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, medical researcher, discoverer of the polio vaccine
- Ray Ceresino, ice hockey player
- Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer
- Billy Daniels, singer
- 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
- Preston Foster, songwriter, guitarist and Emmy nominated actor
- Dorothy Kelly, actress
- Ray Kroc, founding partner of McDonald's, owner of San Diego Padres baseball team
- Joan Kroc, wife of Ray Kroc, humanitarian
- Violet La Plante, actress, sister of actress Laura La Plante
- Todd Loren,, comic book publisher, founder of Revolutionary Comics
- Maria Goeppert Mayer, physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- James Mulvaney, investment banker, businessman, and lawyer
- William Nierenberg, scientist, member of the Manhattan Project
- Patti Page, singer and actress
- Charles Alan Pownall WWII Naval Admiral, the last military governor of Guam.
- Allard Roen, commissioner of the National Football League from 1960 to 1989
- Milburn Stone, Emmy award-winning film and television actor
- Lee Shippey, author and journalist
- Paul Trousdale, real estate developer.
- Barbara Werle, actress