San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Catholic cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, United States.

San Fernando Mission Cemetery is a Catholic burial ground in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, adjacent to Mission San Fernando Rey de España and Bishop Alemany High School. Its grounds are uneven and uncultivated in parts, with dry grass, low scrub, scattered rocks, and a white wooden picket fence enclosing a pale cross. A mid-century modern mausoleum holds four mosaics by ecclesiastical artist Isabel Piczek, two dated 1963 and 1964. The on-site Mission Hills Catholic Mortuary has a chapel seating 160.

The site began in 1797 with the first burials at the nearby San Fernando Mission. It has been maintained by the Los Angeles Archdiocese for two centuries and reflects the evolution of the region during that time.

The cemetery holds the graves of actors Bob Hope, Walter Brennan and Ritchie Valens, the singer who died in the 1959 plane crash. Lee de Forest, inventor of the triode, and M. Frank Rudy, who devised the Nike Air Sole, are buried here too. Carmine and Italia Coppola, parents of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, lie in the same ground.

The grounds sit next to San Fernando Mission and Bishop Alemany High School in Mission Hills, with the Mission Hills Catholic Mortuary on the cemetery property. Pets, picnics, alcohol and photography are not allowed on the grounds at any time. The cemetery is an active burial site, so check with the Catholic Cemeteries Department before visiting a specific grave.

Four mosaics by ecclesiastical artist Isabel Piczek decorate a mid-century modern mausoleum here; two carry their dates, 1963 and 1964, set into the mosaic itself. The cemetery's first interment of the current grounds was Sinferosa Real Ruiz on December 15, 1952; she was raised on Camulos Rancho, the ranch made famous by the Ramona pageant.