Coachella Valley Public Cemetery
The Coachella Valley Public Cemetery is a cemetery in the Coachella Valley of Southern California. Located in Unincorporated Riverside County, it is near the east valley cities of Coachella, 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.