When you purchase cemetery property or a marker or monument at Memorial Park, a portion of your payment is set aside for what is known as Perpetual Care. These funds provide for the daily upkeep of the cemetery. A portion of each purchase is placed in our irrevocable perpetual care fund trust.

Only the earnings generated by the trust are ever used for the maintenance of the cemetery. The principal remains intact to ensure that the cemetery will be maintained forever.

If you’ve ever visited us during the winter, you know that it is important to us to keep the cemetery grounds safe for visitors. We plow the roads, treat and shovel the walkways throughout the cemetery in a timely fashion after weather events to make sure that whatever the weather, visitors are able to safely drive and walk within Memorial Park. These activities are made possible by our perpetual care trust fund.

Cemeteries that do not have perpetual care funds can find themselves unable to care for the cemetery grounds in the best manner. Expenses like snow removal, road repairs and even routine mowing have to be covered by today’s property sales. If those sales do not materialize, maintenance can suffer. At Memorial Park, this is not a worry. We have over $1 million in trust funds that provide for not only today’s needs, but also the needs of tomorrow and the years to come.

To learn more about burial, cremation and mausoleum options at Memorial Park, please contact us today.