Where is Babe Ruth's mother buried and are there memorials related to the Ruth family?

1. Where Babe Ruth himself is buried — a national pilgrimage site

Babe Ruth’s final resting place is Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York, where his grave is easily identified by a granite monument showing Jesus blessing a boy in a baseball uniform and by the constant offerings left by fans — baseballs, bats and caps — that cemetery staff routinely clear and that draw steady visitors year-round ^{[1] [2] [6] [3]}. Journalism and cemetery guides describe the grave’s location within the cemetery (section/plot references vary in non-official guides) and note that the Archdiocese-operated cemetery sees regular foot traffic, bus tours and playoff pilgrimages to the Babe’s grave ^{[7] [8] [9]}.

2. The monument and inscriptions — what’s on the gravesite

Contemporary accounts say a granite monument was placed over Ruth’s gravesite after his burial; it includes a relief of Jesus and a young ballplayer and is frequently adorned with fan offerings ^{[2] [3]}. Gate of Heaven’s celebrity burials list and multiple visitor reports confirm that Ruth’s grave bears an epitaph and iconography that have made it one of the most visited graves in the U.S. cemetery system ^{[1] [3] [8]}.

3. Babe Ruth’s mother — location, neglect and later memorial efforts

Babe Ruth’s mother, identified in reporting as Catherine (Katie) with the maiden name rendered in sources as Schamberger or Schanberg in earlier errors, is buried in Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery in Baltimore in Lot 126, Section G; reporting in the Baltimore Sun documents that her grave was neglected for decades and that the Babe Ruth Birthplace & Museum and local advocates arranged for a proper headstone nearly a century after her death ^{[4] [5]}. The Baltimore Sun article recounts both historical errors about her name and age in earlier publications and a corrective effort timed to Ruth’s birthday to “correct a grave injustice” by marking her grave ^[5].

4. Family graves and nearby markers — father, wife and companions

Reporting and cemetery databases place other Ruth family graves in different cemeteries: his father’s grave was visited in Baltimore at Loudon Park Cemetery in the same travelogues that describe the mother’s site, and Babe’s wife Claire Merritt Ruth is interred alongside him at Gate of Heaven ^{[10] [1]}. Find A Grave and visitor accounts also note adjacent celebrity burials in Gate of Heaven, and the concentration of offerings at Ruth’s plot makes it a focal point for fans visiting other graves in that section ^{[11] [7] [8]}.

5. Public memorials and civic recognition beyond the cemetery

Beyond gravesites, New York City moved to memorialize Ruth in public space: shortly after his death, the New York City Council voted to create Babe Ruth Plaza near Yankee Stadium, a civic-level commemoration mentioned in contemporaneous death-and-funeral accounts ^[2]. Local museums and the Babe Ruth Birthplace & Museum in Baltimore have also played public roles in preserving memory and rectifying neglect of family burial sites ^[5].

6. Competing perspectives and interpretive notes

Sources agree on the Hawthorne burial and the heavy fan pilgrimage to that grave ^{[1] [9] [8]}. Baltimore reporting focuses on the moral frame—neglect then corrective action—around his mother’s grave ^{[5] [4]}. Some amateur guides and crowd-sourced sites add plot-level detail (Find A Grave, Roadside America) that can help visitors but are not official cemetery records; those should be cross-checked with the cemetery for exact plot numbers ^{[7] [11]}.

Limitations: available sources do not provide the exact inscription text verbatim for Katie’s new headstone, nor do they include an official Gate of Heaven interment map from the Archdiocese; visitor guides give approximate section/plot pointers (not authoritative property records) ^{[4] [7] [11]}.