Hills of Eternity Memorial Park

Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, also known as Giboth Olam,^[1] is a Jewish cemetery founded in 1889, and is located at 1301 El Camino Real, in Colma, California.^[2][3] This cemetery is owned by Congregation Sherith Israel of San Francisco.^[4] It is one of four Jewish cemeteries near the city of San Francisco and it shares an adjacent space next to the Home of Peace cemetery (also a Jewish cemetery, and also founded in 1889).^[2] At Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, Jewish burials are traditionally done side-by-side, which means there is a need for larger grounds and ground maintenance.^[2]

Hills of Eternity Memorial Park
Portals of Eternity mausoleum and chapel at Hills of Eternity, designed by Samuel Hyman and Abraham Appleton (completed 1934)
Details
Established	1889; 136 years ago (1889)
Location	Colma, California
Country	United States
Coordinates	37°40′35″N 122°27′14″W
Type	Jewish
Owned by	Congregation Sherith Israel
Website	Official website
Find a Grave	Hills of Eternity Memorial Park

History

Wyatt and Josephine Earp grave at Hills of Eternity Memorial Park

Emanu-El Hart (or the "Old Jewish Cemetery") was built in 1847 at Gough Street and Vallejo Street in San Francisco; by 1860 the graves were relocated to an area that is now Mission Dolores Park and this served as a cemetery for both the Congregation Emanu-El and the Congregation Sherith Israel.^[5][6] When the city of San Francisco started to see dramatic growth in population; it was decided to move the cemetery outside of the city to Colma and they established Home of Peace Cemetery and Hills of Eternity Memorial Park with each cemetery serving a different congregation.^[6]

Notable burials

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• Jacob W. Davis (1831–1908), Russian Empire-born (now Latvia) American tailor, credited with inventing modern jeans.
• Josephine Earp (1861–1944), the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp.^[7]
• Wyatt Earp (1848–1929), gambler and Old West lawman.^[7][8]
• Dianne Feinstein (1933–2023), United States Senator from California and mayor of San Francisco.
• Phil Goldman (1964–2003), software engineer and entrepreneur, co-founded WebTV.
• Lionel Mark Jacobs (1840–1922), businessman and politician.^[9]
• Savely Kramarov (1934–1995), a Soviet-born Russian American actor.^[10]
• Isaac Magnin (1842–1907), Dutch-born American businessperson, carver and gilder; co-founder of I. Magnin.^[11]
• Mary Ann Magnin (1850–1943), Dutch-born American businessperson and the co-founder of I. Magnin.
• Judith Graham Pool (1919–1975), doctor known for the discovery of cryoprecipitation.

See also

• List of cemeteries in California
• Bereavement in Judaism