08/05/2026
We are launching a new monthly feature called "Remembering Their Story" and we are first featuring Marilyn Monroe, who passed away on August 5, 1962.
Behind the icon, those who knew her remembered someone warm, funny, and endlessly curious — an avid reader who kept a personal library of hundreds of books, always eager to learn something new.
Marilyn Monroe's funeral was a small, private service at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Attendance was limited to only 25 of her closest friends, family, and colleagues. She was laid to rest in her favorite emerald green sheath dress and a solid bronze casket lined with champagne satin. The service was arranged by her ex-husband Joe Dimaggio who continued to place roses on her grave at Crypt No. 24 in the cemetery's Corridor of Memories multiple times a week for decades, in an act of profound love for the actress and the legacy she left behind.
Her public image was carefully built, but her legacy reminds us that fame rarely tells the whole story of who someone really was to the people who loved them.
✨ Sometimes the truest way to remember someone is through the small, quiet details only the people closest to them ever knew.
