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The Glendale Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 7844 N. 61st Avenue in Glendale, AZ. Three Glendale churches established the City's oldest Cemetery in 1900 when they formed the Glendale Cemetery Association and purchased the original land that is now the Cemetery's Historic Desert Section. The City became responsible for the grounds and operation in 1962.
Glendale and area residents have been using the Cemetery’s services for generations. Among the thousands of Glendale residents and members of the surrounding communities buried at the Cemetery are veterans of the Civil War and Glendale’s founders. The City of Glendale is committed to maintaining the Cemetery as a place of honor and memories for present and future generations.
The Cemetery has approximately 17,000 burial spaces within its 21 acres. Sixty percent of the grounds are landscaped with a crushed granite ground cover to preserve the original desert appearance. The rest of the facility has grass to reflect contemporary cemetery standards. The Cemetery offers grass lots as well as custom niches for cremation urns. Shade structures, a fountain, and mature trees add to the peaceful environment for visitors.
Today, the Cemetery sells burial rights only to Glendale residents, individuals who are purchasing space for deceased Glendale residents, or any non-residents with immediate family already buried at the Cemetery or who purchased a lot at the Cemetery. This policy is expected to preserve the Cemetery as a community resource for residents far into the future.
City of Glendale - Cemetery Information
The Glendale Memorial Park Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at 7844 North 61st Avenue in Glendale, Arizona. The cemetery was originally called Glendale Memorial Park. It is the final resting place of various notable early citizens of Glendale. Among those who are interred in the cemetery are early pioneers, mayors, businessman and veterans who fought in every military conflict in which the United States has been involved starting from the American Civil War onward. Also, in the cemetery there is a memorial and 16 graves of immigrant farmers who perished in 1959, in a bus accident on Central Avenue.
The historic Glendale Memorial Park was founded in 1895, by the settlers of Glendale. It is the oldest cemetery of that city. According to the definition by the Pioneers' Cemetery Association (PCA), a historic cemetery is one which has been in existence for more than fifty years. The cemetery serves as the final resting place of many of Glendale's residents, Civil War Veterans and early pioneers. In 1900, the Glendale Cemetery Association, an organization formed by three Glendale churches, purchased 21 acres of land in 61st and Northern Avenues, which included the Glendale Memorial Park. The Association formally established the new cemetery which they named the Glendale Memorial Park Cemetery. In 1962, the cemetery was turned over to the city of Glendale. The city has the responsibility of the maintaining the grounds and overall daily operations of the cemetery.
This cemetery is located on 7844 North 61st Avenue, Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona.