Resting Place Selected for Eliot Ness, Family
Forty years after his death, the “Untouchable” who brought Al Capone to justice will get a final resting place.
Amid a procession of police bagpipers as well as color and honor guards, the cremated remains of Eliot Ness will be dispersed over a lagoon in a cemetery where President Garfield and John D. Rockefeller are buried.
“Because of the generosity of the family, we are able to put him to rest in a public place, where people can remember him,” said Rebecca McFarland, a librarian who is organizing the Sept. 10 ceremony at Lake View Cemetery.
Ness’ family has kept his ashes since he died of a heart attack at age 54 in 1957. The remains of his third wife, Elizabeth, and their adopted son, Robert, will also be dispersed during the private ceremony.
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