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 (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.[2] [3]
Notable interments
- Jonas Salk (1914–1995), medical researcher, discoverer of the polio vaccine
- Kazimierz Deyna (1947–1989), Polish footballer
- 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)
- Jess Kirkpatrick (1897–1976), television character actor
- 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
- William Nierenberg (1919–2000), scientist, member of the Manhattan Project
- Pete Rozelle (1926–1996), commissioner of the National Football League from 1960-1989
- Milburn Stone (1904–1980), Emmy award-winning film and television actor
- Lee Shippey (1884–1969), author and journalist
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