Alta Mesa Memorial Park is a non-denominational burial ground located in Palo Alto, California, United States. It was established in 1904 as a 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 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