Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Harry Houdini (24 Mar 1874–31 Oct 1926), Find a Grave Memorial no. A system error has occurred. If you have questions, please contact Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person.You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. Because she was raised Catholic and Machpelah is … Entered on Cypress Hills Avenue.

Houdini's widow, Bess, died of a heart attack on February 11, 1943, aged 67, in Needles, California while on a train en route from Los Angeles to New York City. When his father took him to see a traveling magician, his interest in magic and in performing took off, and shortly after his family moved to New York City, he began to study magic.

At least we should have done this before we became too sophisticated for such grave undertakings.Is the cemetery still open to the public? Odds are he’ll lose his head again—even though it’s screwed on. Were they famous like Houdini, or an iron worker known only to family & friends? After a successful tour of Europe, the couple returned home in 1905 and bought a brownstone in Manhattan.

When his father took him to see a traveling magician, his interest in magic and in performing took off, and shortly after his family moved to New York City, he began to study magic. In 1928 medium Arthur Ford announced that he had a message for Bess from Houdini's mother which consisted of a single word; ‘forgive.' Houdini left a large sum of money for the organization in his will.
I do not believe that Houdini can come back to me - or to anyone....It is finished. All photos uploaded successfully, click on the Done button to see the photos in the gallery. Lucky to find a cemetery worker who gladly showed me where the grave is. But it was the older Houdini brother, Harry, that she fell in love with and married on June 22, 1894. They even gave us the keys to the gate of the cemetery and allowed us to stay late until we finished.im larry in johnstown lotta history here to ty for the great information on houdiniHi Dick, I based that line off of a City Room article that says, “though they operated in broad daylight, they did so without alerting the cemetery or the magicians’ society.” I’ll revise this to make the distinction that you did eventually get the approval.Houdini’s grave has been in such bad condition because of it being abandoned by The Society of American Magicians who used to pay a small and bargained down fee for upkeep. The only spouse however that was accorded a grave was Bess Houdini. Bess’s niece, Marie Hinson Blood, said Bess suffered from a medical condition that prevented her from having children.After Houdini died on October 31, 1926, Bess opened a tea house in New York, and briefly performed a vaudeville act in which she froze a man in ice. When he was about 8 years old, he sold newspapers and worked as a bootblack to help support his poor family. In 1943 she said “ten years [was] long enough to wait for any man.” After the 1936 séance, Bess passed the torch to Walter B. Gibson writer of the famous mystery series “The Shadow” and friend, confidant, publicist and ghost writer for Houdini, and asked him to carry on the yearly tribute, who held them for many years at New York’s Magic Towne House with such magical notables as Houdini biographers Walter B. Gibson and Milbourne Christopher. Her family would not allow her to be interred with her late husband at the Machpelah Cemetery in Queens, New York as she had been raised a Roman Catholic.
She was not permitted to rest beside her husband at the Machpelah Jewish Cemetery in Queens, but is buried at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York. We have emailed an activation email to .

The Houdinis remained childless throughout their marriage. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer.Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab.

Cypress Hills and Evergreen Cemeteries are nearby and date back to the 1840’s.

Finally George Schindler, a former President, stopped payment completely. My last hope is gone.

Bess Houdini was working at Coney Island in a song and dance act called The Floral Sisters when she was first courted by Houdini’s younger brother, Theo (aka Theodore Hardeen). We were stopped as we were putting in the bust at about 1:15 PM by the guard who was passing by. Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner, better known as Bess Houdini, was an American stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini. If you have questions, please contact Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person.You need to confirm this account before you can sign in.

After the death of her mother-in-law in 1913, Bess and Harry became deeply involved with the then popular spiritualist movement, often debunking frauds. Before he died, Walter passed on the tradition  to Dorothy Dietrich, who now does them yearly at the Houdini Museum in Scranton, PA. Bess Houdini died from a heart attack on February 11, 1943 while in Needles, California, aboard an eastbound train traveling from Los Angeles to New York City.

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