Glenwood Cemetery (Houston, Texas)
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The Glenwood Cemetery is located at 2525 Washington Avenue in Houston, Texas. It is situated between Washington Avenue on the North side and Memorial Drive on the South side, the latter overlooking Buffalo Bayou.
Also buried here is William P. Hobby, after whom Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas is named. Ironically enough, in 1938, the William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, known at the time as Houston Municipal Airport, was re-named "Howard Hughes Airport," but the name was changed back after people objected to naming the airport after a living person. This is also the location of pioneering heart surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley's family gravesite.[1] Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas, is also buried here.[2]
[edit] Notable burials
- Joseph S. Cullinan, Founder of Texaco
- William Stamps Farish II, Co-founder, Humble Oil Company
- Albert Bel Fay, U.S. Ambassasor to Trinidad and Tobago
- Maria "Ria" Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham Gable, Texas socialite, married to Clark Gable 1931-1939
- James Wilson Henderson, Governor of Texas 1853
- Oveta Culp Hobby, U.S. Secretary, Department of Health, Education and Welfare 1953-1955
- William P. Hobby, Governor of Texas 1917-1921
- Roy Hofheinz, Father of the Astrodome
- Howard R. Hughes, Jr, Aviator, Industrialist
- Howard R. Hughes, Sr., Co-founder, Sharp-Hughes Tool Company, later renamed Hughes Tool Company
- Anson Jones, President, Republic of Texas 1844-1845
- Edgar Odell Lovett, President (1st), Rice University 1912-1946
- Glenn McCarthy, "King of the Wildcatters"
- Hiram Runnels, Governor of Mississippi 1833-1835
- Walter Benona Sharp, Co-founder, Sharp-Hughes Tool Company, later renamed Hughes Tool Company
- Ross S. Sterling, Governor of Texas 1931-1933; Co-founder, Humble Oil Company
- Gene Tierney, Hollywood Actress
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