Graham said his relationship with Alice Ghostley began in 1978 after attempting to send her a fan letter. He was buried in the cemetery after his death in 1933. The sisters' father, Harry Ghostley, was a telegraph operator for the railroad in Siloam Springs in the early 1930s. In an interview earlier this year, Gladys told the Herald-Leader newspaper she had purchased a plot in Oak Hill Cemetery for $25 in the late 1970s so she could be near her parents' graves. Graham said that after Gladys died in June, a search began to find a family plot near some of the places the sisters lived as children. Graham received all of Alice's performance memorabilia after her death. "I want to invite the community to come and share in the life of Alice and Gladys," said John Graham, a San Francisco resident and longtime fan and friend of the entertainer. The site is in section 29 of the cemetery. A graveside service with Father Salvador Marquez-Muno will begin at 11 a.m. The remaining ashes and the cremains of her sister, Gladys Ghostley, who died June 21, will be buried together Thursday beside their parents in Oak Hill Cemetery. She was cremated, and a portion of her ashes were spread beneath an orange tree near her home, along with the ashes of her husband, Felice Orlandi, who died in 2003.
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21, 2007, at her home in Studio City, Calif. SILOAM SPRINGS A Hollywood star of film, stage and television will be laid to rest in Oak Hill Cemetery here this week - almost two years after her death.Īlice Ghostley, a former resident of Siloam Springs who appeared in the films "Grease" and "To Kill a Mockingbird" and played Aunt Esmerelda on television's "Bewitched," died Sept.