Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City)

Mausoleum in California, near Palm Springs

Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City), renamed from Palm Springs Mortuary & Mausoleum in 2005, is a mausoleum in Cathedral City, California near Palm Springs.^[1] It is operated by Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries.

Notable interments

Among those interred here are:

• Elisabeth Brooks, also known as Elisabeth Brooks Luytes (1951–1997), actress
• Shirley Burkovich (1933–2022), baseball player
• John Conte (1915–2006), actor, television station owner
• Frantisek Daniel (1926–1996), writer, producer, director
• Mack David (1912–1993), composer
• Victoria "Vicki" Draves (1924–2010), Olympic athlete
• Alice Faye (1915–1998), singer and actress
• Jason David Frank (1973–2022), actor
• L. Wolfe Gilbert (1886–1970), composer
• Phil Harris (1904–1995), singer, bandleader, and actor
• Billy Herrington (1969–2018), model, pornographic film actor
• Rock Hudson (1925–1985), actor (cenotaph, ashes scattered at sea)
• Dorothy Kamenshek (1925–2010), baseball player
• Francis Lederer (1899–2000), actor
• Gavin MacLeod (1931–2021), actor
• Guy Madison (1922–1996), actor
• George Montgomery (1916–2000), actor
• George Nader (1921–2002), actor (cenotaph is marked here, but his ashes were scattered at sea)
• Papa John Phillips (1935–2001), singer, songwriter, composer
• Michael Rizzitello (1927–2005), mobster
• Harold Robbins (1916–1997), novelist
• Irv Robbins (1917–2008), co-founder of Baskin-Robbins
• Charles 'Buddy' Rogers (1904–1999), actor, musician, humanitarian, third husband of Mary Pickford
• Hank Sanicola (c. 1914–1974), pianist, music publisher, manager and businessman, close friend of Frank Sinatra
• Dinah Shore (1916–1994), singer, actress and talk show host
• Jerry Vale (1930–2014), singer
• Ken Venturi (1931–2013), professional golfer and golf broadcaster, close friend of Frank Sinatra
• Nancy Wilson (1937–2018), singer
• Donald Woods (1906–1998), Canadian actor
• Jane Wyman (1917–2007), actress

Barbara Ann Walton (1947-2023)

See also

• Coachella Valley Public Cemetery – in nearby Indio, California
• Desert Memorial Park – across the street from Forest Lawn
• List of cemeteries in California
• List of cemeteries in Riverside County, California

References

1. 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. 245–6. ISBN 978-0762741014. OCLC 70284362.