About Mount Olivet Cemetery
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a cemetery near Hamtramck, Wayne County, Michigan. It lies about 2.7 mi southwest of Hamtramck. The grounds sit at about 620 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 32 notable people buried here, including Tom Tyler, Patrick V. McNamara and Art Mooney. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 632826. The nearest other listed cemetery is Forest Lawn Cemetery, about 1.0 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Paradise Chapel Home For Funerals in Detroit, about 0.6 mi away. It is one of 110 cemeteries we list in Wayne County, and 38 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Wayne County dates to 1925. 3 of the 110 listings in Wayne County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Hamtramck. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery
Among them: 7 US representatives, 4 baseball players, 3 business leaders, 2 actors, 1 football player, 1 basketball player, 1 journalist, 1 musician.
- Tom Tyler1903-1954American actor
- Patrick V. McNamara1894-1966American politician
- Art Mooney1911-1993American singer
- George G. Sadowski1903-1961American politician
- Clarence J. McLeod1895-1959American politician
- George D. O'Brien1900-1957American politician
- John Lesinski, Sr.1885-1950American politician
- John William Smith1882-1942American politician
- Joseph Zerilli1897-1977Detroit gangster
- Louis C. Rabaut1886-1961American politician
- Robert H. Clancy1882-1962Michigan politician
- Thomas Patrick Thornton1898-1985United States federal judge
Show all 32 notable burials
- Jimmy Barrett1875-1921American baseball player
- Salvatore Catalanotte1894-1930American mobster
- Thaddeus M. Machrowicz1899-1970American politician
- Anthony Joseph Zerilli1927-2015American mobster
- Cass Michaels1926-1982Major League Baseball infielder
- William Daniel Mahon1861-1949(1861-1949) American labor leader
- Angus Goetz1897-1977American football player, orthopedic surgeon
- Anthony Binga Jr.1843-1919American minister and educator
- Maurice Van Robays1914-1965American baseball player
- Sofiya Parfanovych1898-1968
- Thomas Licavoli1904-1973American mobster
- Kitty Garesche1850-1940
- Larry Bleach1912-1991American baseball player
- Natalia Kostiv-Saramaha1905-1985Actor
- William C. Sauer1843-1908Cartographer and civil engineer active in Michigan, US
- William P. Bradley1867-1938American lawyer
- David E. Stott1852-1916Businessman active in Michigan, US
- James J. Brady1878-1925
- Neal Shine1930-2007Michigan journalist
- Richard Emmett Powers1943-2020Trade unionist from Detroit, United States
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Olivet 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 Mount Olivet 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
- Forest Lawn CemeteryHamtramck, MICemetery1.0 mi
- Sacred Heart of Saint Mary CemeteryHamtramck, MICatholic cemetery1.3 mi
- Gethsemane CemeteryHamtramck, MICemetery1.6 mi
- Bnai - David CemeteryHamtramck, MIJewish cemetery1.7 mi
- Assumption Grotto Catholic CemeteryEastpointe, MICatholic cemetery1.9 mi
- Beth Olem CemeteryHamtramck, MIJewish cemetery3.4 mi
- Trinity Lutheran CemeteryHamtramck, MILutheran cemetery3.5 mi
- Saint Clement CemeteryCenter Line, MICemetery3.9 mi
- Immanuel Methodist Church CemeteryEastpointe, MIMethodist cemetery4.3 mi
- Saint Peter's Evangelical Lutheran CemeteryEastpointe, MILutheran cemetery4.3 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Olivet Cemetery
- Paradise Chapel Home For Funerals0.6 miFuneral home · Detroit · (313) 564-8484
- Paradise Chapel0.6 miFuneral home · Detroit
- Caver Memorial Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Detroit · (313) 892-8300
- New McFall Brothers Funeral Home (Eastside Chapel)1.3 miFuneral home · Detroit · (313) 922-4520
- Peace Chapel Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Detroit · (313) 371-0120
- Hutchison Funeral Home Inc.1.4 miFuneral home · Detroit · (313) 893-1880
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