Buried Here – Don Wilson, Co-Founder And Guitarist For The Ventures

Don Wilson

Don is best known as a co-founder and guitarist for The Ventures. The Ventures would go on to have fourteen singles in the Billboard Hot 100. The band scored the No. 2 hit in the country with “Walk, Don’t Run” in 1960 and also recorded the theme song for “Hawaii Five-O.”

During the 1960s and 1970s, thirty-eight of the band’s albums charted in the United States. With over 100 million records sold.

In 2008, the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Tahoma National Cemetery
18600 Southeast 240th Street
Kent, Washington 98042