About Lake View Cemetery
Lake View Cemetery is a cemetery near Seattle, King County, Washington. It lies about 2.1 mi southwest of Seattle. The grounds sit at about 374 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 97 notable people buried here, including Bruce Lee, Bill Russell and Brandon Lee. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1506057. The nearest other listed cemetery is Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral chapel we know of is Florence Henry Memorial Chapel in Seattle, about 1.1 mi away. It is one of 65 cemeteries we list in King County, and 21 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in King County dates to 1986. 13 of the 65 listings in King County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Seattle. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Lake View Cemetery
Among them: 9 writers, 7 actors, 5 artists, 4 business leaders, 4 journalists, 2 architects, 2 baseball players, 2 musicians.
- Bruce Lee1940-1973Hong Kong, American martial artist and actor
- Bill Russell1934-2022American basketball player
- Brandon Lee1965-1993American actor
- John Saxon1936-2020American actor
- Denise Levertov1923-1997British-American poet
- Charles Clary1873-1931Actor
- Elisha P. Ferry1825-1895American politician
- Vivian Dandridge1921-1991American actress and singer
- E. W. Kenyon1867-1948British writer
- Elijah S. Grammer1868-1936American politician
- Princess Angeline1810-1896Native American basket weaver
- Arthur Armstrong Denny1822-1899American politician, businessman, author
Show all 97 notable burials
- Cordelia Wilson1873-1953Artist
- David Swinson Maynard1808-1873American pioneer and doctor
- Fred Allen1890-1964American long jumper and child psychiatrist
- Hiram M. Chittenden1858-1917American engineer
- James Stevens1892-1971American writer and musician
- Robert Moran1857-1943American politician
- Alden J. Blethen1845-1915Editor in chief of the Seattle Daily Times
- Cornelius H. Hanford1849-1926American judge
- Jeff Heath1915-1975Canadian baseball player
- John M. Frink1855-1914American politician
- John W. Nordstrom1871-1963American businessman
- Josiah Collins1864-1949Seattle attorney, civil servant and politician
- William Farrand Prosser1834-1911Union Army officer, politician and author
- A. W. Piper1828-1904Seattle pioneer
- Charles Stokes1902-1996American politician
- Daniel J. Kelleher1864-1929American banker and lawyer
- Granville O. Haller1819-1897United States Army officer in the Mexican War, Civil War, and Indian Wars
- Henry Atkins1827-1885American businessman and politician
- Horace Chapin Henry1844-1928American banker and railroad executive
- Ohlin Harrison Adsit1855-1909American politician
- Thomas Fletcher Oakes1843-1919American railway executive
- Walter B. Beals1876-1960American judge
- William Grose1835-1898American pioneer
- Edward Sturgis Ingraham1849-1926American school superintendent
- Elizabeth Ordway1828-1897American suffragist
- Emil Frisk1874-1922Professional baseball player
- Frank Hanford1853-1921American politician
- George F. Whitworth1816-1907American missionary
- George Frederick Frye1833-1912One of Seattle's first developers
- Helen Gatch1861-1942American photographer
- Henry Schmitz1892-1965
- Hiram Bond1838-1906American judge
- J. Lister Holmes1891-1986American architect
- John J. McGilvra1827-1903American judge
- John Jordan1832-1886American politician (1832-1886); mayor of Seattle
- John Ogden1824-1910American educator
- Libbie Beach Brown1858-1924American philanthropist, temperance activist
- Pavel Vasilievich Shkurkin1868-1943
- R. B. Albertson1859-1917American politician
- Stephen James Chadwick1863-1931American judge
- Thomas J. Humes1849-1904American politician
- Thomas Mercer1813-1898Judge, pioneer associated with the early history of Seattle
