About Greenwood Cemetery
Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery near National City, San Diego County, California. It lies about 2.0 mi south of National City. The grounds sit at about 154 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 61 notable people buried here, including Victor Buono, James Moody and Rosa Smith Eigenmann. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 243023. The nearest other listed cemetery is Cypress View Mausoleum, about 0.4 mi to the southwest. The nearest mortuary we know of is Greenwood Memorial Park & Mortuary in San Diego, about 0.0 mi away. It is one of 71 cemeteries we list in San Diego County, and 16 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 2 of the 71 listings in San Diego County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, National City. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Greenwood Cemetery
Among them: 7 writers, 5 actors, 4 baseball players, 4 musicians, 3 business leaders, 3 US representatives, 2 artists, 2 World War I veterans.
- Victor Buono1938-1982American actor and comic
- James Moody1925-2010American jazz musician
- Rosa Smith Eigenmann1858-1947American ichthyologist
- Carl H. Eigenmann1863-1927German-American ichthyologist
- Ernestine Schumann-Heink1861-1936Austrian-American singer
- Agnes Vernon1895-1948Actress
- Charlotte Johnson Baker1855-1937American physician, suffragist and botanical collector
- William Kettner1864-1930American politician
- Bob Elliott1916-1966Baseball player
- Harold Bell Wright1872-1944American writer
- Walter Fuller1910-2003American singer
- George Burnham1868-1939American politician
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- John K. Wells1886-1949American director, producer, and writer
- Phil Swing1884-1963American politician
- Sol Price1916-2009Founder of FedMart and Price Club
- Ulysses S. Grant, Jr.1852-1929American businessman
- Frederick Ludwig Hoffman1865-1946German-American statistician
- Henry Timken1832-1909American inventor and businessman best known for his roller bearings
- Inga Ørner1876-1963American composer
- Mary Welch1922-1958American stage actress
- Orestes Hawley St. John1841-1921American geologist, paleontologist and scientific illustrator
- Bob Howard1944-2008Player of American football
- Charles Willard Diffin1884-1966American author
- Donal Hord1902-1966American artist
- J. C. Ewing1875-1965American football and baseball coach
- Warren Wiebe1953-1998American musician
- William Templeton Johnson1877-1957American architect
- Aileen Cleveland Higgins1882-1966American nurse and playwright
- Belle Benchley1882-1973American zoo director
- Blanche Lowe1897-1998Wife of John Wahl II
- Cecilia Anderson1855-1919Pioneering entomologist
- Earle Brucker, Sr.1901-1981American baseball player and coach
- Edward Alexander Millar1860-1934United States Army general
- H. Austin Adams1861-1931American author and priest
- Milt Smith1929-1997American baseball player
- Robert Forest Rose1868-1924(1868-1924) American reporter and trade adviser
- Steve Mesner1918-1981American baseball player
- Berton William Sibley1877-1944American soldier
- Charles E. Peterson1889-1959American football and basketball coach and college dean
- Helen Hayes Gleason1885-1973World War I Red Cross worker
- Hermann Karl William Kumm1874-1930German-American explorer
- Mary Harriet Porter1846-1929American missionary in China
- Moses A. Luce1842-1933American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
- Robert Redpath McLean1875-1941Naturalist
- Rufus O. Suter1904-1968American author, translator, and employee in the Library of Congress
- America Workman1878-1942(1878/1881-1942)
- Chaffee Grant1883-1940Grandson of U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant
- Clyde Carrie Upchurch1898-1970
- Fannie Grant1889-1924Granddaughter of U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant
- Fannie Josephine Chaffee1857-1909
- Frances Louise Taft1865-1950Sister of U.S. president William Howard Taft
- George A. Scott1907-1993American businessman
- Ida M. Green1903-1986American philanthropist
- Joseph W. Sefton Jr.1881-1966American banker and philanthropist
- Mary St. John1841-1921American paleontologist and specimen collector
- Mattie Rooney1878-1950American actress and dancer
- Miriam Grant1881-1940Granddaughter of U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant
- Orville Arthur Tunnell1886-1983American photographer
- Victor Clifton Alderson1862-1946American educator
- Vonda Butler1958-20201958-2020
- William R. Timken1866-1949US businessman & art collector
People whose Wikidata entry gives Greenwood 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.
Map
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What Greenwood 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
- Cypress View MausoleumNational City, CACemetery0.4 mi
- Beth Israel CemeteryNational City, CAJewish cemetery0.5 mi
- Mount Hope CemeteryNational City, CACemetery0.6 mi
- Home of Peace CemeteryNational City, CACemetery0.7 mi
- Holy Cross CemeteryNational City, CACemetery0.8 mi
- la Vista CemeteryChula Vista, CACemetery3.4 mi
- First United Methodist Church ColumbariumSan Diego, CAMethodist cemetery4.8 mi
- Glen Abbey Memorial ParkBonita, CAMemorial park5.0 mi
- Calvary CemeterySan Diego, CACemetery5.2 mi
- El Campo SantoSan Diego, CACatholic cemetery6.1 mi
Funeral homes near Greenwood Cemetery
- Greenwood Memorial Park & Mortuary0.0 miMortuary · San Diego · (619) 450-1479
- Cypress View Mausoleum, Mortuary and Crematory0.3 miCremation provider · San Diego · (619) 264-3168
- San Diego Memorial Chapel0.3 miFuneral chapel · San Diego
- Funeraria del Angel San Diego0.4 miFuneral home · San Diego · (619) 241-4704
- Anderson-ragsdale Mortuary1.5 miMortuary · San Diego · (619) 263-3141
- National City-Chula Vista Mortuary & Cremation Service1.9 miCremation provider · National City · (619) 477-4139
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