Home to the resting places of Howard Hughes, William P. Hobby and other Texas VIPs, Glenwood Cemetery opened in 1871.
Glenwood Cemetery was the first in the city to be professionally designed. Landscape artist Alfred Whitaker was brought in from England for the job. He molded the cemetery around the undulating hills thrown up by Buffalo Bayou floods. Today, Glenwood is a peaceful place for families, the bereaved, and the merely curious to reflect on the monuments and the fact that the best views of Houston's skyline are reserved for the dead. It is worth a few hours to wander through the twisting lanes to see the sculptures, the soaring obelisks, and the historic markers.
The cemetery's most famous resident is Hollywood big-wig, aviator, and legendary eccentric Howard Hughes. His grave lies in a fenced-off family plot. It is hard to spot because the marker is flush with the ground.
This historic cemetery is also the final resting place of a number of individuals who were citizens of the shortlived Republic of Texas. The grave sites of those individuals have been designated with a metal marker and are frequently decorated with the flag of the Republic and State of Texas.
Notable burials in Glenwood Cemetery include:
*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
*Margaret Kinkaid, founder of The Kinkaid School in Houston's Piney Point area
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