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El Camino Memorial Park

El Camino Memorial Park cemetery is located at 5600 Carroll Canyon Road in the Sorrento Valley neighborhood of San Diego. Founded in 1960,[1] El Camino is a 220-acre (0.89 km2) memorial park and is the final resting site for Jonas Salk (who discovered the polio vaccine and founded the renowned Salk Institute), as well as several members of the well-known Kroc family (humanitarians, philanthropist, former owners of San Diego Padres baseball team, as well as Ray Kroc's position as C.E.O of McDonald's fast food chain). There are many other prominent citizens from the greater San Diego and Los Angeles area as well.[2][3]

El Camino Memorial Park

1960

Sorrento Valley, California

United States

Public

220-acre (0.89 km2)

(1914–1995), medical researcher, discoverer of the polio vaccine

Jonas Salk

(1929–2015), ice hockey player

Ray Ceresino

(1947–1989), Polish footballer (until 2012)

Kazimierz Deyna

(1915–1988), singer

Billy Daniels

(1917–2003), COO of Coors Brewing Company and grandson of the founder, personal advisor to president Ronald Reagan

Joseph Coors Sr.

(1896–1971), professional baseball player

Cedric Montgomery Durst

(1900–1970), songwriter, guitarist and Emmy nominated actor

Preston Foster

(1894–1966), actress (also known as Dorothy O'Kelly)

Dorothy Kelly

(1902–1984), founding partner of McDonald's, owner of San Diego Padres baseball team

Ray Kroc

(1928–2003), wife of Ray Kroc, humanitarian

Joan Kroc

(1908–1984), actress, sister of actress Laura La Plante

Violet La Plante

(1960–1992), (real name Stuart Shapiro), comic book publisher, founder of Revolutionary Comics

Todd Loren

(1906–1972), physicist and Nobel Prize winner

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

(1922–2010), investment banker, businessman, and lawyer

James Mulvaney

(1919–2000), scientist, member of the Manhattan Project

William Nierenberg

(1927–2013), singer and actress

Patti Page

(1887–1979) WWII Naval Admiral, the last military governor of Guam.

Charles Alan Pownall

(1921–2008, Managing Director of casinos and resorts in Las Vegas, Nevada and Carlsbad, California.[4][5]

Allard Roen

(1926–1996), commissioner of the National Football League from 1960 to 1989

Pete Rozelle

(1904–1980), Emmy award-winning film and television actor

Milburn Stone

(1884–1969), author and journalist

Lee Shippey

(1915–1990), real estate developer.[6]

Paul Trousdale

(1928–2013), actress

Barbara Werle

Cemeteries of San Diego

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

32°53′35″N 117°11′15″W / 32.8931°N 117.1876°W / 32.8931; -117.1876