El Camino Memorial Park

El Camino Memorial Park is a cemetery in the Sorrento Valley neighborhood of San Diego, California. Founded in 1960, it is a property. The cemetery is noted for being the final resting site for Jonas Salk as well as several members of the well-known Kroc family.

Notable interments

• Jonas Salk (1914–1995), medical researcher, discoverer of the polio vaccine
• Ray Ceresino (1929–2015), ice hockey player
• Kazimierz Deyna (1947–1989), Polish footballer <small>(until 2012)</small>
• Billy Daniels (1915–1988), singer
• Joseph Coors Sr. (1917–2003), COO of Coors Brewing Company and grandson of the founder, personal advisor to president Ronald Reagan
• Cedric Montgomery Durst (1896–1971), professional baseball player
• Preston Foster (1900–1970), songwriter, guitarist and Emmy nominated actor
• Dorothy Kelly (1894–1966), actress (also known as Dorothy O'Kelly)
• Ray Kroc (1902–1984), founding partner of McDonald's, owner of San Diego Padres baseball team
• Joan Kroc (1928–2003), wife of Ray Kroc, humanitarian
• Violet La Plante (1908–1984), actress, sister of actress Laura La Plante
• Todd Loren (1960–1992), (real name Stuart Shapiro), comic book publisher, founder of Revolutionary Comics
• Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906–1972), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• James Mulvaney (1922–2010), investment banker, businessman, and lawyer
• William Nierenberg (1919–2000), scientist, member of the Manhattan Project
• Patti Page (1927–2013), singer and actress
• Charles Alan Pownall (1887–1979) WWII Naval Admiral, the last military governor of Guam.
• Allard Roen (1921–2008, Managing Director of casinos and resorts in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Carlsbad, California.
• Pete Rozelle (1926–1996), commissioner of the National Football League from 1960 to 1989
• Milburn Stone (1904–1980), Emmy award-winning film and television actor
• Lee Shippey (1884–1969), author and journalist
• Paul Trousdale (1915–1990), real estate developer.
• Barbara Werle (1928–2013), actress

See also

• Cemeteries of San Diego

References

External links

• El Camino Memorial Park official website
• Find a Grave.com "El Camino Memorial Park"
• San Diego Weekly Reader - "Underground With the Celebrity Dead" by Jay Allen Sanford, Oct. 27, 2005
• "San Diegans Are Going HOG WILD over El Camino's New Harley Davidson", Business Wire, March 14, 2007