El Camino Memorial Park

El Camino Memorial Park cemetery is located at 5600 Carrol Canyon Road in San Diego, California, in Sorrento Valley near La Jolla. Founded in 1960"Cemeteries of San Diego" By Seth Mallios, David M. Caterino, San Diego County Gravestone Project, p. 96] , El Camino is a 220-acre memorial park and is the final resting site for Jonas Salk (founder of the polio vaccine and the renowned Salk Institute), as well as several members of the well-known Kroc family (humanitarians and founders of McDonald's fast food chain), as well as other prominent citizens from the greater San Diego and Los Angeles area. [http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?FScemeteryid=7946&page=cem Find a Grave.com "El Camino Memorial Park"] ] [http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2005/oct/27/underground-celebrity-dead/ San Diego Weekly Reader - "Underground With the Celebrity Dead" by Jay Allen Sanford, Oct. 27, 2005] ]

Notables

*Billy Daniels, singer known for "That Old Black Magic", film and television actor, TV's "The Billy Daniels Show"
*Joseph Coors Sr., COO of Coors Brewing Company and grandson of the founder, personal advisor to president Ronald Reagan
*Cedric Montgomery Durst, professional baseball player (played for the St. Louis Browns, the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox)
*Preston Foster, Songwriter, guitarist and Emmy nominated he-man actor in 1930's and 1940's films
*Dorothy Kelly, 1940s film actor (also known as Dorothy O'Kelly)
*Jess Kirkpatrick, Television character actor, played several roles on "Leave it to Beaver"
*Ray Kroc, founding partner of McDonald's food chain, owner of San Diego padres baseball team
*Joan Kroc, wife of Ray Kroc, humanitarian
*Violet La Plante, 1920s actor and sister of actor Laura La Plante
*Todd Loren, (real name Stuart Shapiro), murdered comic book publisher (possibly by serial killer Andrew Cunanan), founded Revolutionary Comics
*Maria Goeppert-Mayer, scientist. A physicist and Nobel Prize winner
*William Nierenberg, scientist, member of the Manhattan Project that developed the first Atomic Bomb
*Pete Alvin Rozelle, 29 years as Commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) and helped launch TV's successful "Monday Night Football"
*Milburn Stone, Emmy award-winning film and television actor, contract player for Universal Studios, played Dr. Galen Adams ("Doc") on the popular TV series "Gunsmoke"

References

External links

* [http://www.sorrentovalleychapel.com/index.php El Camino Memorial Park official website]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?FScemeteryid=7946&page=cem Find a Grave.com "El Camino Memorial Park"]
* [http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2005/oct/27/underground-celebrity-dead/ San Diego Weekly Reader - "Underground With the Celebrity Dead" by Jay Allen Sanford, Oct. 27, 2005]
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_March_14/ai_n27187255 "San Diegans Are Going HOG WILD over El Camino's New Harley Davidson", Business Wire, March 14, 2007]

ee also

*List of famous cemeteries
*Cemeteries of San Diego