Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Mortuary & Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Memorial Park

Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Mortuary and Memorial Park, located at 1625 Gisler Avenue in Costa Mesa, California, has been a trusted pillar of the Orange County and Long Beach communities for over seven decades. With a stellar 4.8-star rating from 170 reviews, this full-service funeral home, cremation provider, and cemetery offers compassionate, professional care to families during their most difficult moments. The cemetery traces its roots to the 1950s when the Flanagan family founded Harbor Rest Memorial Park. The mortuary was built on the property in 1978, and its dedication ceremony featured California Governor Ronald Reagan as the keynote speaker—a testament to the facility’s significance. Mt. Olive Cemetery, established in the 1960s to serve the Jewish community, later merged with Harbor Rest to create the unified Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Memorial Park. Today, the entire operation is part of the Dignity Memorial® network, ensuring families receive the highest standards of service and a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

The mortuary offers a modern chapel seating up to 250 guests, equipped with a sound system, cordless microphones, and large flat-screen televisions for multimedia tributes. A versatile Tranquility Room accommodates intimate gatherings or large catered receptions. The on-site crematory ensures that loved ones never leave the care of the facility, providing peace of mind. The team is experienced in diverse faiths and cultures, arranging services at churches, temples, synagogues, or the cemetery itself. They specialize in personalized memorials that celebrate each life uniquely—whether through favorite songs, hobbies, or philosophies.

The 29-acre memorial park features manicured gardens, meandering walkways, and stately trees. Burial options include in-ground plots, mausoleum entombment, columbaria, cremation niches, scattering gardens, and private estates. The Court of Devotion features a garden mausoleum with imported marble and bronze statues. Notably, the park includes Orange County’s only consecrated Jewish garden and the Alcove of Abraham. A Veterans Memorial, expanded in 2008 with a brick pathway honoring deceased veterans, serves as the site of an annual Memorial Day observance with a military flyover. The cemetery also hosts a Kever Avot service between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and a multifaith Service of Remembrance in December. Available 24/7, the dedicated staff assists with immediate needs or pre-planning, offering virtual or in-home consultations. Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Mortuary and Memorial Park remains a place of dignity, respect, and enduring community care.