<P> Following the funeral across the street from his house at Christ Episcopal Church of Riverdale, Gehrig's remains were cremated and interred on June 4 at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York, which is 21 miles north of Yankee Stadium in suburban Westchester County . Lou Gehrig and Ed Barrow are both interred in the same section of Kensico Cemetery, which is next door to Gate of Heaven Cemetery, where the graves of Babe Ruth and Billy Martin are both located in Section 25 . </P> <P> The Gehrigs had no children during their eight - year marriage . Eleanor never remarried and was quoted as saying, "I had the best of it . I would not have traded two minutes of my life with that man for 40 years with another ." She dedicated the remainder of her life to supporting ALS research . She died 43 years after Lou on March 6, 1984, and was interred with him in Kensico Cemetery . </P> <P> The Yankees dedicated a monument to Gehrig in center field at Yankee Stadium on July 6, 1941; the shrine lauded him as "A man, a gentleman and a great ballplayer whose amazing record of 2,130 consecutive games should stand for all time ." Gehrig's monument joined the one placed there in 1932 to Miller Huggins, which would eventually be followed by Babe Ruth's in 1949 . </P> <P> Gehrig's birthplace in Manhattan at 1994 Second Avenue, near E. 103rd Street, is memorialized with a plaque marking the site, as is another early residence on 309 E. 94th Street, near Second Avenue . As of December 26, 2011, the first - mentioned plaque is not present due to ongoing construction . The second - mentioned plaque is present, but ascribes to his birthplace, not early residence . Gehrig died in a white house at 5204 Delafield Avenue in the Riverdale section of the Bronx . The house still stands today on the east side of the Henry Hudson Parkway and is likewise marked by a plaque . </P>

Luckiest man in the face of the earth