OAKLAND — Lisa Casazza knew she wanted to be a floral designer at the age of 10 and began working in a floral shop as a teenager. After getting a degree in interior design and a long hiatus from ...

There are 177,000 people at historic Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, many of them famous and all of them dead. Being famous did not prevent them from eventually becoming customers at the ...

With three weeks into spring the Bay Area has had many days of rain and sun giving flowers the opportunity to bloom and show off their many hues of color. A good example of that color is on display at ...

Police believe a group of six juveniles knocked over 10 headstones at Mountain View Cemetery this week, the latest in a string of vandalism at the Longmont graveyard over the past few years. They ...

OAKLAND — The New Orleans-style St. Gabriel’s Celestial Brass Band will lead a processional march to the gravesides of the rich and famous on Millionaires’ Row as Mountain View Cemetery celebrates its ...

People walk dogs. Mothers push baby buggies. Bikers race down steep hills. On April 4, the Easter Bunny will pose for photos and hand out egg-filled treats to children. This is not like any cemetery I ...

Dear Readers: Here’s a Johnnie St. Vrain column that published originally in 2011. Since it published, about 1,500 additional people have been buried in Mountain View Cemetery. Be sure to take time ...

Spend a day at the cemetery? Yes, if it's Oakland's Mountain View Cemetery at the north end of Piedmont Avenue, where it seems as if the who's who of California history is buried. In this 220-acre ...

Jan. 26—Presumably there is more to the name on a headstone at Mountain View Cemetery in Centralia that reads "Edith M. Capp—" but the final letters are obscured by ivy. We know a few things. She was ...