Place:Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States

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Name	Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery
Alt names	Forest Lawn Cemetery	source: Find A Grave
	Greenwood Memorial Cemetery	source: Find A Grave
	Memory Lawn Cemetery	source: Find A Grave
Type	Cemetery
Coordinates	33.4558°N 112.1097°W
Located in	Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States

Greenwood Memory Lawn Mortuary & Cemetery is the official name given to a cemetery located at 2300 West Van Buren Street in Phoenix, Arizona owned by Dignity Memorial. The cemetery, which resulted as a merger of two historical cemeteries, Greenwood Memorial Park and Memory Lawn Memorial Park, is the final resting place of various notable former residents of Arizona. Pioneers, governors, congressman, government officials, journalists, race car drivers, soldiers, actors and actresses are among the many notable decedents who are interred in the cemetery.

Greenwood Memorial Park, the first of the two cemeteries which make up Greenwood/Memory Lawn Mortuary & Cemetery, was established in 1906, by the Arizona Lodge No. 2 of the Free and Accepted Masons. The first early structures in the cemetery were a crematorium, a columbarium and a mausoleum.

The Shumway family established another cemetery to the west of the Greenwood Memorial Park in 1947, named Memory Lawn Memorial Park. A fence separated the cemetery from the Greenwood Memorial Park. This cemetery added a mortuary, memory mausoleum and chapel in 1957.

In 1989, the cemeteries merged and became the Greenwood/Memory Lawn Mortuary & Cemetery. The cemetery joined the Dignity Memorial network which provides funeral, cremation and cemetery services.

Greenwood/Memory Lawn Mortuary & Cemetery with its 192 acres (78 ha) is the largest cemetery in Arizona. The cemetery has 59 sections, including a front lawn section, a veterans garden and various other cultural and religious gardens. The cemetery has a monument, which was organized in 1885 and erected in 1910, dedicated to the memory of the deceased members of the Phoenix Volunteer Fire Department.

This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Greenwood/Memory Lawn Mortuary & Cemetery. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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Location

2300 West Van Buren Street; see also Memory Lawn Cemetery at OpenStreetMap. Alternative address provided on location home page: 719 North 27th Avenue; West Van Buren and North 27th abut west and south cemetery boundaries, respectively.

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