Lake View Cemetery (Seattle)

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Lake View Cemetery is a private cemetery located in Seattle, Washington, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, just north of Volunteer Park. Known as "Seattle's Pioneer Cemetery," it is run by an independent, non-profit association. It was founded in 1872 as the Seattle Masonic Cemetery and later renamed for its view of Lake Washington to the east.

Lake View Cemetery
Nisei War Memorial, Lake View Cemetery
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Established1872
Location
CountryUS
Coordinates47°38′02″N 122°18′55″W / 47.63389°N 122.31528°W / 47.63389; -122.31528
TypePrivate, non-profit
Owned byLake View Cemetery Association
Size40 acres (16 ha)
No. of graves40,000
Find a Grave76890

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Graves of Bruce and Brandon Lee

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United Confederate Veterans Memorial

Lake View includes the Nisei War Memorial Monument, a 21-foot column erected in 1949, listing the names of 47 Japanese American soldiers from Seattle who were killed during World War II.[14][15] The Nisei Veterans Committee, in response to the US Army's plans in late 1947 to return Washington's Nisei war dead, began a door-to-door fundraising campaign in the Puget Sound region, collecting donations of $1 to $5, and raising over $10,000 to construct the memorial.[15] Later, 9 more names of Seattle area service members of Japanese ancestry killed in Korea, Vietnam and Granada were added to names on the memorial.[15]

The cemetery has a memorial to Confederate veterans erected in 1926 by Seattle's chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, near the site of 11 graves, the only burial ground in the Northwest of Confederate soldiers.[16][17] During the 2020 George Floyd protests, the memorial was toppled by unknown persons on July 3, 2020. It had been criticized by protestors, and targeted with vandalism and graffiti in recent years.[18]

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  1. ^ Bellamy-Walker, Tat (July 20, 2023). "Family, fans remember Bruce Lee 50 years after his death". The Seattle Times. Retrieved July 24, 2023. On the 50th anniversary of his death, Bruce Lee's widow, Linda Lee Cadwell, talks with Joseph Peranzi of the Jun Fan Gung Fu Academy during a gathering at Lake View Cemetery in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
  2. ^ Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee (Lake View Cemetery Association)
  3. ^ a b Terry Richard (December 10, 2013), "Seattle graves of Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Lee draw visitors still feeling the loss", The Oregonian, Portland
  4. ^ Davis et al. 2008, p. 206.
  5. ^ Shannon 2008, p. 119.
  6. ^ Rhoads 2017.
  7. ^ "Top 10 Celebrity Grave Sites: #2, Bruce Lee", Time, 3 September 2009
  8. ^ Jim Caple (May 26, 2016). "Bruce Lee". Grave Matters. ESPN.
  9. ^ Williams 2017.
  10. ^ Kidder & Onstott 2004, p. 21.
  11. ^ Sainsbury & Brash 2017.
  12. ^ Tan Vinh (October 29, 2009), "On Day of the Dead, visit local grave sites of the famous and infamous", The Seattle Times
  13. ^ Henry, Mary T. (10 August 2011), "Yee, Amy Woo (1922–2000)", HistoryLink
  14. ^ Shannon 2008, p. 11.
  15. ^ a b c Tsuboi, Tony (May 2013), "Nisei War Memorial Monument", Nisei Veterans Committee Newsletter, 63 (5), Nisei Veterans Committee
  16. ^ Clarridge, Christine (August 16, 2017), "Seattle's own monument to the Confederacy was erected on Capitol Hill in 1926 – and it's still there", The Seattle Times
  17. ^ McNerthney, Casey (August 17, 2017), "Why is a Confederate memorial in Seattle? A Q and A about its creation", KIRO-TV
  18. ^ "Huge Confederate monument toppled at Seattle's Lake View Cemetery". KOMO News. July 4, 2020. Retrieved July 4, 2020.

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