About Lakeview Cemetery
Lakeview Cemetery is a cemetery near New Canaan, Fairfield County, Connecticut. It lies about 0.7 mi west of New Canaan. The grounds sit at about 180 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 50 notable people buried here, including Lilia Skala, John Robert Gregg and Emily Barringer. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 208363. The nearest other listed cemetery is Parade Hill Cemetery, about 1.4 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Hoyt Funeral Home in New Canaan, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 242 cemeteries we list in Fairfield County, and 129 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Fairfield County dates to 1680. 5 of the 242 listings in Fairfield County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, New Canaan. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Lakeview Cemetery
Among them: 6 writers, 5 actors, 3 architects, 3 artists, 3 business leaders, 3 physicians, 3 World War I veterans, 1 football player.
- Lilia Skala1896-1994Austrian-American actress
- John Robert Gregg1867-1948Irish inventor and writer
- Emily Barringer1876-1961American ambulance surgeon
- Kitty Genovese1935-1964American murder victim
- Jackie Kelk1923-2002Actor and comedian
- Faith Baldwin1893-1978American author of romance and fiction
- Cecil Spooner1875-1953American actress
- H. T. Webster1885-1952American cartoonist
- Riccardo Martin1874-1952American opera singer
- John Rogers1829-1904Sculptor from the United States
- Woodruff Leeming1870-1919American architect
- Austin W. Lord1860-1922American architect
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- Edna May Spooner1873-1953American actress and playwright
- William Attwood1919-1989American diplomat
- Carleton Lewis Brownson1866-1948American hellenist
- Harry Bates Thayer1858-1936American businessman
- Benjamin P. Mead1849-1913American politician in Connecticut
- Bo Hickey1945-2023American football fullback
- Jonathan Dean1924-2014American diplomat
- Mary Watkins Cushing1889-1974American dance and music critic
- Robert Rives La Monte1867-1950American socialist writer
- Rosemary Rice1925-2012American actress
- Wilky Gilmore1940-1993American basketball player
- William A. Keener1856-1913American judge
- Almy Oldrin1815-1905Wife of William Henry Wood Sr.
- Charles E. Blaney1866-1944American playwright and actor
- Dorothy Donnell Calhoundied 1963About MOOD Natural Cigar (MOOD Cigarette)
- Edwin G. Dunning1885-1931American photographer
- Floyd C. Noble1884-1980American stockbroker and amateur naturalist
- George Charles Boldt Jr.1879-1958American businessman
- James William Boyle1845-1915American Tammany Hall leader
- James William Boyle II1911-1960Husband of Barbara Constance Holden
- Josephine Wood1844-1906Wife of James William Boyle
- Linnaeus Edford La Fetra1868-1965American pediatrician
- Samuel Lloyd1860-1926American surgeon
- Walter Childs Wood1864-1953American surgeon, state legislator, and university trustee
- William H. Blackburne1857-1950American zookeeper
- Allen Williams Bevin1893-1974United States military officer
- Cordelia Eleanor Dominick1911-1940
- Cordelia Eleanor Hoyt1886-1964
- Gayer Gardner Dominick1887-1961Lawyer, socialite
- Marshall Hugh Montgomery1909-2000American amateur genealogist, and local historian
- Mary Gallatin Hoppin1903-1965
- Oscar W. Binkerd1850-1923
- Robert S. Binkerd1882-1969American publicist
- Samuel Comstock1767-1819
- Samuel St. John1813-1876American physician and chemist
- Sarah Humason1898-1996Short story writer
- Thaddeus Hanford1714-1784Grandson of Thomas Hanford, first minister in Norwalk, Connecticut
- William Finger1897-1991American businessman and diplomat
People whose Wikidata entry gives Lakeview 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
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What Lakeview 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
- Parade Hill CemeteryNew Canaan, CTCemetery1.4 mi
- Old Church CemeteryNew Canaan, CTChurch cemetery1.4 mi
- Nursery CemeteryNorwalk, CTCemetery1.6 mi
- Silvermine CemeterySilvermine Avenue, New Canaan, CTCemetery1.7 mi
- Garden Center CemeteryNew Canaan, CTCemetery1.8 mi
- Lockwood CemeteryNew Canaan, CTCemetery1.9 mi
- Weed CemeteryNew Canaan, CTCemetery2.0 mi
- Weed Avenue CemeteryWeed Avenue, Norwalk, CTCemetery2.1 mi
- Stephen Mather CemeteryDarien, CTCemetery2.2 mi
- Stevens CemeteryNorth Stamford, CTCemetery2.6 mi
Funeral homes near Lakeview Cemetery
- Hoyt Funeral Home0.5 miFuneral home · New Canaan · (203) 966-0700
- Newkirk-Palmer Funeral Homes0.6 miFuneral home · New Canaan · (860) 824-7350
- Magner Funeral Home Inc3.8 miFuneral home · Norwalk · (203) 866-5553
- Raymond Funeral Home4.2 miFuneral home · Norwalk · (203) 847-7291
- Collins Funeral Home4.2 miFuneral home · Norwalk · (203) 866-0747
- Baker Funeral Services Inc4.7 miFuneral home · Norwalk · (203) 857-4155
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
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