Cook Temple Memorial Cemetery Inc

09/17/2025

Family: You can send donations using Zelle to:
([email protected]) Thank you! 😘

07/11/2020

Family, as you know, I’ve been collecting money to purchase a historical marker! Unfortunately, a very large tree was split in half by lightening and one half has fallen on top of our headstones (knocking one headstone off the base). Some of the money collected so far will have to be used to pay for tree & debris removal. I don’t have a price yet, but the tree was split in half & it fell in two different directions! We need donations! Thank you!

01/30/2020

01/20/2020

We are still asking family for donations to purchase a historical marker! Our Cemetery was added to Historical Register last year. Please message me Wanda Temple Locke for additional info. Thank you!

04/29/2019

Thank you to Cousin Charlie Prude and friend and Jules Ross for cutting up a large branch which broke during the storm! Work is not completed, another large branch is hung up in the tree, Charlie’s gonna get his tractor, tie a chain around branch & pull it down, cut it up and haul the wood away! No headstones were damaged! 🙏🏾🙏🏾

02/10/2019

The law contemplates generally two categories of cemeteries, public and private. A public cemetery is one used by the general community, a neighborhood, or a church, while a private cemetery is one used only by a family or a small portion of the community. However, actual public use rather than ownership determines whether a cemetery is public. Thus, a cemetery, though privately owned or maintained, may be deemed a public cemetery if it is open, under reasonable regulations, to the use of the public for the burial of the dead. A cemetery, though privately owned, is properly classified as a “public cemetery” where it consists of a great number of burial plots or sites sold and for sale to the public. Conversely, a family burying ground has been defined by statute as one in which no lots are sold to the public and in which interments are restricted to a group of persons related to each other by blood or marriage.

11/01/2018

Hello family!
Cousin Sonja Inge posted this on our Temple Family page:

I'm saddened to announce the passing of my uncle, Joseph N. Temple (son of Andrew "Andy" Temple).

Services will be held on Monday, November 5, 2018 at Archway Memorial Chapel, 111 Taylor Road, Hazelwood, MO 63042. The viewing will be from 9am to 10 am and the funeral will be from 10 am to 11:30 am.

The burial service will be at 1 pm at Veterans Memorial, Jefferson Barrack.

Thank you.

07/05/2018

I would like to thank the following family members who have donated to the upkeep of our Cook Temple Memorial Cemetery! We appreciate you! 👏🏾

Velma (Temple) Locke
Byron Temple
Levon Temple
Wanda (Temple) Locke
Victor Temple
Drs. Enoch Charles & Joyce Temple
Denise Temple

06/22/2018

Hello Family,
This is Wanda Temple Locke, my mother, Rubye Temple Locke managed the upkeep of our Cook Temple Memorial Cemetery, in Pickensville until she became ill in 2012, During the period of her illness I assisted her in the Cemetery upkeep by calling family members and asking for donations to pay for cutting the grass and removal of debris etc. My mother passed away in December of 2013. For the last five years, I have managed the Cemetery thru getting donations from family as well as paying someone to cut the grass on a regular basis.

When I took over, we had less than $100 in our fund, through the support of a few family members we received donations regularly which sustained the upkeep until this year. At this point we are in need of donations!

Special thanks to those who have supported from the beginning...

Lewis Clayton Cook (R.I.P.)
Rubye T Locke (R.I.P.)
Alva Newte Temple (R.I.P.)
Warren Temple (R.I.P.)
Dr. Enoch Charles Temple
Ruby J. Temple
Deleanius & Jeff Armstead
Wanda Temple Locke
Jules Ross
Velma Locke

All those listed above have donated funds on a regular basis and I am reaching out to others. Any amount is appreciated! Please message me for donation details!

Thank you,
Wanda Temple Locke