Rick James Burial - He Will Be The Class Act In This Cemetery
From Capital News 9:

Buffalo-born funk singer Rick James will be buried Saturday at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo following a funeral service.

James died in his sleep Friday at his home near Universal City, California. He was 56 years old.

There will be a public viewing from 11 a.m. to noon on Saturday at Saint John Baptist Church followed immediately by a funeral service. The burial will follow.

Rick James won't be the only famous person buried at Forest Lawn Buffalo:

On a gentle slope in Buffalo's Forest Lawn, overlooking Delaware Avenue and Park Lake, stand giant shade trees - silent sentinels surrounding and helping to keep ever sacred the burial place of MILLARD FILLMORE, outstanding Buffalonian, who became the thirteenth president of the United States of America.

The Millard Fillmore shrine is visited by thousands of people each year - folks from all the Americas as well as from distant lands - yet it is sometimes said that many residents of the Niagara Frontier are unaware of the fact that here in their midst is the "chosen" resting place of this prominent and inter-nationally known person. It is truly a "chosen" place inasmuch as Millard Fillmore, during his lifetime, Se-lected his family cemetery lot in Buffalo's Forest Lawn.

Other than being President, Fillmore is probably most famous for being involved in the Know Nothing movement:

When the slavery issue was temporarily quieted by the Compromise of 1850 nativism again came to the fore. Many secret orders grew up....These organizations baffled political managers of the older parties, since efforts to learn something of the leaders or designs of the movement were futile; all their inquiries of supposed members were met with a statement to the effect that they knew nothing. Hence members were called Know-Nothings....Growing rapidly, the Know-Nothings allied themselves with the group of Whigs who followed Millard Fillmore....In June, 1855, a crisis developed; at a meeting of the national council in Philadelphia, Southerners seized control and adopted a resolution calling for the maintenance of slavery. The slavery issue...split apart the Know-Nothing movement as it had the Whigs. The antislavery men went into the newly organized Republican party. Millard Fillmore, the American party candidate for President in 1856, polled a small vote and won only the state of Maryland. The national strength of the Know-Nothing movement thus was broken.

Ironically, Rick james was raised as a strict Catholic. And, by the way, he was black. Yet he and Millard Fillmore will occupy the same plot of ground. Death is the great leveler.