University of Texas Health Center Memorial Park in San Antonio, Texas

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Memorial Park of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Also know as UTHSCSA's Memorial Park or Cemetery. The Memorial Park itself does not have an address. It is near or behind McDermott Clinical Science Building.
The Campus address is
UT Health Science Center at San Antonio
7703 Floyd Curl Drive
San Antonio, TX 78229-3900

Generous People donate their bodies so that students may learn to be doctors or scientists may gain further knowledge.
When studies are completed the bodies are cremated. Each year in the spring there is an internment service during which all ashes for the previous year are buried in a common grave. The Memorial Park was established on January 25, 1996. Prior to that the remains were buried off campus. In 1996 the off campus remains were brought to this memorial park and reburied in a common grave with the marker 1966-1996. Subsequent to that are yearly markers.
The Body Donation Program is anonymous so no names are used. Families of donors may be able to get information by contacting the Body Donation Program at the above address.
The plaque pictured gives further information.