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Cemetery Locations

  • North Main Street, West Bend

  • North on Hwy. 144, Cross Newark Drive, then turn left on Forestview Drive to St. Mary's Cemetery.  Approximately two miles from St. Mary's Parish.

Privileges and Regulations

 

The St. Mary's Cemetery Association is pledged to providing, from the perpetual care funds entrusted to it. a cemetery that will always be a place of quiet and abiding beauty.  To do this it is necessary that there be uniformity and simplicity of arrangement and that costs of maintenance be budgeted carefully.

 

It is important that lot owners be aware that reasonable regulations must be adopted to best serve the interest of all concerned.  With this in mind, you Trustees have made these regulations so that you may understand your rights and privileges as an owner.

 

Supervision of Cemetery

 

Owners and visitors are reminded that supervision of the cemetery has been delegated by the Trustees to the Church Sexton.  Any questions regarding cemetery business should be directed to the Pastor of the Parish.

 

General Regulations

 

The Association is not responsible for theft or damage to anything placed on graves or lots, including monuments.

 

No person shall be permitted on the cemetery grounds after dark.  Children under 10 years of age must be accompanied by a parent or other adult.

 

No dogs shall be permitted on the cemetery grounds.  No bicycles, motorbikes or snowmobiles will be permitted on the cemetery grounds.  Drives may not be used for driver education training. 

 

Flowers and baskets left at grave site after a funeral will be removed one week after the burial.

 

Funeral processions are under the direction the the Sexton.  No parking is permitted on the grass areas adjacent to the driveway.

 

Burials

 

Burials should be confined, whenever possible, to weekdays.  Saturday afternoon burials must be scheduled for not later than 2:30 p.m. at the grave site to permit the Sexton ample time to close the grave and replace grave-side flowers.  Burials scheduled after 2:30 p.m. on Saturdays will require an extra charge of $25.00.  No Sunday or Holiday (New Years Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, thanksgiving Day and Christmas) burials will be permitted.

 

Monuments

 

The size of monuments permitted depends on the size of the burial plot.  This is done to prevent overcrowding.  We have arranged that ever other row of graves will have above surface markers and all others will have surface markers only.

 

Monument Sizes

 

  • Four-grave lots: Maximum monument size 45 inches in height with base of 16 x 60 inches.

  • Two-grave lots: Maximum monument size 36 inches in height with base of 16 x 48 inches.

  • One-grave lot: Maximum monument size 24 inches in height with base of 12 x 36 inches.

All concrete bases must extend at least 6 inches beyond the size of the monument base on all sides.

 

Cremation Urns

 

Urns with cremation remains may be placed on lots.  One urn may be placed on a grave with a regular burial.  Two urns may be placed on a grave with no regular burial.

 

Burial Vaults

 

These vaults should be of the reinforced concrete type or of the steel type Interment Vault.  They can be either sealed, or not sealed vaults.

 

Decorations

 

Perennials, Rose Bushes, Shrubs and Woody Plants are not permitted.  Suitable annual flowers may be planted in a cultivated bed extending no farther than 14 inches from, and not wider than the monument base.

 

Artificial flowers will be permitted in recessed inverted vases.  These vases may be purchased from any monument dealer.  No paper mache vases, glass jars, or tin cans will be permitted and will be discarded.  No artificial flowers may be placed directly in the ground because of the hazard of wire stems getting into the power mowers.

 

All summer and fall decorations should be removed by October 30th of each year.

 

Winter wreaths, styrofoam crosses and winter flowers may be placed starting November 1st and will be removed March 15th.

 

The Association will do a complete removal of all old artificial flowers from the cemeteries by April 1st and November 1st of each year.

 

If flower beds and bushes become unsightly, the Association reserves the right to remove them.

 

Flags on graves of veterans and lodge members will be permitted if inserted in a proper, sturdy holder.  These may be placed on Memorial Day and any other special holidays, or after burials.  The Sexton will remove flags when they become unsightly.

 

St. Mary's Cemeteries provide an environment in which life is remembered, hope is rekindled and faith is awakened, renewed and strengthened.

 

St. Mary's

Immaculate Conception

Cemetery Association

 

 

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Last Updated 09/14/2005

 

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