Washington Park North Cemetery has been serving the needs of Indianapolis residents since the mid 1950s, though the cemetery grounds itself have been in use since the mid 1920s. Staff at the cemetery and funeral center offers a multitude of services and funeral options to grieving family members. Situated on about 150 sprawling acres of green lawns, well maintained and groomed trees and carefully designed and placed shrubs and floral arrangements, Washington Park North Cemetery provides a comforting location for burial as well as offering scenic landscapes and ambience of surrounding woods for visitors. Staff at Washington Park North provides family members and friends with the opportunity to celebrate life with its beautiful memorials and services. The Family Center offers the perfect setting for large family gatherings where services and receptions may be held. The Liberty Bell section of the grounds offers a resting place for veterans of all services; a place of honor and dignity that is personified by the Armed Services flags that continually flap in the breeze over the final resting places of servicemen and women from all wars. Washington Park North Cemetery also serves as the final resting place of many famous sports figures, including Dennis ?Duke? Nalon, a veteran of the famous Indianapolis 500 and a number of Indianapolis politicians. One of the most beautiful cemetery grounds in Marion County, Indiana, the Washington Park North is also situated on the edge of a rippling lake that attracts a wealth of birds, ducks and small wildlife. Washington Park North and their owners, Flanner and Buchanan, are also among the first in the area to offer ?green burials? that address environmental and conservation wishes and efforts of family. Green burials offer biodegradable containers as one of their many burial options, as well as burial in a natural wooded setting found in Kessler Woods, a five-acre piece of land adjacent to the formal cemetery grounds. Located northwest of downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, Washington Park North may be accessed from North Michigan Road with a turnoff onto West Kessler Boulevard. |