The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has a team of young men and women in their congregations that come from six different parishes to work on cleaning up the old Spanaway Cemeteries on 176th & A Street. This year that cleanup will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. on May 21, 2025….
Category: Cemetery
Wreaths Across America, Roy Cemetery
Saturday, December 14 at 1 p.m., Wreaths Across America will begin placing 150 wreaths at the Roy Cemetery. The public is invited to assist in placing these wreaths on the graves of Veterans interred there. The cemetery is located at 8211 288th Street South just south of the city of Roy, WA.
2024 Spanaway Cemetery Clean-up Project
On Wednesday, May 22nd, from 4:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m., the old Spanaway Pioneer Cemetery will have it’s annual cleanup project. Loretta Fulk of the LDS Church and Boojee Bowman of the Spanaway Historical Society are leading the project. In past years, the Parkland-Spanaway Kiwanis led the project. For the past several years, the LDS…
Repairing headstones in Roy
By Marianne Lincoln On a cool, but sunny Saturday in June, a crowd of about 25 people showed up by 9 a.m. to learn from a Washington State Historical Marker Preservationist Mick Hersey, how to clean and level headstones at the Roy Cemetery. The cemetery is privately owned and recently changed hands. After the passing…
Gravestone Cleaning and Monument Raising Clinic June 3, 2023
By Jeri Carrano-Setzer Come out and learn how to properly clean the headstones in our beautiful Roy cemetery! We will supply you with everything you need except water. Please bring a 5 gallon bucket with water in it. You can purchase one at your local hardware store or check with your local grocery store bakery…
Local Memorial Day programs
On Saturday, May 27, 2023, 10 a.m. there will be an opportunity for volunteers to assist with placing flags on Veterans gravesites at Fir Lane Memorial Park, 924 176th Street East, Spanaway, WA 98387. On Sunday, at 1 p.m., there will be a service at Fir Lane Memorial Park in memory of our armed forces…
Hallowed ground, despicable humans
By Marianne Lincoln Wednesday, when I arrived at the old Spanaway Cemetery, the group doing the cleanup was in the middle of an opening prayer. It was an honorable way to begin work among those who had passed. But as soon as the prayer ended, Boojee Bowman, President of the Spanaway Historical Society, took me…
Spanaway Cemetery Cleanup
By Loretta Fulk and Marianne Lincoln Over 80 youth from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and their leaders in the greater Graham area, prepared the Spanaway Cemetery for the Memorial Day Weekend on May 24. Four groups participated, along with members from Fir Lane, Spanaway Historical Society and the Pierce Prairie Post….
Pierce Prairie Post 