Metro will honor veterans over Memorial Day by placing flags at all of its historic cemeteries.
Staff and volunteers will be on hand at Lone Fir Cemetery at Southeast 26th Avenue and Southeast Stark Street and at Multnomah Park Cemetery at the intersection of Southeast 82nd Avenue and Southeast Holgate Blvd., in Portland and Douglass Cemetery on Southeast Hensley Road in Troutdale.
Metro staff and volunteers will be available to help locate grave sites, provide vases for flowers, provide flags for veterans’ markers and share information about the cemeteries. Visitors are encouraged to stop by the tables to add contact information to their family burial records. Staff and volunteers will be on hand from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 28 to 30.
Metro places a unique emphasis on sustainability and biodiversity in each of its cemeteries – providing access to nature and using practices that protect the environment and the plants, insects and animals that call each cemetery home.
Metro’s cemeteries are valued as sacred places. Metro’s cemetery serve not only as places for remembrance, but also places for quiet reflection and respite for the community. They are available to the public for interment and inurnment, grave visitation, reflection and historical research.
For more information, contact Metro's cemetery office at 503-797-1709.
See all of Metro’s historic cemeteries