Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York)

The Gate of Heaven Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, about 25 kilometers north of New York City, It was opened in 1917 on the West Stevens Avenue. Among the famous people who are buried here, is the baseball player Babe Ruth, whose grave has an epitaph by Cardinal Francis Spellman and the constantly by the resignation of baseball balls, rackets and hats honor is erweiesen. In addition to some other baseball players and athletes and three former mayor of New York City and other politicians are buried here. Adjacent to the Garden Mausoleum is a station of the Metro North Railroad, on which four trains a day, two for each direction.

Buried personalities (selection)

  • Robert Abplanalp (1922-2003), inventor of the spray
  • Fred Allen (1894-1956), actor
  • Heywood Broun (1888-1939), journalist
  • Charles A. Buckley (1890-1967), Congressman
  • James Cagney (1899-1986), actor and his wife, Billie (1899-1994)
  • Bob Considine (1906-1975), writer
  • Paul Dixon (1918-1974), TV and radio entertainer
  • Bella Dodd (1904-1969), communist and anti-communist activist later
  • Jessica Dragonette (1900-1980), singer
  • James Farley (1888-1976), postmaster general and adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Hector Guimard (1867-1942), architect and prominent exponent of Art Nouveau in France
  • Julie Haydon (1910-1994), actress
  • Anna Held (1872-1918), actress
  • Bess Houdini (1876-1943), wife of Harry Houdini
  • G. Murray Hulbert (1881-1950), Congressman
  • Ethel D. Jacobs (1910-2001), racehorse owner
  • Peggy Hopkins Joyce (1893-1957), actress
  • Arthur Judson (1881-1975), co-founder of CBS
  • Dorothy Kilgallen (1913-1965), journalist
  • Thomas F. Leahy (1937-2002), president of CBS Television
  • T. Vincent Learson (1912-1996), Chairman of IBM
  • Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963), composer and lyricist
  • James J. Lyons (1890-1966), Borough President of the Bronx from 1934 to 1962
  • Tim Mara (1887-1959), founder of the New York Giants
  • Wellington Mara (1916-2005), owner of the New York Giants
  • Billy Martin (1928-1989), player and manager in Major League Baseball
  • Malachi Martin (1921-1999), writer
  • Pat McDonald (1871-1954), Olympic champion in the shot put in 1912 and in the weight throwing 1920
  • Joseph V. McKee, a member of the New York Assembly and mayor of New York City
  • John McSherry (1944-1996), umpire in Major League Baseball
  • Sal Mineo (1939-1976), actor
  • Condé Montrose Nast (1873-1942), publisher
  • George Jean Nathan (1882-1958), theater critic
  • Elliott Nugent (1896-1980), actor, director and screenwriter
  • John P. O'Brien (1873-1951), Mayor of New York City
  • Richard W. O'Neill (1898-1986), carriers of the Medal of Honor from the First World War
  • Fulton Oursler (1893-1952), writer
  • Westbrook Pegler (1894-1969), journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prizes
  • Mike Quill (1905-1966), founder of the Transport Workers Union of America
  • Dan Reeves (1912-1971), owner of the NFL clubs Cleveland / Los Angeles Rams
  • Babe Ruth (1895-1948), recorded in the Hall of Fame baseball player
  • Dutch Schultz (1902-1935), Mobster
  • Charles M. Schwab (1862-1939), steel magnate (later the St. Michael Cemetery, Loretto, Pennsylvania transferred )
  • Arnold Skaaland (1925-2007), professional wrestler
  • Spyros Skouras (1893-1971), President of 20th Century Fox
  • James H. Torrens (1874-1952), politician
  • Jimmy Walker (1881-1946), Mayor of New York City
  • William B. Widnall (1906-1983), Congressman
  • Malcolm Wilson (1914-2000), Governor of New York
  • Sal Yvars (1924-2008), baseball player

Photo Gallery

Main entrance

Shrine at the grave of Babe Ruth

The Gothic Bridge

Saint Francis of Assisi Chapel

Frieze at the entrance of the Queen of Peace Mausoleum

Statue at Upper Entrance

The Receiving Tomb

Pat McDonald (athlete) Loretto (Pennsylvania)
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