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, El Camino is a memorial park and is the final resting site for Jonas Salk, as well as several members of the well-known Kroc family. There are many other prominent citizens from the greater San Diego and Los Angeles area as well.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
- William Nierenberg, scientist, member of the Manhattan Project
- Patti Page, singer and actress
- Allard Roen, commissioner of the National Football League from 1960-1989
- Milburn Stone, Emmy award-winning film and television actor
- Lee Shippey, author and journalist
- Paul Trousdale, real estate developer.
- Barbara Werle, actress
