Coachella Valley Public Cemetery
Cemetery in Riverside County, California
33°40′11″N 116°13′02″W / 33.6697455°N 116.2172288°W / 33.6697455; -116.2172288[1]
The Coachella Valley Public Cemetery is a cemetery in the Coachella Valley of Southern California.[3] Located in the city of Coachella, it is near the east valley cities of Indio and La Quinta.
Notable interments
Among those buried here are:
- Frank Bogert (1910–2009), Westerns movie star and Mayor of Palm Springs
- Frank Capra (1897–1991), film director
- Jacqueline Cochran (1906–1980), aviator
- Al McCandless (1927–2017), politician
- Benjamin Montoya (1935–2015), U.S. Navy rear admiral
- Alan O'Day (1940–2013), singer-songwriter
- Tommy Shepard (1923–1993), trombonist
- John Van Druten (1901–1957), playwright and theatre director
- Stan Wrightsman (1910–1975), jazz pianist
See also
- Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City)
- Desert Memorial Park
- List of cemeteries in California
- List of cemeteries in Riverside County, California
References
- ^ USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
- ^ California Association of Public Cemeteries, Members
- ^ Brooks, Patricia; Brooks, Jonathan (2006). "Chapter 8: East L.A. and the Desert". Laid to Rest in California: a guide to the cemeteries and grave sites of the rich and famous. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press. pp. 247–248. ISBN 978-0762741014. OCLC 70284362.
External links
- Coachella Valley Public Cemetery at Find a Grave
- Coachella Valley Cemetery USGS Indio Quad, California, Topographic Map at TopoZone
