Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City)

Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City), renamed from Palm Springs Mortuary & Mausoleum in 2005, is a mausoleum in Cathedral City, California near Palm Springs. 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. Forest Lawn
2. Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries
3. Irv Robbins
4. Gavin MacLeod
5. George Montgomery (actor)
6. Genevieve Waite
7. Rock Hudson
8. Jerry Vale
9. Harold Robbins
10. John Phillips (musician)
11. Phil Harris
12. Alice Faye
13. Guy Madison
14. Ken Venturi
15. Dorothy Kamenshek
16. Michael Rizzitello
17. Elisabeth Brooks
18. George Nader
19. Dinah Shore
20. John Conte (actor)