The Glendale Memorial Park Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at 7844 North 61st Avenue in Glendale, Arizona. The cemetery was originally called Glendale Memorial Park. It is the final resting place of various notable early citizens of Glendale. Among those who are interred in the cemetery are early pioneers, mayors, businessman and veterans who fought in every military conflict in which the United States has been involved starting from the American Civil War onward. Also, in the cemetery there is a memorial and 16 graves of immigrant farmers who perished in 1959, in a bus accident on Central Avenue.
The historic Glendale Memorial Park was founded in 1895, by the settlers of Glendale. It is the oldest cemetery of that city. According to the definition by the Pioneers' Cemetery Association (PCA), a historic cemetery is one which has been in existence for more than fifty years.[2] The cemetery serves as the final resting place of many of Glendale's residents, Civil War Veterans and early pioneers. In 1900, the Glendale Cemetery Association, an organization formed by three Glendale churches, purchased 21 acres of land in 61st and Northern Avenues, which included the Glendale Memorial Park. The Association formally established the new cemetery which they named the Glendale Memorial Park Cemetery. In 1962, the cemetery was turned over to the city of Glendale. The city has the responsibility of the maintaining the grounds and overall daily operations of the cemetery.[3]
Among the notable people interred in the cemetery are mayors, educators, various business pioneers, settlers whose houses are in Glendale's historical list, a member of the Woodmen of the World, a recipient of the Medal of Honor, a couple who were the first residents of Peoria, Arizona and 16 Mexican Nationals who died in a bus accident in 1959.
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