Westwood Cemetery
26248 Michigan Avenue
Inkster, MI 48141
Wayne County

The Westwood Cemetery, created in 1915, is part of the Harmoreau Cemetery Association and Congregation Mishkan Israel. The name is derived from an informal name, that area residents at the time, used to refer to the community. It is mainly a Jewish cemetery, located at 26248 Michigan Avenue in Inkster, which is East of Inkster Road. It is narrow with a small frontage on Michigan Ave, however, stretches back to the bank of the Rouge River. The first burial was Iridor Lerner, who died July 26 1925 at the age of 29 years.
There is no sexton office, however there are burials that have taken place recently. It is well kept and most every stone is readable.  There are a total of 144 stone transcribed below by: Linda Ball, it is a partial transcription of the cemetery site.

APPLEBAUM, Geraldine "beloved wife & sister" died August 17, 1991 "aged 58yrs"

ABRAMOVITZ, Minnie "wife - sister" born December 7, 1909 died November 28, 1987
ABRAMOVITZ, Jack born March 7, 1909 died November 14, 1995

BEIGLER, Frank "beloved husband - fahter" died December 20, 1941 "aged 76yrs"
BEIGLER, Anna "beloved wife - mother" died May 6, 1953 "aged 83yrs"

BESTERMAN, Etta "beloved wife - mother" died June 6, 1941 "aged 57yrs" *picture on stone*
BESTERMAN, Louis "beloved husband - father" died December 31, 1949 "aged 73yrs" *picture on stone*
BESTERMAN, Dr. Albert W. "beloved husband - father" died October 24, 1970 "aged 62yrs" *picture on stone*

BURSTEIN *nothing more*

BORDELOVE, William "beloved husband - father - grandfather" died October 2, 1980 "aged 82yrs
BORDELOVE, Sarah "beloved mother" died June 17, 1947 "aged 76yrs"
BORDELOVE, Abraham "beloved husband - father" died November 17, 1943 "aged 76yrs"

BARSHTZ, Samuel died January 20, 1998 "aged 97yrs"
*There is a base without a stone in the Barshtz site*

BIEGEL, "beloved husband-father" died October 1, 1947 "aged 76yrs"
BIEGEL, Eva "beloved mother" died February 4, 1952 "aged 74yrs"

BRILLIANT, Jack "beloved husband-father" died August 7, 1968 "aged 65yrs"
BRILANT, Bessie "beloved wife-mother" died September 2, 1967 "aged 83yrs"
BRILANT, Louis "beloved husband-father" died May 24, 1935 "aged 56yrs"
BRILLIANT, Joseph B. "beloved husband-father" died February 14, 1965 "aged 59yrs"

BERTUCH, Hyman "beloved father" died October 26, 1942 "aged 76yrs"

BOKOLOR, Nathan "beloved husband-father" died January 20, 1972 "aged 77yrs"
BOKOLOR, Eva "beloved wife-mother" died February 27, 1966 "aged 70yrs"

BARACH, Jacob "beloved father-brother-uncle" died March 23, 1979 "aged 80yrs"

COHEN, Harry "beloved son" died June 28, 1918 "aged 5yrs" *picture on stone*
COHEN, Harry "beloved father" died February 16, 1947 "aged 75yrs"
COHEN, Rebecca "beloved mother" died April 17, 1943 "aged 75yrs"
COHEN, Anna "beloved wife - mother" died December 15, 1958 "aged 95yrs"
COHEN, Isadore "beloved husband - father" died October 15, 1955 "aged 89yrs"
COHEN, Jacob "beloved father" died July 4, 1939 "aged 61yrs"
COHEN, Yetta "beloved wife-mother" died October 22, 1971 "aged 84yrs"
COHEN, Abe "beloved father-grandfather" died March 5, 1973 "aged 83yrs"

COOPER, Samuel "beloved husband-father" died February 27, 1952 "aged 78yrs"
COOPER, Celia "belovef wife-mother" died September 5, 1943

DORFMAN, Morris "beloved husband - father" 1877 - 1938
DORFMAN, Eva "beloved wife - mother" 1882 - 1972
DORFMAN, Abraham "beloved husband and father" died May 6, 1937 "aged 57yrs"
DORFMAN, Eva "beloved wife and mother" died May 17, 1955 "aged 68yrs"

DUBIN, Yetta "beloved wife mother grandmother greatgrandmother" died September 7, 1998 "aged 85yrs"
DUBIN, Sam "beloved husband and father" died September 16, 1962 "aged 50yrs"

ESKOW, Sarah "beloved wife mother grandmother greatgrandmother" born July 15, 1904 died January 16, 1985
ESKOW, Tobias S. "beloved husband father" died October 31, 1951 "aged 51yrs"

