Visiting David Lynch’s Grave at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery

In January 2025, I was deeply saddened when my fellow Bookhouse Boy and Twin Peaks Blog author Vinnie Guidera sent me a text informing me David Lynch had passed. I knew one day it would happen but I didn’t expect it to happen this year. Nine months later, I found myself in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California paying my respects to a visionary director, talented actor, loving father, and all around good human being.

WHERE IS DAVID LYNCH’S GRAVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY?

David Lynch in buried in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. This national cemetery was founded in 1899 and is the resting place of hundreds of Hollywood legends, “including Judy Garland, Cecil B. DeMille, Rudolph Valentino, Mickey Rooney, Tyrone Power, Douglas Fairbanks, Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone, Valerie Harper, Chris Cornell, and hundreds of others.” And is also the burial site of thousands of neighborhood residents and individuals from across the globe.

The approximate coordinates for David Lynch’s grave are 34.089279, -118.317541.

His grave is found along Nelson Eddy Drive, named for the “American actor and baritone singer who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs.”

On the day I visited, a giant stone carving was found above David’s headstone. No one knows who placed it there including his daughter Jennifer Lynch who was surprised to see the photo I posted on the Twin Peaks Blog Instagram. I removed the stone in the photo above via Photoshop but you’ll see it in other shots from my visit.

The Hollywood Forever Cemetery added two blue cones in front of David’s grave to prevent people from parking at the spot. His grave is a popular destination with fans who leave mementos in honor of this visionary director. If you look carefully in this shot, you’ll see the Hollywood sign far in the distance above the white building on the right side of the image.

The view across the street from David’s grave is known as the Garden of Legends.

DAVID KEITH LYNCH’S GRAVE

As mentioned, I found a giant stone carving placed above David Lynch’s grave when I visited on October 26.

The earliest photo I found of it on Instagram was from fellow Twin Peaks fan @Wow_Bob_Wow on October 15, 2025. A post made two days earlier on October 13 didn’t show the stone. Word is it may be removed.

By October 30, 2025, the stone carving above David’s headstone was removed. Fellow Bookhouse Boy @JazzBeitler visited David’s grave with his father on October 30 and posed for this photo.

“I had an impromptu David Lynch day with my Father while he is in L.A. visiting me. I brought a new friend to visit David’s resting place at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, stopped by David’s home and the birthplace of some much of his incredible art, and finally popped by Bob’s Big Boy for dinner
Beautiful day. Bright blue skies. Still.”

Here is an alternate look at his grave facing the Garden of Legends with the now removed stone carving.

The headstone has David’s birth year – 1946 – and the year he passed, 20205 The phrase “Night Blooming Jasmine” is written in italicized font. In a January 16, 2016 interview with AnOther Magazine, Lynch provided more insight about the epitaph:

Hans Ulrich Obrist: I remember last time we looked at the painting studio and then the sound studio. You said you actually never have to leave the house! But you also talked about the speed of rooms, their speed and slowness, and I was wondering: Do other places, cities, also have speed?

DL: Oh, yes, yes, yes. When you fly into LA at night, it’s all lit up, miles and miles of lights – so beautiful. It’s a very fast image. But within it there are these places that talk about memory. You know, on a summer’s night, maybe more like a spring night, you could drive to certain places and if you smell that night-blooming jasmine, you can almost see Clark Gable or Gloria Swanson. The golden age of Hollywood is still living in some moods here, in the DNA of the city. There are different textures within LA, and I am sure that’s the way it is with every city. Graffiti is the worst thing to happen to cities. It absolutely is the worst kind of disease that comes to a city. It just completely destroys the mood of a building, of what it could hold. It’s just a horror, an absolute horror.

Several fans remarked they had never seen the headstone without mementos so I took the liberty of removing items via Photoshop. I changed the color of the red rose to blue as a nod to his Twin Peaks character Gordon Cole.

I spotted two roses at the grave placed in the giant stone carving – one red and one blue. The blue one was left by fellow fan @Lunarisekingdom two days before my visit.

GRAVES NEARBY DAVID LYNCH’S GRAVE

There are five headstones just above Lynch’s grave. I was curious who was buried in those plots especially since many fans will be stopping by to pay respects to David.

According to FindAGrave.com, Samuel Edward Taylor was the son of Henry Taylor (1802-1857, South Salem Cemetery, Ross, Ohio) and Henry’s second wife, Eleanor “Ellen” Irwin Taylor (1815-1891). Samuel was a grocer, then a salesman and later, a traveling salesman. He married his first wife, Carrie Susan Duncan (1861-1924) in 1886, and they raised one son was John Duncan Taylor (1887-1984). A few years after Carrie’s death, Samuel moved to Los Angeles, California where he met and married Lola Smith.

Services for his wife were held on March 12, 1935 at the chapel of Ivy H. Overholtzer located at 1719 South Flower Street. One assumes she was buried on the same day at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Samuel’s death was announced in The Los Angeles Times on October 16, 1938.

The headstone directly above David’s grave is “Loving Grandmother” Ella M. Eberhart who was born on Dec. 26, 1856 and died on Sept. 11, 1935 at age of 75. Her services were held on Saturday, September 14 at 2:30 p.m. at Garrett Brothers’ Mortuary located at 921 Venice Boulevard. I’ve found no other information about Ms. Eberhart but one assumes she had children based on the inscription.

I found an obituary in The Los Angeles Times on January 30, 1949 for Justin S. Jones, a “Southern Gentleman.”

“Funeral arrangements were being completed yesterday for Justin Smith Jones, 84, owner-operator of the Pet Cemetery at Calabasas. Mr. Jones died Friday night [January 28] in his residence, a quarter mile from Calabasas. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Mattie Jones; two sons, Henry and Eugene Jones of Hollywood, and two grandchildren. Edwards Bros. Colonial Mortuary is in charge.”

The last headstone nearby David’s grave is Dr. James “Jimmie” Jones, D.V.M. (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) who was “From ‘Dixie.'” I also found his obituary in The Los Angeles Times on March 7, 1935.

“Funeral services for Dr. James B Jones, 35 years of age, of 8474 Melrose avenue, veterinarian who ministered to the pets of Hollywood, will be conducted at Edwards Brothers Mortuary at 1 p.m. today under auspices of Covenant Masonic Lodge. Dr. Jones died at California Hospital from a throat ailment last Tuesday (March 5). With his brother, Dr. Eugene C. Jones, Dr. James Jones came West from Raleigh, N. C., went through veterinary college at Washington State, both belonging to the Kappa Sigma Fraternity and launching professional careers in near-by establishments in 1925. Besides the brother, he leaves another brother, Rollins, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Jones of Beverly Hills.”

These five individuals had no idea about David Lynch since they all passed years before he directed his first film. But now you know about them.

WHAT HAPPENS TO ITEMS LEFT AT DAVID LYNCH’S GRAVE?

A popular question asked is, “What happens to items left at David Lynch’s grave?” His daughter Jennifer Lynch answered the question on October 22, 2025 in the private Facebook group “Twin Peaks.”

“The cemetery clears things every few weeks. They have to. Please know that he is appreciative of everything you have left. No one thinks it’s garbage. They just have to clear the stones and spaces regularly. Please photograph your gift with the headstone so you will always be able to see them together.”

I’ll close by saying thank you David Lynch. I look at the world differently because of you.