Alta Mesa Memorial Park

Alta Mesa Memorial Park is a non-denominational burial ground located in Palo Alto, California, United States. It was established in 1904 as a 72 acre cemetery. It includes traditional burial plots, a mausoleum and a columbarium.



Notable burials

 * Arthur Bridgman Clark (1866–1948), architect, professor, first Mayor of Mayfield
 * Bertha Wright (1876–1971), founder of the Children's Hospital Oakland
 * Birge Clark (1893–1989), architect
 * Charles Gilman Norris (1881–1945), novelist
 * David Packard (1912–1996), co-founder of Hewlett-Packard and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
 * Frank Bacon (1864–1922), actor and playwright
 * Frederick Terman (1900–1982), considered (along with Shockley) the father of Silicon Valley
 * Henry Seymour Kaplan (1918–1984), American radiologist and pioneer in radiation therapy and radiobiology, and the first physician credited with the Atoms for Peace Award.
 * Herold Ruel (1896–1963), major-league American baseball player
 * Kathleen Thompson Norris (1880–1966), American novelist
 * Leonid (Joseph) Dukhovny (1938–2022), Soviet and American songwriter, poet, musician, bard, producer.
 * Ray Lyman Wilbur (1875–1949), physician, third president of Stanford University and 31st U.S. Secretary of the Interior
 * Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (1945–1973), keyboardist, harmonica player and lead vocalist, founding member of the Grateful Dead
 * Shirley Temple (1928–2014), American film and television actress, singer, dancer, and public servant
 * Sidney Dean Townley (1867–1946), Professor of Astronomy, Stanford University
 * Stephen Timoshenko (1878–1972), Professor of Applied Mechanics, Stanford University and namesake of the Timoshenko Medal
 * Steve Jobs (1955–2011), co-founder of Apple Inc. (unmarked grave)
 * Tennessee Ernie Ford (1919–1991), musician
 * Thomas A. Bailey (1902–1983), American historian
 * Wilhelmina Harper (1884–1973), successful children's author in the 1930s and 1940s, and published more than 40 compilations of children and young adult stories
 * William Shockley (1910–1989), developed transistor and won Nobel Prize for Physics
 * Y.A. Tittle (1926–2017), football player