List of cemeteries in Riverside County, California explained

This list of cemeteries in Riverside County, California includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea in Riverside County, California. It does not include pet cemeteries. Selected interments are given for notable people.

Cemetery	City		Notable interments	References and Notes (U.S. Geological Survey GNIS)
Bergman Family Cemetery		33.4483°N -116.8913°W
		33.5393°N -116.7453°W
		33.6689°N -116.2183°W
	Corona	33.8692°N -117.5464°W		Corona Sunnyslope Cemetery
Crestlawn Memorial Park		33.9527°N -117.5197°W	Medal of Honor recipient George Alan Ingalls. MLB player Mike Darr; Actors Darwood Kaye and Roland Harrah III	Pierce Brothers: Crestlawn Memorial Park
Desert Lawn Funeral Home and Memorial Park		33.9567°N -117.0211°W
		33.8183°N -116.4417°W		Palm Springs Cemetery District
Elsinore Valley Cemetery Includes the Jewish Home of Peace Cemetery, a.k.a. Mt. Sinai Memorial Park	Lake Elsinore	33.6941°N -117.3428°W		Elsinore Valley Cemetery District
		33.9799°N -117.3869°W		Evergreen Memorial Historic Cemetery
		33.8154°N -116.4413°W		Forest Lawn: Cathedral City
Hope Lutheran Church Columbarium		33.7155°N -116.3726°W		Hope Lutheran Church
		33.8222°N -116.5341°W		Palm Springs
	Murrieta	33.5422°N -117.222°W	Actor Douglas Fowley[1]	Murrieta Valley Cemetery District
Louis Wolf Tombstone		33.464°N -117.12°W		Maintained by the Temecula Valley Historical Society.[2] [3] [4] [5]
Manker Family Cemetery		33.6689°N -117.2452°W		Managed by the Lake Elsinore Genealogical Society.[6]
		33.5603°N -116.1525°W
McCanna Family Cemetery		33.7802°N -117.2158°W		Abandoned/Lost.[7] [8] [9]
	Morongo Reservation	33.9541°N -116.8199°W		Banning Library District
	Beaumont	33.9438°N -116.9809°W		Summit Cemetery District: Mountain View Cemetery
		33.9533°N -117.3803°W		Olivewood Memorial Park
	Blythe	33.6308°N -114.6007°W
	Perris	33.7945°N -117.2256°W
Radec Cemetery		33.4649°N -116.9134°W		Maintained by the County of Riverside.[11] [12]
		33.8846°N -117.276°W		Veterans Department: Riverside National Cemetery
	Joshua Tree National Park	33.9836°N -116.1499°W
	Banning	33.9393°N -116.8888°W
	Morongo Indian Reservation	33.9612°N -116.8244°W		Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Community: St. Mary's Mission Banning Library District
	Banning	33.9494°N -116.8822°W	Medal of Honor recipient William Powers Morris[13] [14]	Summit Cemetery District: San Gorgonio Memorial Park
	San Jacinto	33.7603°N -116.9613°W		San Jacinto Valley Cemetery District
		33.8789°N -117.504°W		Sherman Indian Museum: Cemetery
		33.7032°N -116.398°W		http://www.stmargarets.org/ St. Margaret's Episcopal Church] Episcopal Diocese of San Diego
	Beaumont	33.9195°N -116.965°W		Summit Cemetery District: Stewart Sunnyslope Cemetery
		33.7771°N -116.4107°W		Sunnylands
	Temecula	33.4816°N -117.0907°W		An historical cemetery, walled but not maintained.[15]
	Temecula	33.4916°N -117.1415°W		History of the Temecula Public Cemetery District The Press-Enterprise
	Thermal	33.5584°N -116.2306°W
	Palm Springs	33.8306°N -116.5527°W	J. Smeaton Chase, Charles Farrell, Albert Frey, Hugo Montenegro, Jackie Saunders, Virginia Valli, E. Stewart Williams	Palm Springs Cemetery District Desert Sun
	Wildomar	33.6061°N -117.2755°W

See also

• List of cemeteries in California
• List of cemeteries in San Bernardino County, California

Further reading

• Book: Brooks. Patricia. Laid to Rest in California: a guide to the cemeteries and grave sites of the rich and famous . Chapter 8: East L.A. and the Desert . 2006. Globe Pequot Press. Guilford, CT. 978-0762741014. Brooks . Jonathan . 70284362.

External links

• Riverside County cemeteries at Find a Grave

Notes and References

1. http://www.nndb.com/people/719/000091446/ NNDB
2. Web site: Restoration of the Wolf Tomb. Restoration & Preservation Projects. Temecula Valley Historical Society. 2010.
3. Herrmann. Babette. Local historian spearheads restoration of Wolf's tomb. Fallbrook-Bonsall Village News. December 31, 2004. 8. 53.
4. Ammenheuser. Maura. A Look Back: 19th century businessman dreamed of town. The Press-Enterprise. January 1, 2011.
5. Book: Hudson, Tom . A Thousand Years in Temecula Valley. 1981 . Old Town Temecula Museum . Temecula, CA . 86 . 8262626 . 978-0931700064 . 81053017 -->.
6. Web site: Lake Elsinore Genealogical Society: Cemetery Links . 2014-01-21 . 2014-10-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141022140221/http://www.bakerfamily.org/legs/mccanna/index.htm . dead .
7. News: Thorne. Will. Grain growing on this hallowed ground?. The Press-Enterprise. September 27, 1970.
8. News: There's a Cemetery There ... Somewhere. San Jose News. October 6, 1970. Associated Press.
9. News: Max. Nathan. Man says lot sits on sacred ground. The Press-Enterprise. January 16, 2005.
10. Original post-war burial location for Villegas; he was reburied at Riverside National Cemetery as the first burial when the cemetery opened in 1978.
11. News: Hunneman. John. Nothing backward about Radec. San Diego Union Tribune. July 13, 2001.
12. Note: Cemetery is maintained by the Riverside County Coroner and Public Administrator. Also see: Interment.net: Radec
13. Web site: William Powers Morris . Military Times Hall of Valor . . December 31, 2013 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20140101175009/http://projects.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=3357 . January 1, 2014 .
14. http://www.suvpac.org/camp18/news/Stoneman%20Dispatch%20Vol9%20No4%20Jul%202018.pdf Stoneman Dispatch
15. Kevin Hallaran, Allene Archibald, Lowell J. Bean, Sylvia B. Vane (1991). The Indian Cemetery at Old Temecula. .