About Grand Lawn Cemetery
Grand Lawn Cemetery is a cemetery near Redford, Wayne County, Michigan. It lies about 2.7 mi southwest of Redford. The grounds sit at about 627 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 13 notable people buried here, including Charles Archibald Nichols, Clarence M. Burton and Frank Owen. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 627092. The nearest other listed cemetery is Redford Cemetery, about 0.8 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Ellis Funeral Home in Detroit, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 110 cemeteries we list in Wayne County, and 61 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, Redford. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Grand Lawn Cemetery
Among them: 3 baseball players, 1 actor, 1 inventor or engineer, 1 Medal of Honor recipient, 1 US representative.
- Charles Archibald Nichols1876-1920American politician
- Clarence M. Burton1853-1932American lawyer and author
- Frank Owen1879-1942American baseball player
- Dick Littlefield1926-1997American baseball player
- Horatio Earle1855-1935American transport engineer
- Irv Bartling1914-1973American baseball player
- Albert Joseph Smith1898-1973American Marine
- David L. Holmes1887-1960American college sports coach and athletics administrator
- Earle Graser1909-1941Canadian actor
- Georgia Emery1867-1931American civil leader and businesswoman
- E. Norine Law1862-1914American temperance worker
- Skylar Herbert2014-2020First child to die from COVID-19 complications in Michigan
Show all 13 notable burials
- Tim Austin1956-2019Drummer. Born and raised in Chicago, IL
People whose Wikidata entry gives Grand Lawn 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
42.41838, -83.27293
What Grand Lawn 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
- Redford CemeteryRedford, MICemetery0.8 mi
- Mount Hazel Cemetery18460 Lahser Road, Detroit, MICemetery0.9 mi
- Beth El Memorial ParkRedford, MIMemorial park2.8 mi
- Northwest Hebrew CemeteryRedford, MIJewish cemetery2.9 mi
- Mount Hope Memorial GardensRedford, MIMemorial park3.1 mi
- Detroit Memorial Park West CemeteryRedford, MIMemorial park3.3 mi
- Clarenceville CemeteryFarmington, MICemetery3.4 mi
- Pioneer CemeterySouthfield, MICemetery4.0 mi
- Southfield CemeterySouthfield, MICemetery4.4 mi
- Holy Sepulchre CemeteryFarmington Hills, MICemetery4.6 mi
Funeral homes near Grand Lawn Cemetery
- Ellis Funeral Home0.5 miFuneral home · Detroit · (313) 535-8800
- Charles Step Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Redford · (313) 531-1889
- Fisher Funeral Home & Cremation Services1.4 miFuneral home · Redford · (313) 535-3030
- Compassion Funeral Home and Cremation Service1.6 miFuneral home · Detroit · (313) 386-3725
- Trinity Chapel Funeral Home1.6 miFuneral home · Detroit · (313) 532-8182
- GOLDEN GATES FUNERAL HOME, INC1.7 miFuneral home · Detroit · (248) 554-5828
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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