Westchester Hills Cemetery

The main office of Westchester Hills Cemetery

The Westchester Hills Cemetery, approximately 20 miles north of New York City, was established at 400 Saw Mill River Road in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York. It welcomes the burial of Christians and Jews, and many well-known entertainers and performers are interred there. It contains both Mount Hope and the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue cemeteries.

Notable burials

• Barricini family, boxed candy makers
• Charles E. Bloch (1927-2006), President Bloch Publishing Company
• Mischa Elman (1891-1967), violinist
• I. J. Fox, furrier
• Stanley P. Friedman, writer
• John Garfield (1913-1952), actor
• George Gershwin (1898-1937), composer
• Ira Gershwin (1896-1983), lyrical composer
• Ben Grauer (1908-1977), television and radio personality
• Guggenheim family, founders of the Guggenheim Museum
• Sidney Hillman (1887-1946), first president of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
• Judy Holliday (1921-1965), actress
• Jack Klugman (1922-), actor (future burial site)^{[citation needed]}
• Lucille Lortel (1900-1999), actress and producer
• Arnold Newman (1918-2006), photographer
• Tony Randall (1920-2004), actor
• Max Reinhardt (1873-1943),producer-director
• Billy Rose (1899-1966), Broadway producer
• A. M. Rosenthal (1922-2006), Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
• Robert Rossen (1908-1966), motion picture director and screenwriter
• Lee Strasberg (1901-1982), actor-teacher
• Paula Strasberg (1909-1966), actress-teacher
• David Susskind (1920-1987), Emmy award winning producer
• Laurence Tisch (1923-2003), head of CBS and co-founder of Loews
• Preston Robert Tisch (1926-2005), financier and business magnate
• Rabbi Stephen Wise (1874-1949), religious leader

External links

• Westchester Hills Cemetery at FindAGrave.com
• Mount Hope Cemetery Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York (select list of burials) (at: interment.net)