James Dean is buried in Park Cemetery outside of Fairmont, IN. Dean was twenty-four when he was killed in a car accident outside of Cholame, CA.
After his mother died of cancer at the age of nine, his father sent Dean to live with his aunt, Ortense, and her husband, Marcus Winslow. After graduating from Fairmount High School on May 16, 1949, Dean moved to California to live with his father.