FELDMAN, Morris "beloved brother - uncle" died February 22, 1968 "aged 64yrs"
FELDMAN, Dave "beloved husband - father - grandfather" died August 3, 1997 "aged 86yrs"
FELDMAN, Anne "beloved mother - grandmother" died January 14, 1952 "aged 81yrs"
FELDMAN, Nathan "beloved husband - father" died December 11, 1944 "aged 78yrs"

GAMBURD, Harry "beloved husband" "devoted father & grandfather" died June 10, 1961 "aged 79yrs"
GAMBURD, Eva "beloved wife" "devoted mother and grandmother" died May 13, 1974 "aged 83yrs"
GAMBURD, George L. "beloved brother - uncle" died June 18, 1989 "aged 66yrs"
GAMBURD Dorothy 1914 - 2000

GLUCK, Jennie "beloved sister" died November 13, 1916 "aged 18yrs"

GOLDFARB, Dora "beloved mother - grandmother" died February 2, 1959 "aged 75yrs"

GINSBERG-WEITZMAN, "beloved wife - sister: died October 15, 1955 "aged 46yrs"
GINSBERG, William "beloved husband" died October 18, 1949 "aged 53yrs"

GOLDBERG, Pearl "beloved wife-mother-grandmother-greatgrandmother" born April 17, 1905 died February 7, 1996

GOLD, Marilyn "darling daughter" born September 24, 1936 died March 30, 1939
GOLD, Harold "husband - father" died February 6, 1960 "aged 45yrs"
GOLD, Fay "wife-mother-grandmother" died January 5, 1994 "aged 81yrs"

GOLDSTEIN, Yetta "beloved wife-mother-grandmother" died March 10, 1975 "aged 82yrs"
GOLDSTEIN, Sol "beloved husband-father-grandfather" died January 31, 1939 "aged 53yrs"

GOOK, Abraham D. "beloved husband-father" died March 10, 1978 "aged 88yrs"
GOOK, Sophia "beloved wife-mother" died June 7, 1942 "aged 52yrs"

HIRSCHFELD, Philip 1875 - 1962

JACOBSON, Anne "beloved wife - mother" died June 27, 1974 "aged 66yrs"
JACOBSON, Harry "beloved husband-father" died September 25, 1962 "aged 67yrs"

KEMPER, Belle "beloved wife-mother" died March 18, 1932 "aged 32yrs"
KEMPER, Abraham "beloved husband-father-grandfather" died November 17, 1990 "aged 93yrs"

KAFTAN, Pearl "beloved wife & mother" died August 30, 1953 "aged 70yrs" *picture*
KAFTAN, Joseph "beloved husband & father" died January 12, 1967 "aged 86yrs" *picture*
KAFTAN, Lillian died October 14, 1953 "aged 33yrs" *picture*

LINDEN, "beloved husband-father" died October 8, 1954 "aged 83yrs"
LINDEN, Tillie "beloved wife-mother" died March 24, 1960 "aged 86yrs"

LICHTIG, Abraham "husband-father" died March 26, 1939 "aged 51yrs" *picture*

MILINSKY, Shirley "beloved wife-mother-grandmother" born May 16, 1903 died August 3, 1989
MILINSKY, Bernard "beloved husband-father-grandfather" born December 10, 1897 died May 10, 1990
MILINSKY, Zoodek "beloved husband-father" died March 8, 1957 "aged 86yrs" *picture*
MILINSKY, Yetta "beloved wife-mother" died July 21, 1967 "aged 84yrs" *picture*
MILINSKY, Rose "beloved wife-mother" died June 30, 1962 "aged 79yrs"
MILINSKY, William "beloved husband-father" died July 28, 1965 "aged 88yrs"

MEDOW, Laurence "beloved son & brother" April 20, 1946 died September 20, 1968 "quietly he left his mark on all who knew and loved him"

MICKEL, Jack B. "beloved husband-father" born March 26, 1906 died May 6, 1956
MICKEL, Bella "beloved daughter" died February 7, 1954
MICKEL, Ida "beloved grandmother-greatgrandmother" died February 24, 1970
MICKEL, Hyman died November 1, 1949 "aged 75yrs"

MEYER, Yoroslaw P. died September 1, 1916 "aged 23yrs" *picture*

NEIMSTEIN, Anne "beloved mother" died November 1, 1991

OMMERMAN, Morris "husband - father" died May 30, 1963 "aged 77yrs"

PICKMAN, "beloved son" died May 12, 1936 "aged 8 & 1/2 months" *no given name*
PICKMAN, Sam "beloved husband-father" died April 11, 1935 "aged 50yrs"
PICKMAN, Hyman "beloved husband-father" died December 7, 1958 "aged 52yrs"
PICKMAN, Bessie "beloved mother-grandmother" died March 30, 1956 "aged 70yrs"
PICKMAN, Madelyne "beloved wife mother grandmother" died July 17, 1994 "aged 86yrs"

ROZUMNA, Mollye "beloved wife-mother" born July 18, 1915 died November 9, 1984

ROSENBAUM, Morris "beloved husband-father-grandfather" born May 15, 1910 died August 5, 1991
ROSENBAUM, Rose "beloved wife-mother-grandmother" born June 18, 1911 died July 18, 1989

