Mount Olivet Cemetery (Detroit)

Mt. 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.

Notable people interred at Mt. Olivet Cemetery:

U.S. Senator Patrick Vincent McNamara (D-MI).
U.S. Representative Louis Charles Rabaut (D-MI)
U.S. Representative Clarence J. McLeod (R-MI)
U.S. Representative John Lesinski, Sr. (D-MI)
U.S. Representative George D. O'Brien (D-MI)
U.S. Representative George Gregory Sadowski (D-MI)
U.S. Representative Robert Henry Clancy(D-MI)
U.S. Representative Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz (D-MI)
Tom Tyler, actor
Jimmy Barrett, Major League baseball player
Joe Lafata (1921-2004), Major League baseball player
Maurice Van Robays, Major League baseball player
Joseph Zerilli, leader of Detroit Cosa Nostra family

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The Political Graveyard

Mount Olivet Cemetery (Detroit)

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