Locations
HILLS OF ETERNITY MEMORIAL PARK
Hills of Eternity Memorial Park has designated sections for several Bay Area synagogues: Congregation Beth Am, Congregation Etz Chayim, Congregation Beth Jacob, Congregation Kol Emeth, Congregation Or Shalom, Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, and Peninsula Sinai Congregation.
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HOME OF PEACE
CEMETERY
Home of Peace consists of twenty acres of graciously landscaped gardens at the foot of the San Bruno Mountains. It has designated sections for two Bay Area synagogues: Congregation Beth Sholom (San Francisco) and Peninsula Temple Sholom (Burlingame).
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SALEM
MEMORIAL PARK
Located on fifteen acres of beautifully landscaped gardens and gentle slopes. Congregation B’nai Emunah and Congregation Ner Tamid have designated sections in the cemetery, in addition to the many plots for families from Congregation Beth Israel Judea.
MORE INFO1849 – San Francisco cemeteries overgrown due to the Gold Rush conditions.
1880 – The public opinion manifested against new properties to bury their dead. The newspapers often showed headlines like ” Cemeteries Must Go!”
1890 – California passed State Penal Code 297 prohibiting burials anywhere except in an established cemetery
1901 – San Francisco’s ordinance banned new burials within city limits.
1902 – Financial toll on the cemeteries maintenance and security. Looting graves and mausoleums turned burial grounds into gruesome ruin.
1906 – The Jewish Cemeteries Hills of Eternity and Home of Peace were the first cemeteries to move the Lawndale’s farmland (in 1941 the city of Lawndale was officially renamed Colma).
1914 – Eviction noticed was sent to all cemeteries within San Francisco city limits to remove bodies, monuments, and facilities
1924- Lawndale was recognized as a city with the purpose of preserving and protecting the deads with a total of 14 cemeteries.
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Amenities
Greenhouse
Maintenance planting are available to bed sizes 12 by 24 inch and 12 by 36 inch flower beds. You can also plant and maintain your own flower bed with plants from our greenhouse.
Call the Cemetery Office at (650) 755-4700 for more information.
Flower Fields
Lovely and unique flower field surrounds the property. Studies shows that walking around flowers can help you relax and decrease anxiety. It’s just make you feel better: it’s the healing power of nature.
Advance Burial Planning
Death is a sacred moment of life where we must discuss it and plan it. Pre-planning is a mitzvah. All the process of pre-plannning will provide comfort to family and friends.
Pre-arrange the before and after burial logistic would protect your family from financial e emotional stress.
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Sympathy Store
The convenient online sympathy store offers a large selection of gift baskets, memorial gifts, comfort food, gourmet meals, grief books, flowers, and much more.
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To everything, there is a season
and a time for every purpose
under the heaven.
– Ecclesiastes