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Gate of Heaven Cemetery, approximately 25 miles (40 km) north of New York City, was established in 1917 at 10 West Stevens Ave. in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, as a 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 ...
Gate of Heaven Cemetery is a cemetery located in the Aspen Hill section of Silver Spring, Maryland, in the United States. It is operated and maintained by the Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of Washington, Inc. [1] At the time of the cemetery's consecration in 1956, it was the first Roman Catholic archdiocesan cemetery to open in the ...
81,000 [1] Website. Gate of Heaven Cemetery. Gate of Heaven Cemetery is a cemetery located in East Hanover Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. The cemetery is operated under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. It opened in 1937 and had 81,000 burials through 2002. 100 of the cemetery's original 128 acres ...
An elk statue. Kensico Cemetery, located in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York was founded in 1889, when many New York City cemeteries were becoming full, and rural cemeteries were being created near the railroads that served the city. Initially 250 acres (1.0 km 2), it was expanded to 600 acres (2.4 km 2) in 1905, but reduced to 461 acres ...
Category:Burials at Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York) Category. : Burials at Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York) This category is for people whose remains are interred in Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Westchester County, New York .
Pages in category "Burials at Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Silver Spring, Maryland)" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Silver Spring, Maryland)
He was given a Catholic funeral at Christ the Redeemer Catholic Church in Sterling, Virginia, and buried in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C.. On his grave is the German inscription: "Was du sein willst. sei est ganz.", which translates as "Whatever you want to be, be it completely."
A number of new cemeteries were therefore established in the "rural" areas in and around Washington: Columbian Harmony Cemetery in D.C.; Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring, Maryland; Glenwood Cemetery in D.C.; and Woodlawn Cemetery in D.C. [3] Father Charles I. White, the 51-year-old priest who had led St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church ...