Actor james cagney biography wikipedia
James cagney jr.
Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York)
Cemetery in Westchester County
"Gate of Heaven Cemetery" redirects here.
Actor james cagney biography wikipedia
For other uses, see Gate of Heaven Cemetery (disambiguation).
Gate of Heaven Cemetery, approximately 25 miles (40 km) north of New York City, was established in 1917 at 10 West Stevens Ave.
in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, as a Catholic burial site. Among its famous residents is baseball player Babe Ruth, whose grave has an epitaph by Cardinal Francis Spellman and is almost always adorned by many baseballs, bats and caps.
Adjacent to the Garden Mausoleum is a small train station of the Metro-North Railroad Harlem Division named Mount Pleasant, where four trains stop daily, two northbound and two southbound. Several baseball players are buried here.
Notable interments
- Robert Abplanalp (1922–2003), inventor of the aerosol spray valve
- Fred Allen (1894–1956), actor and comedian
- Mario Biaggi (1917–2015), decorated policeman and US C