Fairfax Memorial Park
Fairfax Memorial Park is a cemetery in Fairfax, Virginia. The cemetery was founded in 1957 by Cornelius H. Doherty, Sr.
The cemetery was opened in 1969 to provide space for Catholics in the area who required a Catholic burial, but it is now a secular cemetery. The cemetery, along with its associated funeral home, is now owned by Houston-based conglomerate,
Carriage Services.
Notable burials
- Robert Bork, Solicitor General of the United States and Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- Clint Hill, United States Secret Service, famously was the first responding agent during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy where he leaped onto the back of the presidential limousine to shield First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy with his body.
- Antonin Scalia : United States Supreme Court Associate Justice
- William L. Scott, U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator
- Paul Weyrich, American conservative activist, co-founder of The Heritage Foundation, the Free Congress Foundation, and the American Legislative Exchange Council