Calvary Cemetery is a Catholic Church, Roman Catholic cemetery in Seattle, Washington (state), Washington, United States, located in the Ravenna, Seattle, Ravenna/Bryant, Seattle, Bryant neighborhood. Dedicated on December 1, 1889, it is situated on the southwest slope of a hill overlooking University Village, Seattle, University Village, about a mile (1.6 km) northeast of the University of Washington. It is owned and operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle, Archdiocese of Seattle.
Covering an area of , the square-shaped cemetery is bounded on the north by N.E. 55th Street, on the east by 35th Avenue N.E., on the south by N.E. 50th Street, and on the west by 30th Avenue N.E.
Around 40,000 people are buried in its grounds, including:
*Vivian E. Albertson, Bellevue School District director from 1982 to 1990
*Dave Beck, former president of the Teamsters
*George Burns (first baseman), "Tioga George" Burns, baseball player, the American League's Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award, most valuable player in 1926.
*John Cherberg, lieutenant governor for 32 years, UW football player and head coach
*Raymond E. Davis, Medal of Honor recipient in 1905
*Hec Edmundson, Washington Huskies men's basketball, basketball and track coach at the Washington Huskies, University of Washington
*Walter Galbraith, former president of Galbraith and Co. and director of Washington Mutual
*D. V. Graves, Tubby Graves, Washington Huskies baseball, baseball head coach at UW
*Michael James Heney, Michael J. "Moose" Heney, Alaskan railroad builder
*Al Hostak, middleweight boxer
*Jacob Nist, founder of Queen City Manufacturing Company, now the Seattle-Tacoma Box Company
*Edward Nordhoff, founder of The Bon Marché department store chain
*William Piggott, founder of Paccar
*Albert Rosellini, former governor
Additionally, Priesthood (Catholic Church), priests of the Archdiocese of Seattle and clergy from a number of religious orders are buried at the cemetery. There is one Commonwealth War Graves Commission, British Commonwealth war grave, of a Canadian Army soldier of World War I.
CWGC Casualty Record.
References
External links
Associated Catholic Cemeteries, Archdiocese of Seattle- Calvary Cemetery
Find a Grave: Calvary Cemetery
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Cemeteries in Seattle
Roman Catholic cemeteries in Washington (state)
Ravenna, Seattle
1889 establishments in Washington (state)
Cemeteries established in the 1880s