List of cemeteries in Riverside County, California

This list of cemeteries in Riverside County, California includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea in Riverside County, California. It does not include pet cemeteries. Selected interments are given for notable people.

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Cemetery City Coordinates Notable interments References and Notes
(U.S. Geological Survey GNIS)
Coachella Valley Public Cemetery Coachella Valley 33°40′11″N 116°13′02″W / 33.6697°N 116.2172°W Frank Capra, Jacqueline Cochran, "Desert Steve" Ragsdale, Tommy Shepard, John Van Druten Coachella Valley Cemetery
Corona Sunnyslope Cemetery Corona 33°52′09″N 117°32′47″W / 33.8692°N 117.5464°W USC Trojans Athletic Director Jess Hill Corona Sunnyslope Cemetery
Sunny Shope Cemetery
Crestlawn Memorial Park Riverside 33°56′58″N 117°31′01″W / 33.9495°N 117.5170°W Medal of Honor recipient George Alan Ingalls.
MLB player Mike Darr; Actors Darwood Kaye and Roland Harrah III		 Crestlawn Memorial Park
Pierce Brothers: Crestlawn Memorial Park
Desert Lawn Funeral Home and Memorial Park Calimesa 33°57′24″N 117°01′13″W / 33.9567°N 117.0203°W Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens (Variant Name)
Desert Lawn Memorial Park at Find a Grave
Desert Memorial Park Cathedral City 33°49′04″N 116°26′34″W / 33.8178°N 116.4428°W See: Desert Memorial Park: Notable interments Palm Springs District Cemetery
Palm Springs Cemetery District
Elsinore Valley Cemetery
Includes the Jewish Home of Peace Cemetery, a.k.a. Mt. Sinai Memorial Park 		Lake Elsinore 33°41′40″N 117°20′29″W / 33.6945°N 117.3414°W Elsinore Valley Cemetery
Elsinore Valley Cemetery District
Evergreen Cemetery Riverside 33°58′48″N 117°23′13″W / 33.9799°N 117.3869°W Medal of Honor recipient Cornelius C. Smith.
See also: Evergreen Cemetery: Notable internments 		Evergreen Memorial Historic Cemetery
Forest Lawn Cemetery – Cathedral City Cathedral City 33°48′55″N 116°26′29″W / 33.8154°N 116.4413°W See: Forest Lawn Cemetery: Notable interments Forest Lawn: Cathedral City
Hope Lutheran Church Columbarium Palm Desert 33°42′56″N 116°22′21″W / 33.7155°N 116.3726°W Hope Lutheran Church Columbarium at Find a Grave
Hope Lutheran Church
Jane Augustine Patencio Cemetery Palm Springs 33°49′21″N 116°32′02″W / 33.8224°N 116.5340°W Artist Carl Eytel Jane Augustine Patencio Cemetery at Find a Grave
Laurel Cemetery Murrieta 33°32′32″N 117°13′19″W / 33.5422°N 117.2220°W Actor Douglas Fowley[1] Murrieta Valley Cemetery District
Laurel Cemetery
Louis Wolf Tombstone Temecula 33°27′51″N 117°07′12″W / 33.4642°N 117.1199°W Maintained by the Temecula Valley Historical Society.[2][3][4][5]
Maniker Family Cemetery Lake Elsinore 33°40′08″N 117°14′43″W / 33.6689°N 117.2452°W Managed by the Lake Elsinore Genealogical Society.[6][7]
Martinez Cemetery Thermal 33°33′37″N 116°09′09″W / 33.5603°N 116.1525°W Martinez Cemetery
McCanna Family Cemetery Perris 33°46′49″N 117°12′57″W / 33.7802°N 117.2158°W Abandoned/Lost.[8][9][10][11]
Moravian Cemetery Morongo Reservation 33°57′15″N 116°49′10″W / 33.9543°N 116.8194°W Moravian Cemetery at Find a Grave
Mountain View Cemetery Beaumont 33°56′37″N 116°58′48″W / 33.9436°N 116.9800°W Mount View Cemetery
Summit Cemetery District: Mountain View Cemetery
Olivewood Cemetery Riverside 33°57′10″N 117°22′44″W / 33.9528°N 117.3789°W Medal of Honor recipients Jesus S. Duran and Ysmael R. Villegas.[12]
Travis Alexander, Dorothy Burgess, Ben H. Lewis, Del Lord, Gloria Ramirez, Eric Show 		Olivewood Cemetery
Olivewood Memorial Park
Palo Verde Cemetery Blythe 33°37′51″N 114°36′03″W / 33.6309°N 114.6008°W Palo Verde Cemetery
Perris Valley Cemetery Perris 33°47′41″N 117°13′25″W / 33.7947°N 117.2236°W Perris Valley Cemetery
Radec Cemetery Radec 33°27′53″N 116°54′48″W / 33.4648°N 116.9134°W Maintained by the County of Riverside.[13][14]
Riverside National Cemetery Riverside 33°53′03″N 117°16′36″W / 33.8842°N 117.2767°W Medal of Honor recipients John H. Balch, Walter D. Ehlers, Lewis Millett, Mitchell Paige, and Ysmael R. Villegas.
See also: Riverside National Cemetery: Notable interments 		Riverside National Cemetery
Veterans Department: Riverside National Cemetery
Saint Boniface Indian School Cemetery Banning 33°56′18″N 116°53′19″W / 33.9384°N 116.8886°W Saint Boniface School
San Gorgonio Memorial Park Banning 33°56′46″N 116°52′43″W / 33.9461°N 116.8786°W Medal of Honor recipient William Powers Morris[15][16] Sunnyslope Cemetery
Summit Cemetery District: San Gorgonio Memorial Park
San Jacinto Valley Cemetery San Jacinto 33°45′34″N 116°57′39″W / 33.7595°N 116.9609°W Danish cartoonist Henning Dahl Mikkelsen San Jacinto Valley Cemetery
San Jacinto Valley Cemetery District
Sherman Indian School Cemetery Home Gardens 33°52′44″N 117°30′14″W / 33.8789°N 117.5040°W Sherman Indian Museum: Cemetery
Sherman Institute Cemetery at Find a Grave
St. Margaret's Episcopal Church Columbarium Palm Desert 33°42′12″N 116°23′52″W / 33.7034°N 116.3978°W St. Margaret's Episcopal Church
St. Margaret's Columbarium at Find a Grave
St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery Morongo Reservation 33°57′36″N 116°49′29″W / 33.9600°N 116.8248°W Indian culture scholar Katherine Siva Saubel Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Community: St. Mary's Mission
Saint Marys Catholic Cemetery at Find a Grave
Stewart Sunnyslope Cemetery Beaumont 33°55′10″N 116°57′54″W / 33.9195°N 116.9650°W Sunnyslope Cemetery
Summit Cemetery District: Stewart Sunnyslope Cemetery
Sunnylands Rancho Mirage 33°46′38″N 116°24′39″W / 33.7771°N 116.4107°W Walter and Leonore Annenberg Sunnylands
Temecula Massacre Cemetery Temecula 33°28′54″N 117°05′27″W / 33.4817°N 117.0908°W An historical cemetery, walled but not maintained.[17]
Temecula Public Cemetery Temecula 33°29′26″N 117°08′30″W / 33.4906°N 117.1417°W History of the Temecula Public Cemetery District
Temecula Cemetery at Find a Grave
Toro Cemetery Thermal 33°35′18″N 116°13′50″W / 33.5884°N 116.2306°W Toro Cemetery
Welwood Murray Cemetery Palm Springs 33°49′52″N 116°33′10″W / 33.8310°N 116.5527°W J. Smeaton Chase, Charles Farrell, Albert Frey, Hugo Montenegro, Jackie Saunders, Virginia Valli, E. Stewart Williams Palm Springs Cemetery District
Welwood Murray Cemetery at Find a Grave
Wildomar Cemetery Wildomar 33°36′20″N 117°16′33″W / 33.6056°N 117.2759°W Wildomar Cemetery

