}}
- Simon Kuznets (1901–1985), Nobel Prize recipient
- Daniel Lewin (1970–2001), entrepreneur who co-founded Akamai Technologies and September 11 attacks victim
- Sumner Redstone (1923–2020), National Amusements and Viacom chairman[https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=sumner-m-redstone&pid=196643826 Sumner M. Redstone]
- William Rosenberg (1916–2002), founder of Dunkin' Donuts
- Mark Sandman (1952–1999), rock musician and songwriter
- Ruth Wallis (1920–2007), cabaret singer
References
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External links
- [http://www.sharonmemorial.com/ Sharon Memorial Park]
- {{Find a Grave cemetery}}
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Category:1948 establishments in Massachusetts
Category:Cemeteries in Norfolk County, Massachusetts