Where is rozz williams buried

The walls and pillars were inlaid with hundreds of little windows. We circled the perimeter of the room, gazing into the boxes. The first floor had a more somber tone, with what looked like books inscribed with the names of the deceased. That made the few occupied boxes stand out and catch our attention, with their urns and photos and mementos nestled in soft beds of velvet and satin.

The first case I saw contained a photograph of a glamorous blonde, caught in a sunlit smile. A necklace curled in a corner. Taped to the glass was a card left by a visitor. His ashes were kept in a box covered with vibrant tattoo art. These little shrines seemed so warm and intimate, infused with such a flavor of personality, compared to the cold stone slabs outside, marked with only names and years or maybe some lovely but generic statuary, not much else beyond a lump of marble to tell you about the person resting there.

We found Rozz in a pillar next to the staircase. His ashes were in a ceramic urn, flanked by a dead rose and a handwritten note. There were faint lipstick traces on the glass where someone had kissed him goodbye, along with fingerprints tracing out the Christian Death symbol, a X transposed over a cross.

In reading the note, I cursed not having a pen. There were a couple of lines I wanted to remember, which I paraphrase here:. I erect a burning temple in my heart, to house such treasures as these A thousand starlit memories to comfort me in my hours of need….

I badly wanted to pull it down and read it, but decorum prevented me. We spent a lot more time at Hollywood Forever than anticipated. We walked out of the columbarium and lingered over the rest of the grounds, exploring with our map. Frowned on the impersonal, filing-cabinet layout of the mausoleum in the back. Walking past the graves back to the car, I thought about how the first three decades of my life were over and how much more I want to do.

That how I decided to spend the time ahead of me was what would ultimately end up behind that glass. This essay originally appeared in Morbid Curiosity 9. She lives in Queens amid a clamor of doom metal noodling and four cats. If there is a cemetery that has touched your life, I would love to hear from you, particularly if there is one you visited on vacation. The submissions guidelines are here. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Email Address. Sign me up! Skip to content. Hollywood Forever by Loren Rhoads. Editorial Images. Creative video. Editorial video. Rozz formed the punk band "Christian Death" and later became a poet and painter. The historic Hollywood Forever Cemetery is where many of Hollywood's major talent and players are buried.

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