National cemetery
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego, California
Overview
About Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery is a national cemetery in San Diego, San Diego County, California. The grounds sit at about 397 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 177 notable people buried here, including Alex Groza, Sammy Lee and Holland Smith. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 242376. The nearest other listed cemetery is All Souls Episcopal Church Columbarium, about 3.0 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is San Diego Burial At Sea in San Diego, about 2.4 mi away. It is one of 71 cemeteries we list in San Diego County, and 11 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 2 of the 71 listings in San Diego County have a phone number or website on record.
Notable burials
Notable people buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
Among them: 53 World War II veterans, 35 World War I veterans, 21 Medal of Honor recipients, 16 actors, 14 Korean War veterans, 11 Spanish-American War veterans, 9 aviators and astronauts, 7 writers.
- Alex Groza1926-1995American basketball player
- Sammy Lee1920-2016American diver and physician
- Holland Smith1882-1967United States Marine Corps general
- Irving Bacon1893-1965American character actor
- Lloyd Fredendall1883-1963American General during World War II
- Michael A. Monsoor1981-2006United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- Sally Forrest1928-2015American actress
- Douglas Croft1926-1963American actor
- Morris Fisher1890-1968Sport shooter
- Robert Burnham, Jr.1931-1993American astronomer
- Dick Wessel1913-1965Actor
- Edmund H. Hansen1894-1962American sound engineer
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- John Thach1905-1981United States admiral
- Reed Howes1900-1964Model, actor
- Richard Garrick1878-1962American actor and director
- Gloria Winters1931-2010American actress
- Margaret Landis1890-1981American silent film actress
- Robert Kent1908-1955American actor
- Coy Watson Jr.1912-2009American child actor of the silent era
- Harry Spear1921-2006American actor
- Larry Clinton1909-1985American musician
- Laurence Stallings1894-1968American writer
- Alan Le May1899-1964American novelist
- Clifton Sprague1896-1955United States U.S. Navy Vice admiral
- Harry Schmidt1886-1968United States Marine Corps general
- Victor H. Krulak1913-2008United States Marine Corps general
- Ferdinand Schumann-Heink1893-1958American actor
- Willis Winter Bradley1884-1954American politician
- Bob Wilson1916-1999American politician
- Edward Hanson1889-1959U.S. Navy Vice admiral and Governor of American Samoa
- Frederick J. Horne1880-1959United States Navy Admiral and Navy Cross recipient
- Gatewood Lincoln1875-1957Naval officer and Governor of American Samoa
- Horacio Rivero, Jr.1910-2000First Puerto Rican and Hispanic four-star Admiral, and second Hispanic to become a full Admiral in the modern United States Navy
- Rafael Peralta1979-2004United States Marine recommended for the Medal of Honor for his actions in Iraq
- Don Doll1926-2010American football player and coach
- Donald S. Jones1928-2004United States Navy Vice Admiral
- Earl Winfield Spencer1888-1950United States naval offocer
- Edward A. Craig1896-1994Lieutenant General
- James L. Buie1920-1988American scientist and inventor
- Orin G. Murfin1876-1956United States Navy admiral
- Thomas Darden1900-1961United States admiral
- Verne D. Mudge1898-1957US Army major general
- Albert David1902-1945United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Charles F. B. Price1881-1954American Marine Corps general
- Charles Francis Bishop1888-1954United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- David Ford1925-1983American actor
- Donald C. Davis1921-1998American admiral
- Frederick Moosbrugger1900-1974Vice admiral in the United States Navy
- Goldie Rapp1892-1966American baseball player
- Herbert C. Jones1918-1941U.S. Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- James L. Day1925-1998U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
- Jean Engstrom1920-1997American actress
- Jimmie E. Howard1929-1993United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
- John Murphy Willems1901-1976American military officer and 3-day Olympic rider
- John T. Walker1893-1955Officer of the United States Marine Corps
- Joseph Eugene Carberry1887-1961American aviator
- Lee Baggett, Jr.1927-1999American admiral
