Friends of Hillcrest Cemetery

11/01/2025

Friends as Veteran's Day is approaching help us Honor those who gave all by sponsoring a Wreath for a Veteran at Hillcrest Cemetery. This year's Wreaths Across America Day is Saturday, December 13th. Let's turn this Wreath green! Click on the link to sponsor a Wreath https://wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/170829/Overview/?relatedId=0

10/21/2025

It has truly been a team effort the last few decades to maintain and repair the Cemetery. School groups, Scouts, veteran groups, Corporations, and citizens have all played important roles in. We are also fortunate that our relationship with the Township is a solid one, and our Trustees actually have come out to work and attend our ceremonies. Thank you Josh Gerth, Lexi Lausten, and Dee Stone. We are so thankful for your leadership and dedication to the Township and Hillcrest Cemetery.

09/16/2025

Mount Saint Mary's Seminary on Beechmont Avenue has partnered with us for the 4th year in a row to volunteer in the Cemetery. This group of young men have been so instrumental in fixing markers, vaults, implacing signs, and general cleanup. Today, they repaired two collapsed vaults! Our own Kelly Berg coordinates the weekly tasks. Thank you all!

09/04/2025

We have several Veterans of the 369th Resting at Hillcrest! Congratulations Harlem Hellfighters.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth joins congressional leaders to honor the 369th Infantry Regiment of the New York National Guard, also known as the Harlem Hellfighters, to recognize their actions during World War I, at a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in the Capitol, Sept. 3, 2025. The medal is the...