Fairview Cemetery (Westfield, New Jersey)

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Phone +1 908-232-0781
Address 1100 E Broad St, Westfield, NJ 07090, USA Burials Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Austen Crehore, Claydes Charles Smith, Stella Weaver, John Russell Similar Hillside Cemetery, Rosedale Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery & Cremat, St Gertrude Cemetery, Rosedale Cemetery

Fairview Cemetery is a cemetery in Westfield, New Jersey.

The cemetery was founded in 1868 and is 105 acres. It is "non-sectarian, non-profit organization, owned and operated solely for the benefit of its Property Owners."

Notable burials

Virginia Apgar (1909–1974), founder of Neonatology and the Apgar score

Charles Newell Fowler (1922–1989), Congressman

Whitney Houston (1963–2012), singer, actress, beside her father John Russell Houston, who died in 2003

Bobbi Kristina Brown (1993–2015), buried next to her mother Whitney Houston.

1971 murder victims of John Emil List (Frederick List, Helen List, Patricia List)

Claydes Charles Smith (1948–2006), co-founder of Kool & the Gang

William Miller Sperry, namesake of the William Miller Sperry Observatory and brother of Thomas Sperry.

Joshua Bryant (law enforcement) (1852–1898) was Cranford, New Jersey's first African-American law enforcement officer and the township's first African-American person to hold elective office.

References

Fairview Cemetery (Westfield, New Jersey) Wikipedia

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