Mount Olivet Cemetery (Detroit)

Coordinates: 42°25′12″N 83°01′25″W / 42.419972°N 83.023682°W / 42.419972; -83.023682 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 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
Gerald E. (Jerry) Buckley, radio journalist who led the recall of Mayor Charles Bowles in 1930.^[1]
Joseph Zerilli, leader of Detroit Cosa Nostra family
Salvatore Catalanotte, leader of Detroit Cosa Nostra family and Unione Siciliane
The cemetery contains 3 British Commonwealth war graves, a Royal Air Force Cadet and two Canadian soldiers, of World War I.^[2]
Judge Thomas Patrick Thornton^[3]

References

↑ "Death of a Whistleblower: Detroit's Bankruptcy, Edward Snowden and Jerry Buckley | Kevin Walsh". Huffingtonpost.com. 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
↑ "CWGC Cemetery Report; Detroit (Mount Olivet) Cemetery". Retrieved 25 October 2013.
↑ Campbell, Bob (July 2, 1985). "Judge earned a reputation for tenacity". Detroit Free Press. p. 13A. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Detroit.

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