Calvary Cemetery (Seattle)
- Calvary Cemetery (Seattle)
Calvary Cemetery is a 40-acre (162,000 m²) cemetery located in the Ravenna/Bryant neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA, on the southwest slope of a hill overlooking University Village. It was dedicated on December 1, 1889.
The cemetery, which is square-shaped, 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.
Among the 40,000 buried there are William Piggott, who founded PACCAR; Dave Beck, former president of the Teamsters; Jacob Nist, founder of Queen City Manufacturing Company, now the Seattle-Tacoma Box Company; and Walter Galbraith, former president of Galbraith and Co. and director of Washington Mutual.
External links
* [http://www.acc-seattle.org/calvarycemetery.htm Associated Catholic Cemeteries, Archdiocese of Seattle]
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