- Lloyd M. Bucher1927-2004Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
- Lou Everett1924-1965American test pilot
- Ora Graves1896-1961United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Raven Grimassi1951-2019American occultist
- Raymond C. Smith1943-2022American Navy admiral
- Reuben H. Fleet1887-1975American pilot and businessman
- Robert Randall1918-1984American photographer
- Roy Carrington Kirtland1874-1941American Army officer
- Sidney Mashbir1891-1973Senior officer in the United States Army
- William L. Calhoun1884-1963United States Navy admiral
- Alfred Walton Hinds1874-195717th Naval Governor of Guam
- Alphonse DeCarre1892-1977American military personnel
- Bill Glynn1925-2013American baseball player
- Charles Jackson French1919-1956African American sailor posthumously awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal
- Donald A. Gary1901-1977United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Douglas C. McDougal1876-1964American Marine Corps general
- Frank C. Lang1918-2008American Major general
- Henry F. Schroeder1874-1959Recipient of the Medal of Honor during the Philippine-American War
- Herman H. Hanneken1893-1986U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
- Jack Harshman1927-2013Former professional baseball pitcher
- James David Ramage1916-2012American admiral
- Jesse Farley Dyer1877-1955United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
- Jesse J. Taylor1925-1965Posthumous Navy Cross Recipient
- John D. Butler1915-2010American politician
- John Mohardt1898-1961American football and baseball player
- John W. Roper1898-1963United States Navy admiral
- Joseph C. Fegan Jr.1920-1991American Marine Corps Lieutenant General
- Joseph Henry Pendleton1860-1942American Marine Corps general
- Martha Wright1923-2016American actress and singer
- Middleton Stuart Elliott1872-1952United States Navy physician, admiral and Medal of Honor recipient
- Paul D. Stroop1904-1995United States Navy Vice Admiral
- Peter S. Connor1932-1966United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
- Ralph Van Deman1865-1952United States Army general
- Robert Oscar Peterson1916-1994American businessman and philanthropist
- Robert P. Baldwin1917-1994American flying ace
- Ross Lindsey Iams1879-1952United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
- Sumner Spaulding1892-1952American architect
- Thomas J. Cushman1895-1972American Marine Corps general
- Thomas Leigh Gatch1891-1954Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
- U. S. Grant Sharp, Jr.1906-2001United States admiral
- Verne J. McCaul1903-1968American Marine Corps general
- Walter Browne Woodson1881-1948American Navy attorney and admiral
- Walter N. Vernou1878-1955American Navy admiral
- William E. Cleator, Sr.1927-1993American politician from California
- William R. Munroe1886-1966United States Navy admiral
- Albert W. Marshall1874-1958American Navy admiral
- Archie F. Howard1892-1964U.S. Marine Corps Major General
- Bruno Hochmuth1911-1967Commanding General of the 3rd Marine Division
- Caleb Bailey1898-1957United States Marine Corps general
- Donald M. Carpenter1894-1940US Navy officer
- Eugene P. Wilkinson1918-2013United States Vice Admiral
- George Davis Moore1867-1947United States Army general
- Harold Benjamin Fiske1871-1960US Brigadier General
- Harold C. Roberts1898-1945U.S. Marine Corps Colonel
- Harold I. Dean1884-1949American football and basketball coach
- James Irsley Poynter1916-1950Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
- James Thomas Smith1908-1990United States Navy Rear Admiral
- John E. Murphy1869-1941U.S. Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Kenneth J. Houghton1920-2006United States Marine Corps officer
- Leonard Knight1931-2014American artist
- Newt Hamill Hall1873-1939Marine Corps Brevet Medal recipient
- Osmond J. Ritland1909-1991United States Air Force major general
- Pelham D. Glassford1883-1959US Army general
- Robert Semple1887-1943United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Stanley E. Ridderhof1896-1962United States Marine Corps general
- Thomas S. Crow1934-20084th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
- Tom William Scott1902-1988Brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force who served in World War II and the Korean War
- William G. Joslyn1922-2011American Major General
- William N. Gillmore1903-1990American military officer
