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The upper entrance to Gate of Heaven Cemetery

The new indoor building of Our Lady Queen of Peace Mausoleum

Saint Francis of Assisi Chapel and Garden Mausoleum

The Gothic Bridge at Gate of Heaven Cemetery

The Gate of Heaven Cemetery, approximately 25 miles north of New York City, was established in 1917 at 10 West Stevens Ave. in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York as a Roman Catholic burial site. Amongst its famous residents is baseball immortal Babe Ruth, whose grave has an epitaph by Francis Cardinal Spellman and is almost always adorned by a large number of baseballs, bats, and caps.

Some of the notables interred here are:

• Fred Allen (1894-1956), comic
• Anton Bilotti (1906-1963), composer, author
• Heywood Broun (1888-1939), journalist, author
• James Cagney (1899-1986), Academy Award winning actor
• Emil A. Ciccotelli (1929-1998), NYPD Chief of Detectives
• Bob Considine (1906-1975), journalist, author
• James Farley (1888-1976), Postmaster General and advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Frank Hardart (1884-1972), founder of Horn & Hardart automat
• Julie Haydon (1910-1994), actress
• Anna Held (1872-1918), actress, singer
• Claire Merritt Hodgson (1900-1976), wife of Babe Ruth
• Bess Houdini (1876-1943), wife of Harry Houdini
• G. Murray Hulbert (1881-1950), United States Representative from New York
• Dorothy Kilgallen (1913-1965), journalist, television personality
• T. Vincent Learson (1912-1996), IBM chairman, Ambassador at Large for Law of the Sea Matters
• Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963), composer and songwriter
• James J. Lyons (1890-1966), Bronx Borough President from 1934-1962
• Wellington Mara (1916-2005), owner of NFL New York Giants
• Billy Martin (1928-1989), Major League Baseball player/manager
• John McSherry (1944-1996), Major League Baseball umpire
• Sal Mineo (1939-1976), actor
• Condé Nast (1873-1942), publisher
• George Jean Nathan (1882-1958), drama critic
• Fulton Oursler (1893-1952), writer
• Westbrook Pegler (1894-1969), Pulitzer prizer winning journalist
• Mike Quill (1905-1966), founder of Transport Workers Union of America
• Babe Ruth (1895-1948), Hall of Fame baseball player
• Dutch Schultz (1902-1935), mobster
• Lisa Steinberg (1981-1987), child murder victim
• James H. Torrens(1874-1952), politician
• Jimmy Walker (1881-1946), mayor of New York City
• Malcolm Wilson (1914-2000), Governor of New York
• Peter Carroll (1911-2001), FDNY Battalion Chief
• Mark J. Coyle (1965-2007), Noted Political Consultant

• Gate of Heaven Cemetery on FindAGrave.com
• Gate of Heaven Cemetery on Interment.net