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1. How do I purchase a lot?

Currently, the City Cemetery is sold out. Until a new location is found, the City Clerk’s Office has a waiting list. Some lots are sold back to the City and some lots are sold by the owner. If you purchase a lot from the owner please contact the City Clerk’s Office to update the records.

Columbarium

The City now has cremain remains vaults available in a standing monument called a Columbarium (PDF). The current prices for Columbarium vaults are contained in the Resolution (PDF) creating the fees for the Columbarium.

Memory Wall

A memory wall is available for those loved ones that are not interred in the cemetery. The Resolution (PDF) was passed in December 2015 creating the fees for reserving a space on the wall. A prepayment is paid with the City Clerk’s office to have Glacier Memorial Gardens engrave the nameplate.

Fees

• $60 - Reserving space
• $290 - Engraving by Glacier Memorial Gardens

2. How much is a lot?

The price of a cemetery lot depends on whether the purchaser lives inside or outside City limits.

Fees

• Baby/Crematory - $100
• City Residents - $250
• County Residents - $500

For Columbarium pricing, see the Resolution (PDF) creating the fees for Columbarium vaults. The opening and closing of the vault is contained in the initial price of the vault and there is no additional charge for the opening and closing of the vault.

3. How much is the service?

Most funeral homes will include the opening and closing costs at the time of the funeral. The City of Whitefish does allow family internments for ashes at no extra cost with the condition of notifying the City Clerk’s Office of the date, time, and person of internment. The City of Whitefish crew will open and close the location of internment.

Fees

• Ashes - $150
  • Weekends and Overtime (OT) - $200
• Full Burial - $750
  • Weekends and OT - $850

4. How do I place a monument or headstone?

These local monument companies will place the monument and/or headstones and will know the rules and regulations of the Whitefish Cemetery:

• Big Sky Monuments
• Glacier Memorial Gardens
• Glacier Monuments

5. How do I find a person interred?

You can search your loved one by name and find the location on the cemetery directory (PDF). The cemetery map (PDF) will help you find the location.

6. What are the Policy and Procedures of the Cemetery?

At their regularly scheduled meeting on April 5, 2021, the City Council adopted the Cemetery Policy and Procedures by Resolution No. 21-11.