- Thomas W. Prosch1850-1915United States journalist, newspaper proprietor, and historian
- William H. Shoudy1830-1901Politician
- Agnes Lockhart Hughes1866-1942Poet, journalist, editor
- Carl Johanson1863-1933American football player and coach
- Charles Hiram Burnett, Sr.1847-1916American businessman
- Charles W. Turner1846-1907Lawyer in Seattle and Montana
- Eliza Ferry Leary1851-1935US-American politician's wife and author
- Enoch William Bagshaw1884-1930American football player and coach
- Gottlieb Burian1837-1902Founder of Burien, Washington, USA
- James H. Schack1871-1933American architect
- James Murray Colman1832-1906Scottish-American machinist
- John E. Carroll1877-1955
- R. E. French1856-1911American actor and manager
- Thaddeus Hanford1847-1892American newspaper editor
- Virginia McCarver1851-1915United States woman
- William McMicken1827-1899Surveyor General of Washington Territory (1873-86)
- William V. Rinehart1835-1918American soldier who served as a Union Army officer
- Alfred Lee Palmer1835-1914American lawyer
- Anna Claire Furth1874-1956
- Arthur Philip Heinze1864-1931Millionaire
- Arthur W. Barton1874-1949American photographer
- Cortlandt Mulcaster Taylor1833-1911
- Edward C. Roosen-Runge1910-1991German-American biologist
- Edwin Gardner Ames1856-1935Businessman from Washington, United States
- Eula Lillian Lee Merrill1871-1938
- Fred Furth1839-1898American politician, Mayor of Spokane 1889-1890
- Henry H. Dearborn1844-1909American real estate developer
- James B. Barton1881-1967American photographer
- James Mills Eagleson1894-1919Former University of Washington student and University YMCA leader who died during World War I
- James Tate Mason1882-1936American surgeon
- Jesse Barnum Hawley1847-1911Civil engineer
- Joseph Shippen1839-1923Judge, first president Harvard Club of Seattle
- Katherine Knox Fauntleroy Whittlesey1834-190623 May 1835 - 21 May 1906
- Manson Franklin Backus1853-1935American banker
- Mary Beekman Foulke1843-1916
- Masamichi Aikawa1931-2004Japanese parasitologist
- Myra Fairbanks Eells1805-1878American missionary
- Rolland Herschel Denny1851-1939Seattle heir
- Stephen Fowler Chadwick1894-1975American lawyer and politician
- Thomas James Macmurray1852-1918Minister, lawyer, printer, poet, author, editor
- William Bremer1863-1910
- William Renton1818-1891Seattle Millionaire
- Winlock William Miller1870-1964American lawyer (1870-1964); son of William Winlock Miller; member of the University of Washington Board of Regents, 1914-1926 and 1933-1957
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
- Grand Army of the Republic CemeterySeattle, WACemetery0.2 mi
- Calvary CemeterySeattle, WACatholic cemetery2.5 mi
- Mount Pleasant Cemetery520 West Raye Street, Seattle, WACemetery2.5 mi
- Hills of Eternity Cemetery520 West Raye Street, Seattle, WAJewish cemetery2.5 mi
- Fort Lawton Military CemeteryDiscovery Park Boulevard, Seattle, WACemetery4.7 mi
- Crown Hill Cemetery8712 12th Avenue Northwest, Seattle, WACemetery4.9 mi
- Evergreen Washelli CemeteryShoreline, WACemetery5.5 mi
- Bikur Cholim CemeteryShoreline, WAJewish cemetery5.6 mi
- Evergreen Park CemeteryShoreline, WACemetery5.8 mi
- Comet Lodge CemeteryColumbia City, WACemetery6.0 mi
Funeral homes near Lake View Cemetery
- Florence Henry Memorial Chapel1.1 miFuneral chapel · Seattle · (206) 682-1447
- People's Memorial Funeral Cooperative1.1 miFuneral home · Seattle
- Elemental Cremation & Burial1.3 miCremation provider · Seattle · (206) 357-1141
- Lundgren Monuments1.8 miMonument dealer · Seattle · (206) 910-2432
- The Co-op Funeral Home Of People's Memorial2.0 miFuneral home · Seattle · (206) 529-3800
- iMortuary2.3 miFuneral home · Seattle · (206) 429-5070
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