Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit, Michigan)

Dodge Brothers Mausolem

Woodlawn Cemetery is a cemetery in Detroit, Michigan.

[edit] 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
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

Haass Monument by Charles Keck

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) - Jazz musician
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) - 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

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

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