- William S. Cronan1883-1959United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Anton C. Heidrick1876-1955American photographer and postcard publisher
- Bennie M. Bunn1907-1943
- Charles Maxon Tozer1876-1949American military personnel
- Dale R. Buis1921-1959US Army officer
- Edward P. Pearson1837-1915American Brigadier General
- Edwin Bower Hesser1893-1962American photographer
- Elmer E. Hall1890-1958
- Frank E. Garretson1918-2006American Brigadier general
- Gilder D. Jackson Jr.1893-1966
- Hamilton McWhorter III1921-2008WWII Ace
- James J. Connell1939-1971Naval aviator
- Jay Frank1918-1965American racing driver
- John Alexander Carroll1925-2000American academic
- Leon C. Covell1877-1960
- Mary Beardslee Hinds1874-1952American First Lady of Guam
- Mason Carter (Soldier)1834-1909United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Merton A. Richal1894-1970United States Marine Corps officer
- Philip H. Torrey1884-1968U.S. Marine Corps Major General
- Raymond C. Morgan1897-1953American football and basketball coach
- Raymond D. Bowman1917-2001American music critic
- Richard Lees1891-1959American aviator and military officer
- Rob Roy McGregor1907-2000U.S. Navy officer
- Robert Hunter Clarksondied 1962Scottish brigadier general (??, 1962)
- Russell Alger Presley1888-1966
- Samuel S. Jack1905-1983US Marine Corps major general
- Sue Worthington Bradley1883-1970American First Lady of Guam
- Thomas Ridgway1861-1939U.S. Army colonel
- Vernon M. Guymon1898-1965United States Marine Corps general
- Walter R. Peck1896-1965American Air Force general
- Webb D. Sawyer1918-1995American Marine Corps Navy Cross recipient
- William Zuiderveld1888-1978United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Benton W. Decker1899-1983American rear admiral
- Cameron Briggs1904-2001U.S. Navy officer
- Carolyn Joyce Johnson1938-2026
- Carver Howland1850-19121876 graduate of the U. S. Military Academy
- Claude T. Anderson1921-2002United States Army Air Corps pilot
- Edith Eis1921-2017
- Geoffrey W. Crickmay1905-1971Canadian petroleum geologist
- American political scientist, professor, and dean
- George Francis Beardsley1907-2000American naval officer
- Harry Russell Balfe Jr.1891-196522 Sep 1891 - 2 Apr 1965
- Henry Benjamin Clark1874-1958United States Army officer
- Jackie Junior Smith1936-2001Veteran
- James E. Inskeep Jr.1926-2011American educator
- Josiah E. Green1908-1986United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel and naturalist
- Lorenzo Dow Macy1878-1956American Army tank operator and R.O.T.C. instructor
- Mack Williams1907-1965American actor
- Moses Tran Clegg1918-1991Animal husbandry researcher
- Philip Kieffer1886-1962American actor
- Thomas Wheeler Nagle1921-2007American political scientist and intelligence officer
People whose Wikidata entry gives Fort Rosecrans National 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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32.68873, -117.24582
Services & features
What Fort Rosecrans National 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.
Within 15 miles
Nearby cemeteries
- All Souls Episcopal Church ColumbariumSan Diego, CAEpiscopal cemetery3.0 mi
- El Campo SantoSan Diego, CACatholic cemetery5.3 mi
- Presidio Hill CemeterySan Diego, CACemetery5.7 mi
- Calvary CemeterySan Diego, CACemetery5.8 mi
- Home of Peace CemeteryNational City, CACemetery7.7 mi
- Mount Hope CemeteryNational City, CACemetery7.9 mi
- Beth Israel CemeteryNational City, CAJewish cemetery7.9 mi
- Cypress View MausoleumNational City, CACemetery8.0 mi
- First United Methodist Church ColumbariumSan Diego, CAMethodist cemetery8.1 mi
- Greenwood CemeteryNational City, CACemetery8.4 mi
Funeral providers
Funeral homes near Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
- San Diego Burial At Sea2.4 miFuneral home · San Diego · (619) 987-0663
- Beardsley-Mitchell Funeral Home3.8 miFuneral home · San Diego · (619) 986-0602
- Ashes on the Sea - Burial At Sea5.2 miFuneral home · San Diego · (858) 277-2799
- Cortez Cremations And Funeral Services5.4 miCremation provider · San Diego · (619) 240-7620
- San Diego Cremation Service6.2 miCremation provider · San Diego · (619) 923-1439
- Funeraria La Paz6.4 miFuneral home · San Diego · (619) 531-8800
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery located?
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery is at Cabrillo Memorial Drive, San Diego, CA 92106 in San Diego County. GPS coordinates: 32.68873, -117.24582.
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