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Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York)

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Address:
Hawthorne, NY, USA
Political territory:
Hawthorne
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The Gate of Heaven Cemetery, approximately 25 miles north of New York City, was established in 1917 at 10 West Stevens Ave. in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, as a Roman Catholic burial site. Among its famous residents is baseball player Babe Ruth, whose grave has an epitaph by Cardinal Francis Spellman and is almost always adorned by a large number of baseballs, bats, and caps. Adjacent to the Garden Mausoleum is a small train station of the Metro North Railroad Harlem Division named Mount Pleasant where 4 trains stop daily, 2 northbound and 2 southbound. Several baseball players are buried here.

Notable interments

  • Robert Abplanalp (1922–2003), American inventor of the aerosol spray valve
  • Fred Allen (1894–1956), actor and comedian
  • Thomas Breslin (1943–1992) Executive Vice President, National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees 1199C
  • Heywood Broun (1888–1939), journalist
  • Charles A. Buckley (1890–1967), United States Representative from New York
  • Frances W. "Billie" Cagney (1899–1994), dancer and wife of James Cagney
  • James Cagney (1899–1986), actor
  • Emil A. Ciccotelli (1929–1998), Chief of Detectives, New York City Police Department
  • Bob Considine (1906–1975), author
  • Gyp DeCarlo (1902-1973), mobster
  • Paul Dixon (1918 – 1974), television and radio entertainer
  • Bella Dodd (1904–1969), activist, teacher, and attorney
  • Jessica Dragonette (1900–1980), singer
  • James Farley (1888–1976), Postmaster General and advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Lou Gehrig (1904-1941), HOF baseball player for New York Yankees
  • Hector Guimard (1867–1942), architect and most prominent representative of the Art Nouveau movement in France
  • Frank Hardart (1884–1972), son of founder of Horn & Hardart automat
  • Julie Haydon (1910–1994), actress
  • Anna Held (1872–1918), actress and singer
  • Bess Houdini (1876–1943), wife of Harry Houdini
  • G. Murray Hulbert (1881–1950), United States Representative from New York
  • Ethel D. Jacobs (1910–2001), thoroughbred racehorse owner
  • Peggy Hopkins Joyce (1893–1957), actress and socialite
  • Arthur Judson (1881–1975), co-founder of CBS
  • Dorothy Kilgallen (1913–1965), journalist, television personality
  • T. Vincent Learson (1912–1996), IBM chairman, Ambassador at Large for Law of the Sea Matters
  • Ernesto Lecuona (1896–1963), composer and songwriter
  • James J. Lyons (1890–1966), Bronx Borough President from 1934 to 1962
  • Tim Mara (1887–1959), founder of the NFL New York Giants
  • Wellington Mara (1916–2005), owner of NFL New York Giants
  • Billy Martin (1928–1989), Major League Baseball player/manager
  • Malachi Martin (1921–1999), writer
  • Pat McDonald (1871–1954), Olympic champion weight-thrower
  • John McSherry (1944–1996), Major League Baseball umpire
  • Sal Mineo (1939–1976), actor
  • Condé Nast (1873–1942), publisher
  • George Jean Nathan (1882–1958), drama critic
  • Elliott Nugent (1896–1980), actor, director, and screenwriter
  • John P. O'Brien (1873–1951), politician and mayor of New York City
  • Richard W. O'Neill (1898–1986)- soldier & WWI Medal of Honor recipient
  • Fulton Oursler (1893–1952), writer
  • Westbrook Pegler (1894–1969), Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
  • Mike Quill (1905–1966), founder of Transport Workers Union of America
  • Dan Reeves (1912–1971), former owner of the NFL St. Louis Rams
  • Babe Ruth (1895–1948), Hall of Fame baseball player
  • Claire Merritt Ruth (1900–1976), wife of baseball great Babe Ruth
  • Dutch Schultz (1902–1935), mobster
  • Charles M. Schwab (1862–1939), steel magnate (remains later moved to St. Michael Cemetery in Loretto, Pennsylvania)
  • Arnold Skaaland (1925–2007), professional wrestler
  • Spyros Skouras (1893–1971), former president of 20th Century-Fox
  • Lisa Steinberg (1981–1987), child murder victim
  • James H. Torrens (1874–1952), politician
  • Jimmy Walker (1881–1946), mayor of New York City
  • William B. Widnall (1906–1983), former US Congressman
  • Malcolm Wilson (1914–2000), Governor of New York
  • Sal Yvars (1924–2008), Major League Baseball catcher
  • One Commonwealth war grave, of a Royal Canadian Air Force airman of World War II.

Sources: wikipedia.org, wikimapia.org

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