Mount Olivet Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery operated by the Archdiocese of Denver. The cemetery is located at 12801 W. 44th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. It is the first cemetery owned and operate
Mount Olivet Cemetery Wheat Ridge sign
Gallagher Memorial Chapel
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Jack Swigert
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John Leonard Swigert Jr. was an American NASA astronaut, test pilot, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, United States Air Force pilot, and politician. In April 1970, as command module pilot of A
Mount Olivet Cemetery (Wheat Ridge, Colorado)
…William Gilpin (governor), 1st Governor of the Territory of Colorado 1861-1862 John L. "Jack" Swigert Jr., Command Module Pilot aboard Apollo 13 and Colorado Congressman-elect Jacques Benedict, one of the most prominent architects in Colorado history…
Swigert in 1971
Swigert wearing his Air Force flight suit with a 118th Fighter Squadron, Connecticut Air National Guard patch
Swigert (right) with the "mailbox" rig improvised to adapt the Apollo 13 command module Odyssey's square carbon dioxide scrubber cartridges to fit the Apollo Lunar Module Aquarius, which took a round cartridge
Swigert during suit-up before the launch of Apollo 13, April 11, 1970