El Camino Memorial Park is a cemetery in the Sorrento Valley neighborhood of San Diego, California. Founded in 1960,Mallios, Seth and Caterino, David M. Cemeteries of San Diego. Arcadia Publishing. 2007. p.96 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. Find a Grave.com "El Camino Memorial Park" San Diego Weekly Reader - "Underground With the Celebrity Dead" by Jay Allen Sanford, Oct. 27, 2005
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 (until 2012) 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.Ed Koch, Desert Inn, Stardust chief helped integrate Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas Sun, September 1, 2008Steve Schmidt, A. Roen, La Costa co-owner, dies at 87, U-T San Diego, August 31, 2008 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.Myrna Oliver, Paul Trousdale, Developer and Innovator, Dies, Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1990 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