Mount Olivet Cemetery (Wheat Ridge, Colorado)
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery operated by the Archdiocese of Denver. The cemetery is located at 12801 W. 44th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.History
Mount Olivet was consecrated on September 25, 1892. The primary Denver cemetery until that time had been Prospect Hill Cemetery, southeast of the city. In 1890 the city designated those grounds to be turned into a park. The Catholic section of Prospect Hill Cemetery was then named Mount Calvary Cemetery, and over time the Catholic Church moved most of the remains of those buried in the Mount Calvary Cemetery to Mount Olivet Cemetery, and sold the land back to the city in 1950. Today that land is part of Cheesman Park and the Denver Botanic Gardens.Notable burials
- Jacques Benedict, one of the most prominent architects in Colorado history
- May Bonfils Stanton, Colorado heiress and philanthropist
- Michael James Dempsey, American-born Catholic bishop in Nigeria
- William Gilpin, 1st Governor of the Territory of Colorado in 1861
- Jerry McMorris, former principal owner of the Colorado Rockies
- William H. McNichols, Jr., Denver Mayor 1968
- Verner Zevola Reed, Colorado pioneer and businessman
- Jack Swigert, Command Module Pilot aboard Apollo 13
- Baby Doe Tabor, flamboyant wife of Horace Tabor, and inspiration for the opera The Ballad of Baby Doe
- Horace Tabor, Colorado pioneer and businessman
- Urban John Vehr, First Archbishop of Denver in 1941
- Daniel Mauser, Matthew Kechter, Kelly Fleming, victims of the Columbine High School massacre
