Following his loss of life, the Duke's family held a private, family-and-friends-only funeral for the actor, with safety personnel protecting the eyes of the public away, as Outsider stories. The kinfolk to begin with didn't mark his grave. Wayne's son, Ethan, would inform the Los Angeles Times that disclosing the location publicly can be disrespectful to the households of others buried there. "You want him to rest in peace. We didn't want to make a shrine. It's more out of respect for the people that are out there. They don't want their loved ones' graves trampled on."
There could have been more to it than only a want to give protection to the integrity of different graves in the cemetery, however. According to (*20*) Clover, his family feared that a marked grave may attract vandalism from left-wing protesters. Wayne's grave would stay unmarked for the next 20 years, but in 1998, consistent with The Vintage News, his family members recognized his grave with a simple bronze marker.
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