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Greenwood Memorial Park is a cemetery in the northwest United States, located in Renton, Washington, a suburb southeast of Seattle.It is notable as the resting place of rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970), a Seattle native; [1] [2] over 14,000 fans visit his memorial annually.
[92] [nb 22] [nb 23] Stickells said he received a phone call regarding a problem with Hendrix "between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m." [89] Mitchell said he waited for Hendrix at the Speakeasy Club until they closed at 4 a.m., and a couple of hours after his hour and a half drive home, he received a phone call from Stickells, who told him Hendrix had died. [96]
Hendrix's paternal grandparents, Ross and Nora Hendrix, pre-1912. Hendrix was of African-American and alleged Cherokee descent. [nb 1] His paternal grandfather, Bertran Philander Ross Hendrix, was born in 1866 from an extramarital affair between a woman named Fanny and a grain merchant from either Urbana, Ohio or Illinois, one of the wealthiest men in the area at that time.
In 2004, while conducting research for the Hendrix biography, Cross discovered the gravesite of Jimi Hendrix's mother, Lucille Jeter Hendrix, in an abandoned section of Greenwood Memorial Park, where Jimi Hendrix was buried. Her gravesite was lost because the standard welfare marker of her day, an inscribed brick, was buried in decades of mud. [6]
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The current John Hendrix grave marker was purchased and placed by Dorothy Bruce, a teacher at Jefferson Junior High School, and her students in 1967. Oak Ridge Historian Ray Smith said the grave ...
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