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Phone
  
+1 914-478-1767

Westchester Hills Cemetery

Address
  
400 Saw Mill River Rd, Hastings-On-Hudson, NY 10706, USA

Hours
  
Closed today SaturdayClosedSunday8AM–4PMMonday8AM–4PMTuesday8AM–4PMWednesday8AM–4PMThursday8AM–2PMFriday9AM–5PMSuggest an edit

Burials
  
George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Judy Holliday

The Westchester Hills Cemetery is at 400 Saw Mill River Road in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, approximately 20 miles north of New York City. It is a Jewish cemetery, and many well-known entertainers and performers are interred there. It contains the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue cemetery.

Notable interments

  • Barricini family, boxed candy makers
  • Charles E. Bloch (1927–2006), President Bloch Publishing Company
  • Ilka Chase (1900–1978), actress and novelist
  • Mischa Elman (1891–1967), violinist
  • I. J. Fox, furrier
  • Captain George Fried (1877–1949), won Navy Cross for rescue of ships Antinoe, and Florida
  • Stanley P. Friedman (1925–2006), writer
  • John Garfield (1913–1952), actor
  • George Gershwin (1898–1937), composer
  • Ira Gershwin (1896–1983), lyricist
  • Jonah Goldman (1906–1980), baseball player
  • Ben Grauer (1908–1977), television and radio personality
  • Guggenheim family, founders of the Guggenheim Museum
  • Sidney Hillman (1887–1946), first president of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
  • Judy Holliday (1921–1965), actress
  • Allyn King (1899–1930), Broadway actress and former Ziegfeld Follies performer
  • Richard Lindner (1901–1976), German-American painter
  • Lucille Lortel (1900–1999), actress and producer
  • Arnold Newman (1918–2006), photographer
  • Roberta Peters (1930–2017), opera singer
  • Tony Randall (1920–2004), actor
  • Max Reinhardt (1873–1943), producer and director
  • Billy Rose (1899–1966), Broadway producer
  • A. M. Rosenthal (1922–2006), Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
  • Robert Rossen (1908–1966), motion picture director and screenwriter
  • Ron Silver (1946–2009), American actor, director, and producer
  • Lee Strasberg (1901–1982), actor-teacher
  • Paula Strasberg (1909–1966), actress-teacher
  • Irving Sturm (1932–2010), founder of Iridium Jazz Club and Ellen's Stardust Diner
  • Maxine Sullivan (1911–1987), American jazz vocalist and performer
  • David Susskind (1920–1987), Emmy award winning producer
  • Laurence Tisch (1923–2003), head of CBS and co-founder of Loews, brother of Preston
  • Preston Robert Tisch (1926–2005), financier and business magnate, brother of Laurence
  • Rabbi Stephen Wise (1874–1949), religious leader

    • References

    Westchester Hills Cemetery Wikipedia
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