About West View Cemetery
West View Cemetery is a cemetery near West View, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It lies about 1.4 mi northwest of West View. The grounds sit at about 1,217 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 7 notable people buried here, including Henry Ellenbogen, Bill Benswanger and J. Leonard Levy. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1191127. The nearest other listed cemetery is Sisters of the Holy Spirit Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Heard Funeral Home in Pittsburgh, about 0.8 mi away. It is one of 342 cemeteries we list in Allegheny County, and 190 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Allegheny County dates to 1824. 5 of the 342 listings in Allegheny County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, West View. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at West View Cemetery
Among them: 2 business leaders, 1 scientist, 1 US representative.
- Henry Ellenbogen1900-1985American politician
- Bill Benswanger1892-1972American baseball executive
- J. Leonard Levy1865-1917English-American Rabbi
- Josiah Cohen1840-193029 Nov 1840 - 11 Jun 1930
- Albert C. Lehman1878-1935American businessman and philanthropist
- Irving Wender1915-2016American chemical engineering professor
- Silas Adelsheimdied 1984American businessman; president of the National Council to Combat Blindness
People whose Wikidata entry gives West 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
40.50402, -80.02133
What West 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
- Sisters of the Holy Spirit CemeteryWest View, PACemetery0.3 mi
- Christ Our Redeemer Catholic CemeteryWest View, PACatholic cemetery0.4 mi
- United CemeteryWest View, PACemetery0.5 mi
- Saint Alexander CemeteryBellevue, PACemetery0.8 mi
- Saint Josephs CemeteryWest View, PACemetery1.0 mi
- Lithuanian Cemetery AssociationWest View, PACemetery1.0 mi
- Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth CemeteryWest View, PACemetery1.2 mi
- Rosedale CemeteryBellevue, PACemetery1.3 mi
- Saint Mary's CemeteryMillvale, PACemetery1.4 mi
- Mount Assisi Convent CemeteryBellevue, PACemetery1.5 mi
Funeral homes near West View Cemetery
- The Monument Mall0.5 miMonument dealer · Pittsburgh · (412) 931-1017
- Heard Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · Pittsburgh · (412) 931-0200
- Schellhaas Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Inc.1.0 miFuneral home · Pittsburgh · (412) 931-5497
- O'Brien's Funeral Home1.8 miFuneral home · Pittsburgh · (412) 766-1680
- Lawrence T. Miller Funeral Home, Inc.1.8 miFuneral home · Pittsburgh · (412) 761-2441
- Miller Funeral Home1.8 miFuneral home · Bellevue
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