Cedar Park Cemetery in Calumet Park, Illinois

Cedar Park Cemetery is a cemetery in Calumet Park, Cook County, Illinois. The grounds sit at about 600 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 8 notable people buried here, including Nelsan Ellis, Ira Murchison and Bee Palmer. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 405759. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Hope Cemetery, about 2.5 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral chapel we know of is Hickey Memorial Chapel in Blue Island, about 1.8 mi away. It is one of 187 cemeteries we list in Cook County, and 51 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Cook County dates to 1834. 23 of the 187 listings in Cook County have a phone number or website on record.

Among them: 2 baseball players, 1 actor, 1 football player, 1 artist, 1 inventor or engineer, 1 Medal of Honor recipient, 1 musician, 1 Vietnam War veteran.

• Nelsan Ellis1977-2017
  American actor
• Ira Murchison1933-1994
  American athletic competitor
• Bee Palmer1894-1967
  American singer and dancer
• Carmel Bernon Harvey, Jr.1946-1967
  United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
• Jimmy Snyder1909-1939
  American race car driver
• Don Kolloway1918-1994
  American baseball player
• Fred Kommers1886-1943
  American baseball player
• August Frederick Haase1880-1968
  American photographer and postcard publisher

People whose Wikidata entry gives Cedar Park 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.

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.

• Mount Hope Cemetery

  11500 South Fairfield Avenue, Chicago, IL
  Cemetery

  2.5 mi
• Beverly Cemetery

  12000 South Kedzie Avenue, Blue Island, IL
  Cemetery

  2.7 mi
• Mount Olivet Cemetery

  2755 West 111th Street, Chicago, IL · est. 1855
  Catholic cemetery

  2.9 mi
• Lincoln Cemetery

  12300 South Kedzie Avenue, Blue Island, IL
  Christian cemetery

  2.9 mi
• Oak Hill Cemetery

  11900 South Kedzie Avenue, Blue Island, IL
  Cemetery

  3.1 mi
• Ever Rest Cemetery (historical)

  Merrionette Park, IL
  Cemetery

  3.1 mi
• Mount Greenwood Cemetery

  2900 West 111th Street, Chicago, IL
  Cemetery

  3.2 mi
• First Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery

  4135 West 127th Street, Alsip, IL
  Lutheran cemetery

  4.1 mi
• Berger Cemetery

  Dolton, IL
  Cemetery

  4.3 mi
• Saint Casimir Catholic Cemetery

  4401 West 111th Street, Chicago, IL
  Catholic cemetery

  4.4 mi

• Hickey Memorial Chapel

  Funeral chapel · Blue Island · (708) 388-1636
  1.8 mi
• Krueger Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Blue Island · (708) 388-1300
  2.0 mi
• Paradise Garden Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Chicago · (773) 468-7434
  2.1 mi
• Keith McGee Funeral Home Inc.

  Funeral home · Chicago · (773) 793-0820
  2.1 mi
• Higgins Funeral Home (Heavenly Angels)

  Funeral home · Chicago
  2.1 mi
• Higgins Family Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Chicago · (773) 366-3663
  2.1 mi

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