Freaky, no?! According to sources, Ned was not buried in the family plot at the Catholic church his father funded (see St. Vincent de Paul in the West Adams District). Instead, his family erected a monument to his memory at Forest Lawn in Glendale.
Hmmmmmmmm, why wouldn't he be buried at the family plot? Certainly not because they ran out of room...they practically owned the whole church. So, I am willing to use the deductive reasoning skills that I picked up from watching Scooby-Doo and Get Smart. I think that because of his somewhat well know affair with his assistant (his dude assisitant) that his family felt it would be a little sacrilegious to bury him in their big fat Catholic church (it was the 20's after all...) since he was diddling around with his dude secretary. And perhaps because of all the publicity this high profile murder case was undoubtedly receiving, they may have felt that it would be a disservice to the church patrons to have people trudging across the graveyard to gawk (People with enough time on their hands to visit graves of random strangers are crazy anyway. They don't need anymore crazy coming and going from there than they already have). So banishing him to the Valley does make some sense; no one is going to drive that far out of their way and confront crazy Valley people to see a grave. But still, it's the Valley, he's still family, no need to punish him even more now that he's dead...
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