Notable Interments
- Thomas Edward Burnett, Jr, United Airlines Flight 93 passenger.
- Bob Casey, baseball announcer.
- Frank Eugene Hook, US Congressman, World War I veteran.
- Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, known as "Father of modern day Open-Heart Surgery."
- Ernest Lundeen, US Congressman.
- John Mariucci, hockey coach, member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame.
- Bruce P. Smith, 1941 football player, Heisman Trophy winner.
- Corporal Charles W. Lindberg, last surviving member of the Marines who flag raised the flag on Iwo Jima during World War II.
- Major Tim Vakoc, US Army Chaplain mortally wounded in Mosul during the Iraq War.
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Famous quotes containing the word notable:
“a notable prince that was called King John;
And he ruled England with main and with might,
For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.”
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 2–4)