Desert Memorial Park Cemetery in Cathedral City, California
Also known as Desert Memorial Park
About Desert Memorial Park Cemetery
Desert Memorial Park Cemetery is a memorial park near Cathedral City, Riverside County, California. It lies about 3.0 mi southwest of Cathedral City. Wikidata records 59 notable people buried here, including Frank Sinatra, William Powell and Sonny Bono. The nearest other listed cemetery is Forest Lawn Memorial Park, about 0.2 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is New Journey Cremation and Funeral Services in Thousand Palms, about 2.2 mi away. It is one of 136 cemeteries we list in Riverside County, and 6 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 7 of the 136 listings in Riverside County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Cathedral City. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Desert Memorial Park Cemetery
Among them: 28 actors, 12 musicians, 9 writers, 2 baseball players, 2 business leaders, 2 US representatives, 2 World War II veterans, 1 architect.
- Frank Sinatra1915-1998American singer and actor
- William Powell1892-1984American actor
- Sonny Bono1935-1998American entertainer, musician and politician
- Suzanne Somers1946-2023American actress
- Betty Hutton1921-2007American actress
- Busby Berkeley1895-1976American film director and musical choreographer
- Cameron Mitchell1918-1994American actor
- Brad Dexter1917-2002American actor
- Marjorie Rambeau1889-1970American actress
- Andrea Leeds1914-1984American film actress
- Frederick Loewe1901-1988Austrian-American composer
- Jimmy Van Heusen1913-1990American composer
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- Magda Gabor1915-1997Hungarian-American socialite and television personality
- Marian Marsh1913-2006Actress
- Bill Goodwin1910-1958American actor
- Ginny Simms1913-1994American singer and actress
- Monica Lewis1922-2015American actress
- Barbara Sinatra1927-2017American model, showgirl, and socialite; wife of Zeppo Marx and Frank Sinatra
- Diana Lewis1919-1997American film actress
- Chris Alcaide1922-2004American actor
- William Asher1921-2012American film and television producer, director, and screenwriter
- Eddy Howard1914-1963American vocalist, bandleader, and songwriter
- Jolie Gabor1896-1997Hungarian-American socialite, entrepreneur, memoirist; mother of the Gabor sisters
- Dorothy Arnold1917-1984American actress
- Josephine Hill1899-1989American actress
- Earle Hagen1919-2008American composer who created music for movies and television
- Jimmy Swinnerton1875-1974American cartoonist and painter
- Jennings Lang1915-1996American actor
- John J. Phillips1887-1983US Congressman
- Rebel Randall1922-2010American actress and radio personality
- Claude Harmon1916-1989American professional golfer
- Frank Scully1892-1964American author and columnist
- Norris Goff1906-1978Radio and film comedian
- Pete Reiser1919-1981American baseball player and coach
- Sid Tomack1907-1962American actor
- Dolly Sinatra1896-1977Mother of Frank Sinatra
- Melville Shyer1895-1968American film director
- Ralph Young1918-2008American singer
- Anthony Martin Sinatra1892-1969Father of Frank Sinatra
- Irving Green1916-2006Founder of Mercury Records
- Jilly Rizzo1917-1992(1917-1992) restaurateur, television personality
- Roy W. Hill1899-1986American businessman and philanthropist
- William David Powell1925-1968American screenwriter
- William F. Cody1916-1978American architect
- Alex Dreier1916-2000American reporter, commentator and actor
- M. C. Levee1891-1972American film producer
- Anton Julius Winblad II1886-1975American pipefitter, amateur photographer
- Eva Ariel Lattin1892-1939(1892-1939) wife of Anton Julius Winblad II
- Louis Galen1925-2007American philanthropist
- Marguerite Van Rensselaer Schuyler1891-19722nd wife of Anton Julius Winblad II
- Phil Weintraub1907-1987American baseball player
- Roman Ryterband1914-1979Polish composer
- Bill Miller1904-2002Russian-born American impresario
- Lorayne Brox1900-1993American musician
- Roy Fey1915-2000American real estate developer
- Velma Wayne Dawson1912-2007American puppeteer
- Baba Majos de Nagyzsenye1914-2007Wife of Patrick Macnee
- Cynthia Wells1952-1997American musician
- Myron Zobel1897-1967American writer and film producer
People whose Wikidata entry gives Desert Memorial Park Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
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What Desert Memorial Park Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- Forest Lawn Memorial ParkCathedral City, CAMemorial park0.2 mi
- Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City)69-855 East Ramon Road, Cathedral City, CACemetery0.2 mi
- Jane Augustine Patencio CemeteryPalm Springs, CACemetery5.3 mi
- Welwood Murray CemeteryPalm Springs, CACemetery6.4 mi
- Hope Lutheran Church ColumbariumPalm Desert, CALutheran cemetery8.2 mi
- Saint Margaret's Episcopal Church ColumbariumPalm Desert, CAEpiscopal cemetery8.4 mi
Funeral homes near Desert Memorial Park Cemetery
- New Journey Cremation and Funeral Services2.2 miFuneral home · Thousand Palms · (760) 565-6258
- Casillas Funeral Home2.7 miFuneral home · Cathedral City · (760) 202-7420
- Smart Cremation2.7 miCremation provider · Cathedral City · (844) 305-4531
- Fitzhenry-wiefels Palm Desert Mortuary4.0 miMortuary · Palm Desert · (760) 568-9481
- All California Cremation4.0 miCremation provider · Palm Desert · (800) 575-0551
- Smart Cremation4.1 miCremation provider · Rancho Mirage · (800) 700-2203
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
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