Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit, Michigan)

Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit, Michigan)

Woodlawn Cemetery is a cemetery in Detroit, Michigan.

Notable residents

*Renaldo Benson (1937-2005) - member of Motown's the Four Tops
*Roy D. Chapin (1880-1936) - industrialist and automaker
*Albert Cobo (1893-1957) - mayor
*Howard A. Coffin (1877-1956) - Congressman
*John Blaisdell Corliss (1851-1929)
*James J. Couzens (1872-1936)- Senator and mayor
*Edgar Culbertson (1935-1967) - U.S. Coast Guardsman Coast Guard Medal
*Horace Dodge (1868-1920) - John Francis Dodge's brother
*John Francis Dodge (1864-1920) - businessman
* George Duffield Jr. (1818-1888) - hymn author
* Dee Edwards (1945-2006) - singer
* Benson Ford (1919-1978) - Edsel's second son
*Edsel Ford (1893-1943) - Ford Company president
* Eleanor Clay Ford (1896-1976) - Edsel's wife
*C.L. Franklin (1915-1984) - Aretha's father
*Carolyn Franklin (1944-1988) - Aretha's sister
*Erma Franklin (1938-2002) - Aretha's sister
*Homer S. Ferguson (1889-1982) - Senator and diplomat
* Harvey Fruehauf (1893- 1968) - son of August Fruehauf
*Susie Garrett (1929-2002) - actress,star of Punky Brewster
* Albert Hatton Gilmer (1878-1950) - playwright
*Alex Groesbeck (1873-1953) - governor 1921-1927
*Edgar Guest (1881-1959) - poet
* Billy Henderson (1939-2007) - lead singer of The Spinners
* George M. Holley Sr. - automotive engineer and designer
*DeShaun Dupree "Proof" Holton (1973-2006)- rap musician
*J.L. Hudson (1846-1912) - department store magnate
*James Jamerson (1938-1983) - legendary Motown bass guitarist
*Marv Johnson (1938-1993) - Motown/R&B singer
*Ed Killian (1876-1928) - Major League baseball pitcher
*Alfred Lucking (1856-1929) - Congressman
* Lewis Albert Martin (1923-2005) - Jazz musician
*Wade H. McCree (1920-1987) - lawyer, judge, and U.S. general
*Blair Moody (1902-1954) - Senator
*Elijah E. Myers (1832-1909) - public building architect
*James K. Okubo (1920-1967) - World War II U.S. Army recipient for Medal of Honor
*Hazen Pingree (1840-1901) - Detroit mayor, Michigan governor
*Rosa Parks (1913-2005) - Civil Rights activist
*Edward Patten (1939-2005) - member of Gladys Knight and the Pips
*Lawrence Payton (1938-1997) - member of Motown's the Four Tops
* Barbara Randolph (1942-2002) - Motown/R&B singer
*David Ruffin (1941-1991) - lead singer of The Temptations
*George Washington Trendle (1884-1972) - creator of The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet
*Carl M. Weideman (1898-1972) - Congressman
*Ronald White (1938-1995) - member of Motown's The Miracles
* Richard Willis (1819-1900) - hymn musician
* Earl Wilson (1934-2005) - Major League baseball pitcher
*Ronald Winans (1956-2005) - Gospel singer

Sources

*Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, "Cemetery Sculpture in America", unpublished manuscript
*Nawrocki, Dennis Alan and Thomas J. Holleman, "Art in Detroit Public Places", Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan, 1980
*Northup, A. Dale, "Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery", Arcadia Publishing, 2003

External links

* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY5.html#R9T0XKEUI The Political Graveyard -- Politicians buried in Woodlawn Cemetery]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2003&CScn=Woodlawn+Cemetery&CScntry=4&CSst=24& Woodlawn Cemetery in Find A Grave]


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