Funeral and Memorials
Rizzo's funeral was large, with tens of thousands of people lining the streets of the motorcade from the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul to the cemetery. He was interred at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. There was no funeral larger than Rizzo's in the history of Philadelphia. people lined the streets 5 deep fro the Cathedral to the cemetery in Cheltenham. They came in mass numbers, young old, white, black, Hispanic, with one thing in common, the city of Philadelphia would never be the same.
A statue of Mayor Rizzo waving one of his arms in greeting, created by Zeno Frudakis, stands in front of Philadelphia's Municipal Services Building. The 10-foot-high statue was paid for by contributions from Rizzo's family, friends, and supporters. Also, in his stronghold neighborhood of South Philadelphia, where he received a great deal of Italian-American support, a mural portrait of Rizzo is located on the 9th Street Italian Market.
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