Calvary Cemetery is a cemetery located in

Tacoma, Washington Tacoma ( ) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, Washington, Olympia, and northwest of Mount ...

. It is the only Catholic cemetery in Tacoma. Its size is . Calvary Cemetery was incorporated in October, 1905. It was founded because Pioneer Catholic Cemetery was filling up and a new cemetery was needed. Prior to 1905, the cemetery was known as Rigney Cemetery. Persons of note buried here are

Pip Koehler Horace Levering "Pip" Koehler (January 16, 1902 – December 8, 1986) was a Major League Baseball outfielder and professional basketball player. Baseball Koehler played only one season (1925) with the New York Giants. He was a small athlete at ...

, a baseball player, and Dorothy Olsen, who was a member of the

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which was established in

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and

LaVerne H. Bates LaVerne H. Bates (also known as Verne Bates or L.H. Bates) (1904-1982) was an educator, printer, public official and early director and namesake of Bates Technical College in Tacoma, Washington. LaVerne Hazen Bates was born on May 9, 1904, in Washi ...

, namesake of

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. Also buried here is Ralph

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(1887–1961). Chaplin was an American writer, artist , and labor activist. Chaplin became active in the

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(the IWW, or "Wobblies") and may be best known as the author of the labor anthem, “

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”. The cemetery contains one British Commonwealth war grave, of a

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officer of World War II.
CWGC Casualty Record.

References

Cemeteries in Washington (state) Roman Catholic cemeteries in the United States Protected areas of Pierce County, Washington Geography of Tacoma, Washington {{PierceCountyWA-geo-stub