Sunset View Cemetery in Kensington, California

Sunset View Cemetery is a cemetery near Kensington, Contra Costa County, California. The grounds sit at about 308 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 44 notable people buried here, including Otto Stern, Glenn Theodore Seaborg and Edwin McMillan. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 235820. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Joseph Cemetery, about 4.5 mi to the northwest. The nearest mortuary we know of is Sunset View Cemetery & Mortuary in El Cerrito, about 0.1 mi away. It is one of 21 cemeteries we list in Contra Costa County, and 7 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Contra Costa County dates to 1888. 4 of the 21 listings in Contra Costa County have a phone number or website on record.

This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Kensington. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.

Among them: 13 scientists, 5 writers, 4 artists, 4 Nobel laureates, 3 World War II veterans, 2 actors, 2 business leaders, 2 US representatives.

• Otto Stern1888-1969
  German-American physicist
• Glenn Theodore Seaborg1912-1999
  American chemist
• Edwin McMillan1907-1991
  American physicist
• Wendell Meredith Stanley1904-1971
  American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)
• Alfred L. Kroeber1876-1960
  American anthropologist
• Robert Culp1930-2010
  American actor
• Richard Taruskin1945-2022
  American musicologist, music critic and choral conductor
• Robert Lowie1883-1957
  American anthropologist
• Clement Calhoun Young1869-1947
  Governor of California
• Les Blank1935-2013
  American documentary filmmaker
• Paul Baloff1960-2002
  American heavy metal vocalist
• Tosio Katō1917-1999
  Japanese mathematician

People whose Wikidata entry gives Sunset View 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.

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.

• Saint Joseph Cemetery

  Rollingwood, CA
  Cemetery

  4.5 mi
• Rolling Hills Memorial Park

  Rollingwood, CA
  Memorial park

  4.7 mi
• Saint Mary Cemetery

  4529, Piedmont, CA
  Christian cemetery

  5.6 mi
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  Piedmont, CA
  Cemetery

  5.7 mi
• Gan Shalom Cemetery

  Berkeley, CA
  Cemetery

  5.8 mi
• Mountain View Cemetery

  5000 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA · est. 1863
  Cemetery

  5.8 mi
• Home of Peace Cemetery

  Oakland, CA
  Cemetery

  10.0 mi
• Queen of Heaven Cemetery

  Pleasant Hill, CA
  Cemetery

  10 mi
• Alamo - Lafayette Cemetery

  Lafayette, CA
  Cemetery

  10 mi
• Queen of Haven Cemetery

  Pleasant Hill, CA
  Cemetery

  10 mi

• Sunset View Cemetery & Mortuary

  Mortuary · El Cerrito · (510) 525-5111
  0.1 mi
• Harris Funeral Home Legacy Center

  Funeral home · Berkeley · (510) 525-1331
  2.0 mi
• Harris Funeral Home

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  2.0 mi
• WFG-Fuller Funerals

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  3.1 mi
• Stewart's Rose Manor Funeral

  Funeral home · Richmond · (510) 235-9143
  3.3 mi
• Wilson & Kratzer Mortuaries Civic Center Chapel

  Mortuary · Richmond · (510) 232-4383
  3.8 mi

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