The Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel is a funeral home located on

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at 81st Street in Manhattan. Founded in 1898 as Frank E. Campbell Burial and Cremation Company, the company is now owned by

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. The funeral home is known for staging many celebrity funerals including that of

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, Judy Garland, Joan Crawford, Heath Ledger,

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and Tommy Dorsey. Frank Campbell, the founder of the business, was born on July 4, 1872, in

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, Illinois. He moved to New York in about 1892, and married Amelia Klutz in 1898, setting himself up as an undertaker near Twenty-Third Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. His innovations in the business included the use of a funeral chapel, which he felt was preferable to having the services in the home of the deceased; advertising, which had previously been rare among undertakers, and the use of cars instead of horse-drawn carriages as

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. He died on January 19, 1934, of heart disease.

Notable funerals

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* Amsale Aberra * Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle * Elizabeth Arden (Florence Nightingale Graham) *

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* Arleen Auger * Antônio Carlos Jobim * Herman Badillo *

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* Irving Berlin *

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* Milt Caniff * Emilio Carranza *

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* Joan Crawford * Walter Cronkite *

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* Mario Cuomo * Candy Darling *

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* Dominick Dunne *

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* Geraldine Ferraro *

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* Greta Garbo * Judy Garland * George Gershwin *

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* Rita Hayworth * Heavy D * Leona Helmsley * Jim Henson * Philip Seymour Hoffman *

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* Peter Jennings *

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* Allyn King *

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* Ed Koch *

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* Héctor Lavoe * Mordecai Lawner * Heath Ledger * John Lennon *

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* Billy Martin * Bat Masterson * Ethel Merman *

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* Mary Tyler Moore *

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* Joan Rivers *

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* Jean Stapleton *

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* Ed Sullivan *

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* Nikola Tesla * John Timoney *

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* Fred Trump * Ivana Trump *

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* Mae West * Tennessee Williams * Li Yong

References

External links

* * Lopez, Molly
"Frank E. Campbell's Service to the Stars"
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