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Douglas Fowley at Find a Grave
  2. ↑ "Restoration of the Wolf Tomb". Restoration & Preservation Projects. Temecula Valley Historical Society. 2010.
  3. ↑ Herrmann, Babette (December 31, 2004). "Local historian spearheads restoration of Wolf's tomb". Fallbrook-Bonsall Village News 8 (53).
  4. ↑ Ammenheuser, Maura (January 1, 2011). "A Look Back: 19th century businessman dreamed of town". The Press-Enterprise.
  5. ↑ Hudson, Tom (1981). A Thousand Years in Temecula Valley. Temecula, CA: Old Town Temecula Museum. p. 86. ISBN 978-0931700064. OCLC 8262626.
  6. ↑ Lake Elsinore Genealogical Society: Cemetery Links
  7. ↑ Maniker Family at Find a Grave
  8. ↑ Thorne, Will (September 27, 1970). "Grain growing on this hallowed ground?". The Press-Enterprise.
  9. ↑ "There's a Cemetery There ... Somewhere". San Jose News. Associated Press. October 6, 1970.
  10. ↑ Max, Nathan (January 16, 2005). "Man says lot sits on sacred ground". The Press-Enterprise.
  11. ↑ McCanna Cemetery at Find a Grave
  12. ↑ Original post-war burial location for Villegas; he was reburied at Riverside National Cemetery as the first burial when the cemetery opened in 1978.
  13. ↑ Hunneman, John (July 13, 2001). "Nothing backward about Radec". San Diego Union Tribune.
  14. ↑ Note: Cemetery is maintained by the Riverside County Coroner and Public Administrator. Also see: Interment.net: Radec and Radec Cemetery at Find a Grave
  15. ↑ "William Powers Morris". MilitaryTimes Hall of Valor. Gannett Government Media. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
  16. ↑ William Powers Morris at Find a Grave
  17. ↑ Kevin Hallaran, Allene Archibald, Lowell J. Bean, Sylvia B. Vane (1991). The Indian Cemetery at Old Temecula. OCLC 44431925.

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