Mount Olivet Cemetery (Detroit)
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a cemetery at 17100 Van Dyke Avenue in the city of Detroit in Wayne County, Michigan. It opened in 1888 and is owned and operated by the Mount Elliott Cemetery Association, a not-for-profit Catholic organization. At 320 acres (130 ha), it is the largest cemetery in Detroit, although it no longer promotes itself publicly as a Roman Catholic institution.
Notable interments
- Jimmy Barrett, Major League Baseball player
- Jerry Buckley, radio journalist; led the recall of Mayor Charles Bowles in 1930[1]
- Salvatore Catalanotte, leader of Detroit Cosa Nostra family and Unione Siciliane
- Robert Henry Clancy, U.S. representative
- Leo Diegel, professional golfer, winner of PGA Championship in 1928 and 1929
- Joe Lafata, Major League Baseball player, New York Giants (1947–1949)
- John Lesinski Sr., U.S. representative
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz, U.S. representative
- Clarence J. McLeod, U.S. representative
- Patrick Vincent McNamara, U.S. senator
- George D. O'Brien, U.S. representative
- Louis Charles Rabaut, U.S. representative
- George Gregory Sadowski, U.S. representative
- Thomas Patrick Thornton, judge[2]
- Tom Tyler, actor
- Maurice Van Robays, Major League baseball player
- Joseph Zerilli, leader of Detroit Cosa Nostra family
- Zeke Zettner, member of rock band The Stooges
The cemetery contains 3 British Commonwealth war graves, a Royal Air Force Cadet and two Canadian soldiers, of World War I.[3]
References
- "Death of a Whistleblower: Detroit's Bankruptcy, Edward Snowden and Jerry Buckley | Kevin Walsh". Huffingtonpost.com. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
- Campbell, Bob (2 July 1985). "Judge earned a reputation for tenacity". Detroit Free Press. p. 13A.
Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Detroit.
- "CWGC Cemetery Report; Detroit (Mount Olivet) Cemetery". Retrieved 25 October 2013.
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