Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel

Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Funeral services
Founded	1898
Founder	Frank E. Campbell
Headquarters	New York City , United States
Parent	Service Corporation International

The Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel is a distinguished funeral home situated on Madison Avenue near 81st Street in Manhattan. Established in 1898 under the name Frank E. Campbell Burial and Cremation Company, it currently operates as a subsidiary of Service Corporation International. The firm has gained prominence for conducting funerals and memorial services for numerous notable figures, such as John Lennon, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Rudolph Valentino, Judy Garland, Heath Ledger, Aaliyah, and The Notorious B.I.G..

History

Frank E. Campbell, the founder, was born on July 4, 1872, in Camp Point, Illinois. Around 1892, he relocated to New York and by 1898 had launched his undertaking business in Manhattan. Campbell revolutionized funeral practices by introducing dedicated funeral chapels instead of traditional home services, employing advertising techniques that were rare among funeral directors at the time, and transitioning from horse-drawn hearses to motor vehicles. He passed away from heart disease on January 19, 1934.

Notable funerals and memorial services

• Aaliyah
• Amsale Aberra
• Elizabeth Arden
• Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
• Pedro Armendáriz, Jr.
• Arthur Ashe
• Isaac Asimov
• Arleen Auger
• Antônio Carlos Jobim
• Herman Badillo
• Lauren Bacall
• George Ballanchine
• Bernard Baruch
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Irving Berlin
• Peter Boyle
• Clare A. Briggs
• Yul Brynner
• Lord Buckley
• Anne Burrell
• James Cagney
• Milt Caniff
• Emilio Carranza
• Harry Carman
• Oleg Cassini
• Bennett Cerf
• Huguette Clark
• Montgomery Clift
• William Sloane Coffin
• George M. Cohan
• Frank Costello
• Joan Crawford
• Walter Cronkite
• Celia Cruz
• Mario Cuomo
• Candy Darling
• Jack Dempsey
• Thomas E. Dewey
• Dominick Dunne
• Jeanne Eagels
• Perry Ellis
• Geraldine Ferraro
• Marshall Field III
• Malcolm Forbes
• Greta Garbo
• John Garfield
• Judy Garland
• George Gershwin
• Ira Gershwin
• Lillian Gish
• Adam Goldstein
• Albert H. Gordon
• Lesley Gore
• Rocky Graziano
• Rex Harrison
• Rita Hayworth
• William Randolph Hearst, Jr.
• Heavy D
• Leona Helmsley
• Jim Henson
• Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Lena Horne
• Vladimir Horowitz
• Fannie Hurst
• Richard Isay
• Jacob Javits
• Peter Jennings
• Jiggly Caliente
• [ [Howard Deering Johnson]]
• [ [Madeline Kahn]]
• [ [George S. Kaufman]]
• [ [Kenneth Keating]]
• [ [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]]
• [ [Robert F. Kennedy]]
• [ [Dorothy Kilgallen]]
• [ [Robert Kibbee]]
• [ [Allyn King]]
• [ [Georgette Klinger]]
• [ [Ed Koch]]
• [ [Florence La Badie]]
• [ [Andrew A. Lanyi]]
• [ [Héctor Lavoe]]
• [ [Mordecai Lawner]]
• [ [Heath Ledger]]
• [ [John Lennon]]
• [ [Henry Cabot Lodge]]
• [ [Dick Lynch]]
• [ [Mary MacLeod Trump]]
• [ [Norman Mailer]]
• [ [Billy Martin]]
• [ [Bat Masterson]]
• [ [Graham McNamee]]
• [ [Ethel Merman]]
• [ [Anna Moffo]]
• [ [Mary Tyler Moore]]
• [ [The Notorious B.I.G.]]
• [ [Glenn O'Brien]]
• [ [Cardinal John O'Connor]]
• [ [Les Paul]]
• [ [James Cash Penney]]
• [ [Peter George Peterson]]
• [ [Ayn Rand]]
• [ [Tony Randall]]
• [ [Charles Revson]]
• [ [John Ringling]]
• [ [Joan Rivers]]
• [ [Richard Roundtree]]
• [ [L'Wren Scott]]
• [ [Bishop Fulton J. Sheen]]
• [ [Willi Smith]]
• [ [Jean Stapleton]]
• [ [Igor Stravinsky]]
• [ [Ed Sullivan]]
• [ [Robert A. Taft ]]
• [ [Cecil Taylor ]]
• [ [Nikola Tesla ]]
• [ [John Timoney (police officer) ]]
• [ [Ernst Toller ]]
• [ [Arturo Toscanini ]]
• [ [Fred Trump ]]
• [ [Ivana Trump ]]
• [ [Rudolph Valentino ]]
• [ [Luther Vandross ]]
• [ [Robert F. Wagner ]]
• [ [Jimmy Walker ]]
• [ [Richard Watts Jr.] ]
• [ [Mae West ]]
• [ [Tennessee Williams ]]
• [ [Frank Woolworth ]]
• [ [Li Yong (television host) ]]