About Lake View Cemetery
Lake View Cemetery is a cemetery near Cayuga Heights, Tompkins County, New York. The grounds sit at about 495 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 32 notable people buried here, including Carl Sagan, Liberty Hyde Bailey and Louis Agassiz Fuertes. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 954949. The nearest other listed cemetery is Ithaca City Cemetery, about 0.8 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Advanced Funeral Service Education Programs in Ithaca, about 1.2 mi away. It is one of 80 cemeteries we list in Tompkins County, and 48 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 1 of the 80 listings in Tompkins County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Cayuga Heights. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Lake View Cemetery
Among them: 9 scientists, 3 writers, 2 inventors and engineers, 1 football player, 1 architect, 1 artist, 1 baseball player, 1 musician.
- Carl Sagan1934-1996American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author
- Liberty Hyde Bailey1858-1954U.S. botanist
- Louis Agassiz Fuertes1874-1927United States ornithological artist
- Ethel Zoe Bailey1889-1983American botanist and curator
- John Clapp1851-1904Baseball player-manager
- Joseph Halpern1953-2026Israeli-American computer scientist
- Katherine Van Winkle Palmer1895-1982American paleontologist and geologist
- Charles E. Courtney1849-1920American rower and rowing coach
- Gil Dobie1879-1948American football player and coach, basketball coach
- Hsien Chung Wang1918-1978Chinese-American mathematician
- Juanita Breckenridge Bates1860-1946American Congregationalist minister
- William Henry Miller1848-1922American architect
Show all 32 notable burials
- Cleveland Abbe, Jr.1872-1934American geographer
- Ezra Dwight Sanderson1878-1944American entomologist, sociologist and university teacher
- George Chapman Caldwell1834-1907American chemist
- Glenn Washington Herrick1870-1965American entomologist
- Chester Platt1869-1934American inventor
- Estevan Antonio Fuertes1838-1903American civil engineer
- Frank Thilly1865-1934American philosopher and educator
- James Houck1940-2015American astrophysicist
- Sophronia Bucklin1828-1902American nurse
- Ben Light1911-1987American college sports coach, professor, administrator
- Benjamin Morton Siegel1916-1990American university teacher
- Emilie Rose Jonas1877-1940Czech American dairy farmer
- Felix Aber1895-1964German-American rabbi
- Charles William Severinghaus1916-2007American wildlife biologist
- Clarence Wyckoff1876-1933
- George H. Morrison1921-2004American chemist
- Lionel Weiss1923-2000Statistician
- Rennold Wolf1872-1922American writer and composer
People whose Wikidata entry gives Lake View 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 Lake View 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
- Ithaca City CemeteryIthaca, NYMunicipal cemetery0.8 mi
- Pleasant Grove CemeteryCayuga Heights, NYCemetery1.0 mi
- Mount Olivet CemeteryEast Ithaca, NYCemetery1.6 mi
- East Lawn CemeteryEast Ithaca, NYCemetery1.8 mi
- West Hill CemeteryNorthwest Ithaca, NYCemetery2.7 mi
- Calvary CemeteryIthaca, NYCemetery2.8 mi
- Kings CemeterySouth Hill, NYCemetery3.2 mi
- Brown CemeteryLansing, NYCemetery3.4 mi
- Inlet Valley CemeteryIthaca, NYCemetery4.0 mi
- South Hill CemeterySouth Hill, NYCemetery4.1 mi
Funeral homes near Lake View Cemetery
- Advanced Funeral Service Education Programs1.2 miFuneral home · Ithaca · (585) 356-4929
- Herson-Wagner Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Ithaca · (607) 272-2300
- Bangs Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · Ithaca · (607) 272-1922
- Lansing Funeral Home5.7 miFuneral home · Lansing · (607) 533-8600
- Perkins Funeral Home10 miFuneral home · Dryden · (607) 844-8161
- Ness-Sibley Funeral Home10 miFuneral home · Trumansburg · (607) 387-8151
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