REIFLER, Anna "beloved wife-mother-grandmother" died January 27, 1986 "aged 84yrs"
REIFLER, Sigmund "beloved husband-father-grandfather" died September 11, 1965 "aged 67yrs"

SPEILBERG, Mollie "mother-grandmother-greatgrandmother" died February 14, 1970 "aged 92yrs"

STEIN, Ida "beloved wife-mother" died November 2, 1965 "aged 89yrs"
STEIN, Isreal "beloved husband-father" died August 7, 1934 "aged 64yrs"

STEWART, Reuben "beloved father" died July 27, 1936 "aged 50yrs"
STEWART, Lena "beloved mother" died May 27, 1951 "aged 68yrs"
STEWART, Betty "beloved wife-mother-grandmother" died January 29, 1988 "aged 76yrs"
STEWART, Sam "Bookie" "beloved husband-fathr-grandfather" died March 19, 1984 "aged 74yrs"
STEWART, Gilbert "beloved husband-father" died April 6, 1964 "aged 94yrs"
STEWART, Bessie "beloved wife-mother" died December 22, 1947 "aged 69yrs"
STEWART, Meyer "beloved husband-father-grandfather" died December 26, 1967 "aged 52yrs"

SHORE, Rose "beloved wife-aunt" died June 7, 1989 "aged 81yrs"
SHORE, Maurice "beloved husband-father" died March 12, 1970 "aged 72yrs"

SCHULMAN, Joel H. "beloved husband-father-son" born July 8, 1942 died August 7, 1973 *picture*
SCHULMAN, Bertah "beloved mother" 1911 - 1942 *picture*
SCHULMAN, Isreal L. "beloved husband-father-grandfather-greatgrandfather" born October 3, 1907 died January 18, 1980 *picture*

SCHIFFMAN, Sylvia "beloved mother" died November 6, 1947 "aged 65yrs"
SCHIFFMAN, Joseph "beloved father" died August 17, 1947 "aged 71yrs"

SMITH, Edith "beloved wife-mother-grandmother" died October 12, 1979 "aged 63yrs"
SMITH, Benjamin "a remembrance of love" died December 29, 1982 "aged 71yrs " *picture*

STEVELBERG, Sarah B. "beloved wife, mother, grandmother" born June 29, 1914 died August 12, 1898

THAV, Jean died September 12, 1991 "In memory of our dear sister"
THAV, Florence Esther died August 25, 1989 "aged 75yrs" "In memory of our beloved wife, mother & grandmother"
THAV, Rosa died June 11, 1949 "In memory of our beloved daughter and sister"
THAV, Harry died January 31, 1965 "aged 51yrs" "In memory of our beloved husband-father-grandfather"
THAV, Albert S. died July 26, 1953 "In memory of our beloved son & brother"
THAV, Esther "23 AV 5720"
THAV, Harry "24 ELLUL 5723" died September 13, 1963
THAV, Louis *jewish language*

TEPER, Fannie "beloved wife mother" died September 20, 1977 "aged 79yrs"
TEPER, Louis "beloved husband father" died March 27, 1960 "aged 64yrs"

WEINBERG, Samuel "beloved father-grandfather" died November 6, 1966 "aged 78yrs"
WEINBERG, Sarah "beloved mother-grandmother" died July 22, 1985 "aged 91yrs"

WOLFSON, Sarah "beloved wife-mother" died September 13, 1952 "aged 37rs"
WOLFSON, Max A. "beloved husband-father-brother" died January 2, 1958 "aged 51yrs"
WOLFSON, Bessie "beloved wife-mother" died September 1, 1952 "aged 73yrs"
WOLFSON, Osher "beloved husband-father" died February 12, 1951 "aged 74yrs

WEINGARDEN, Herman "beloved husband-father" died June 25, 1942 "aged 62yrs"
WEINGARDEN, Esther died April 29, 1963 "aged 80yrs"
WEINGARDEN, Faye "beloved sister - aunt" born December 9, 1903 died August 22, 1994
WEINGARDEN, Isaac "beloved father" died July 3, 1946 "aged 93yrs"

WALDMAN, Louis "beloved husband-father" died July 16, 1936 "aged 62yrs"
WALDMAN, Gertrude "beloved wife-mother" died June 2, 1950 "aged 72yrs"

WOLDORF, Banad "beloved father" died July 21, 1934 "aged 59yrs"

WEINER, Hyman "beloved father" died June 14, 1949 "aged 79yrs"

YUDELSON, Ben "beloved husband and friend" born May 1, 1901 died October 22, 1983

ZELTZER, Esther "beloved wife-mother-grandmother" died June 11, 1969 "aged 69yrs"
ZELTZER, Abraham "beloved husband-father" died July 15, 1950 "aged 56yrs"

Contributed by Linda Ball