Beloved Wife and Mother
Beloved Husband and Father
In Loving Memory
Gone, But Not Forgotten
In Memory, From Daughters & Sons
Our Little Angel
Her Love Lingers
These are a few of the loving inscriptions on stone that linger in Oceanside’s old Oceanview Cemetery.
During a recent walk down South Coast Highway, I redirected my feet and wandered through the 3-acre resting place, originally called the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, established in 1895.
As a blogger who’s always searching for interesting sights, I was wondering if some “famous” person might be buried here.
Shame on me for thinking that way. I had missed the central message of a cemetery. It’s that we all might be mortal, but loves lives on.
Are you curious about the history of this old cemetery? A State of California resource document includes:
From its inception in 1895 until about 1950, when Eternal Hills Memorial Park opened in Oceanside, Oceanview was the primary non-denominational cemetery in Oceanside. During its heyday in the 1920s, 30s and 40s there were well over 1000 burials at Oceanview… over 1100 obituaries have been compiled, by the Oceanside Historical Society, of people interred at Oceanview… Oceanview contains the remains of veterans involved in every war or conflict from the Civil War to World War II, inclusive. Those interred at Oceanview range in age from just a few hours old to Agapita Soliz whose family claimed she was 110 years old at the time of her death in 1941. Many of Oceanside’s pioneers and merchants, dating back to the 1880s, are interred at Oceanview.
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