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2009 Living History Tour

L. B. Nye portrays convicted murderess Louise Peete (1889-1947).Harold K. Smith as William Henry Shores (1859-1922), bank guard, greeter, and right hand man to Security First National Bank president Joseph Sartori.

Every year, WAHA selects different individuals buried at the cemetery to portray. At this year’s Living History Tour, visitors met:

• Jean Goldkette, the “Prince of Jazz,” a jazz pianist and bandleader whose orchestras included, at various times, Bix Beiderbecke, Hoagy Carmichael, and Tommy Dorsey;
• William H. Shores, the first African American employee of the Security Trust & Savings Bank, founded in 1889 (predecessor to Security Pacific Bank/Bank of America);
• Katharine Putnam Hooker and her daughter, Marion Osgood Hooker, both adventurers, artists and creative spirits who were friends of John Muir and astronomer George Ellery Hale;
• Remi Nadeau, grandson of a Los Angeles pioneer whose family once owned the land the cemetery sits upon; and
• Everett Sloan, an actor (Citizen Kane) and member of Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater troupe.

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