Mount Olivet Cemetery (Detroit)

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Phone +1 800-989-5650
Address 17100 Van Dyke, Detroit, MI 48234, USA Hours Open today · 9AM–4:30PMMonday9AM–4:30PMTuesday9AM–4:30PMWednesday9AM–4:30PMThursday9AM–4:30PMFriday9AM–4:30PMSaturday9AM–4PMSundayClosed Burials Tom Tyler, Jerry Buckley, Thomas Patrick Thornton, Albert Fisher

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Mount Olivet Cemetery is a cemetery at 17100 Van Dyke Avenue in the city of Detroit in Wayne County, Michigan. It opened in 1888 and is owned and operated by the Mount Elliott Cemetery Association, a not-for-profit Catholic organization. At 320 acres (130 ha), it is the largest cemetery in Detroit, although it no longer promotes itself publicly as a Roman Catholic institution.

Notables

U.S. Senator Patrick Vincent McNamara (D-MI).

U.S. Representative Louis Charles Rabaut (D-MI)

U.S. Representative Clarence J. McLeod (R-MI)

U.S. Representative John Lesinski, Sr. (D-MI)

U.S. Representative George D. O'Brien (D-MI)

U.S. Representative George Gregory Sadowski (D-MI)

U.S. Representative Robert Henry Clancy(D-MI)

U.S. Representative Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz (D-MI)

Jimmy Barrett, Major League Baseball player

Jerry Buckley, radio journalist; led the recall of Mayor Charles Bowles in 1930

Salvatore Catalanotte, leader of Detroit Cosa Nostra family and Unione Siciliane

Leo Diegel, professional golfer, winner of PGA Championship in 1928 and 1929

Joe Lafata, Major League Baseball player, New York Giants (1947–1949)

Judge Thomas Patrick Thornton

Tom Tyler, actor

Maurice Van Robays, Major League baseball player

Joseph Zerilli, leader of Detroit Cosa Nostra family

The cemetery contains 3 British Commonwealth war graves, a Royal Air Force Cadet and two Canadian soldiers, of World War I.

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Mount Olivet Cemetery (Detroit) Wikipedia

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