Greenwood Memorial Park (San Diego)
Greenwood Memorial Park is a cemetery located on unincorporated land surrounded by the city of San Diego at 4300 Imperial Avenue in San Diego County, California. The cemetery is adjacent to Mount Hope Cemetery.
Opened in 1907, Greenwood covers approximately 125 acres (0.51 km2) five miles east of Downtown San Diego. The cemetery is an example of a rural cemetery, incorporating architecture, art, and landscaping into its design.[1] Greenwood and its accompanying mortuary are now part of NorthStar Memorial Group (NSMP).
Notable interments
- Belle Benchley (1882–1973), director of the San Diego Zoo from 1927–1953
- Dan Broderick, attorney, and his wife Linda, murdered by his ex-wife, Betty Broderick, in 1989
- Victor Buono (1938–1982), character actor
- George Burnham (1868–1939), banker, politician
- Marvel Crosson (1904–1929), pioneer female aviator
- Bob Elliott (1916–1966), Major League Baseball player, 1947 National League MVP
- David Faber (1928–2015), Polish-born Holocaust survivor, author, lecturer
- Walter Fuller (1910–2003), jazz trumpeter and vocalist, civil-rights activist
- Ulysses S. "Buck" Grant, Jr. (1852–1929), son of Ulysses S. Grant, attorney and investment capitalist, developer of the U.S. Grant Hotel
- Ulysses S. Grant IV (1893–1977), grandson of President Ulysses S. Grant and former chairman of the Department of Geology, University of California at Los Angeles
- Burke Hanford (1872–1928), sailor, recipient of the Medal of Honor
- William "Bill" Kettner (1864–1930), United States Congressman, civic booster
- Moses A. Luce (1842–1933), Civil War veteran, Medal of Honor recipient, attorney, founder of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps
- Charles Schroeter (1837–1921), Civil War and Apache War veteran, Medal of Honor recipient; re-interred at Miramar National Cemetery in 2015[2]
- Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861–1936), operatic contralto
- Phil Swing (1884–1963), United States Congressman
- Gregon A. Williams, Marine Corps Major general; served in Nicaragua, World War II and Korean War
- Harold Bell Wright (1872–1944), best-selling writer
There is one British Commonwealth war grave to a Lieutenant-Commander Surgeon of the Royal Navy of World War I.[3]
References
- ^ Mallios, Seth and Caterino, David M. Cemeteries of San Diego. Arcadia Publishing. 2007.
- ^ Steele, Jeanette Steele (30 May 2015). "Medal of Honor soldier in unmarked crypt". San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
- ^ "Casualty Record, J Hadwen". Commonwealth War Graves Commission date accessed = 22 December 2016.
Further reading
- Culbertson, Judi; Randall, Tom (1989). "13: San Diego Cemeteries". Permanent Californians: an illustrated guide to the cemeteries of California. Chelsea, VT: Chelsea Green. pp. 216–217. ISBN 978-0930031213. OCLC 19322965.