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Submitted: 2/22/15 • Approved: 2/22/15 • Last Updated: 3/25/18 • R56122-G0-S3
Nick Beef is a non-existant person. Rose Hill Cemetery will not disclose the location of Lee Harvey Oswald; prompting a comedian who uses Nick Beef as a stage name to buy the plot next to Oswald's and have the gravestone engraved with the name Nick Beef. He told his fans that since they wouldn't be able to locate Oswald through cemetery information, they should ask where to find Nick Beef, ultimately finding Oswald. The cemetery soon caught on and now will not divulge information on the whereabouts of Lee Harvey Oswald or one fictitious Mr. Nick Beef.
The cemetery also claims that since there is not actually anyone in the grave, they don't have records for Nick Beef, therefore they will tell people they don't have a Nick Beef buried at Shannon Rose Hill.
Plot: Fairlawn 17. About 30 ft. to the right of a big tree across from a masoleum marked SHANNON
Photo Courtesy of David M Habben
Contributed on 2/22/15
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Record #: 56122