Westview Cemetery - Famous Burials

Famous Burials

• The entire Adair Clan
• Ivan Allen Jr., Mayor of Atlanta
• Jim Bagby, Sr., the first pitcher to hit a home run in a modern World Series
• Asa Candler, businessman, owner of Coca-Cola
• Asa G. Candler, Jr., eccentric son of Asa Candler, Sr., big game hunter and aviation enthusiast
• Dolla (rapper), Rapper
• Hugh M. Dorsey, Governor of Georgia from 1917 to 1921.
• James Douglas Edgar, golfer, winner of the Canadian Open
• Keith Eubanks, radio and commercial voice-over artist
• Y. Frank Freeman, American film company executive for Paramount Pictures
• Henry W. Grady, journalist and orator
• L.P. Grant, for whom Grant Park is named.
• Joel Chandler Harris, newspaperman and author of "Uncle Remus"
• William Berry Hartsfield, Mayor of Atlanta
• the founders of furniture retailers Haverty's & Rhodes
• Alice Hawthorn, victim of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing
• Donald L. Hollowell, civil rights attorney
• Vivian Malone Jones, civil rights activist
• Ralph Emerson McGill, journalist and civil rights leader
• Arthur James Moore, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
• Isaac Newton Ragsdale, Mayor of Atlanta
• Frank Lebby Stanton, first poet laureate of Georgia, lyricist of "Just Awearyin' for You"
• Charles Davis Tillman, early influence on southern gospel music
• Robert Shaw, conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
• Rankin M. Smith, Sr., businessman, philanthropist & owner of Atlanta Falcons
• Robert Woodruff, businessman, President of Coca-Cola