Evergreen Memorial Cemetery

06/01/2023

Memorial Day 2023

05/23/2020

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Community volunteers are at work in Moorhead cemeteries today, preparing the hallowed grounds to celebrate those who have served their country.

As family members trim the peonies and plant flowers – real or silk – as tributes to their loved ones, a smaller-than-usual cadre of US Bank volunteers will be decorating veterans’ graves with American flags at Evergreen and Prairie Home Cemeteries and Moorhead Memorial Gardens. Others will be at work at Riverside and St. Joseph’s Cemeteries on the east side of the river.

In all, a core group of just five perennial US Bank volunteers are honoring vets’ graves at seven sites throughout Fargo-Moorhead. That includes the first Memorial Day at the new Fargo National Cemetery, dedicated last fall by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Scott Orn, who heads up the bank volunteers, says, “This year is going to be a bit unique.” He notes that far fewer will be part of the flag-planting troupe due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the eight previous years his group has been shepherding the flag-setting process, some 60 employees and members of their families have sought out and decorated veterans’ graves. This year, he and just four fellow bankers – Chad Thoreson, Jason Cool, Tim Fee and Corrin Jones-Kremer – are doing their duty with only a few helpers to prevent the inadvertent spread of the virus.

Read more about the flag-planting volunteers in this week's Moorhead Extra, available Thursday in supermarkets and right here: http://www.thefmextra.com/unfurling-the-flag/

09/26/2017

Evergreen Memorial Cemetery's new columbarium was featured in the Moorhead Extra's cover story this week. The new facility provides a secure, dignified way to honor and remember loved ones by interring their cremains in private niches, each sized to accommodate two urns. Families or individuals can also choose interment in a central common ossuarium. More information is available from the cemetery superintendent, 218.233.5997.
Read the story here: http://www.thefmextra.com/honoring-their-memory/

05/24/2017

Coming in Fall 2017 -- a contemporary option for burial at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery in Moorhead. The Columbarium at Evergreen offers a total of 80 memorial niches, each of which can accommodate urns of two individuals. If you'd like to learn more, contact superintendent Russ Hanson at 218.233.5997

08/19/2014

In memory of Carl Morlock and in honor of his wife Della, the Morlock family has donated two granite benches to the memorial garden area of Evergreen Cemetery. Thank you for supporting our program!