Memorial Park Cemetery was built to honor, respect and serve multi-denominational family needs, meeting the best in funeral and cemetery services in the area. Since 1919, Memorial Park Cemetery has been a family-owned facility serving all faiths, denominations, and those of a variety of cultural and traditional backgrounds. Encompassing over 160 acres, with 50 acres still underdeveloped, Memorial Park Cemetery has been and will continue to meet the needs of St. Louis residents as well as residents of surrounding communities. The facility offers a variety of burial options, including traditional plots, lawn crypts, mausoleum crypts and outside garden crypts. Cremation niches in the properties beautiful stone chapel serve the needs of those not wishing aground burial. Located in Jennings County, Memorial Park Cemetery is the final resting place of many area notables, including famous sports figures, politicians, veterans, and area founders. The well- groomed property offers dozens of rolling acres of lawns, monuments, stone structures and shrubbery and floral arrangements. Visitors to the property find it easily accessible, calm, peaceful and serene. The stone structures and buildings on the property give it a sense of dignity, permanency, and strength, while the gently flowing grasses, flowers, and shrubs of the property offer a sense of tranquility, gentleness and peace. The property is open every day of the year, offering visitors beautiful bright green lawns and rose blooms in the spring to well maintained pathways and accessibility in winter. Staff at Memorial Park Cemetery are ever ready to meet the needs of grieving loved ones with compassionate, courteous and respectful service. Located northwest of downtown St. Louis along Interstate 70, Memorial Park Cemetery is within moments of the meandering curves of the Mississippi river near the Missouri and Illinois state line. The property may be accessed by taking the Lucas and Hunt Road turnoff from the Interstate, arriving at the rural, quiet location that offers easy access, privacy, and security. |