About Golden Cemetery
Golden Cemetery is a cemetery near West Pleasant View, Jefferson County, Colorado. It lies about 1.0 mi east of West Pleasant View. The grounds sit at about 5,935 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 5 notable people buried here, including Vine Deloria, Jr., Roy Hartzell and Andrew Oliphant Patterson. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2119424. The nearest other listed cemetery is William F Cody Grave, about 2.3 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Foothills Cremation & Funeral Service in Golden, about 0.2 mi away. It is one of 26 cemeteries we list in Jefferson County, and 17 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, West Pleasant View. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Golden Cemetery
Among them: 1 artist, 1 baseball player, 1 writer.
- Vine Deloria, Jr.1933-2005Standing Rock Sioux author, lawyer, seminarian, educator, political scientist, and Native American civil rights activist
- Roy Hartzell1881-1961American baseball player
- Andrew Oliphant Patterson1825-1887American politician
- DeeWitt Baulch1933-2010American meteorologist
- Kirsten Elisabeth Olrik1897-1990Danish-American musician associated with Elverhoj Colony in New York
People whose Wikidata entry gives Golden Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
39.72806, -105.19611
What Golden Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- William F Cody GraveGolden, COCemetery2.3 mi
- White Ash Mine CemeteryGolden, COCemetery2.3 mi
- Mount Vernon CemeteryWest Pleasant View, COCemetery2.7 mi
- Golden Hill CemeteryApplewood, COCemetery3.3 mi
- Rockland CemeteryGenesee, COCemetery4.3 mi
- Mount Olivet CemeteryApplewood, COCemetery4.6 mi
- Morrison CemeteryDakota Ridge, COCemetery4.7 mi
- Saint Joseph Episcopal Church ColumbariumLakewood, COEpiscopal cemetery5.0 mi
- Saint Paul's Episcopal ColumbariumLakewood, COEpiscopal cemetery5.1 mi
- Ralston CemeteryArvada, COCemetery5.9 mi
Funeral homes near Golden Cemetery
- Foothills Cremation & Funeral Service0.2 miFuneral home · Golden · (303) 279-1110
- Olinger Woods Chapel2.4 miFuneral home · Golden · (303) 279-4575
- Morningstar Cremation Providers, Llc3.5 miCremation provider · Lakewood · (720) 295-9565
- Aspen Mortuaries - Lakewood3.7 miMortuary · Lakewood · (303) 647-5117
- A Simple Cremation3.7 miCremation provider · Lakewood · (303) 223-0068
- Foothills Cremation & Funeral Service4.1 miCremation provider · Golden · (303) 279-1110
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