Where Legacies Live
Where Legacies Live, Generosity Makes a Difference
For more than a century, Historic Lutz Cemetery has been a place where our community's history, families, and veterans are remembered and honored. Established in 1911, these historic grounds hold generations of stories worth preserving.
Today, we are working to protect that legacy while creating meaningful new spaces for remembrance, reflection, and community connection. From maintaining our historic grounds and honoring veterans to preserving records and developing new memorial gardens, the generosity of people who care makes every improvement possible.
You can make a difference in many ways. Whether you donate, sponsor a memorial project, contribute materials or professional services, or volunteer your time, your support helps ensure Historic Lutz Cemetery remains a place of dignity, beauty, and remembrance for generations to come.
How You Can Help
Tree Hero Sponsorship
Dedicate a beautiful crape myrtle tree with a personalized granite stone and an engraved Patriots Way brick.
Patriots Way
Create a lasting tribute with an engraved brick while supporting perpetual care for our future veterans' memorial spaces.
Veterans Honor Garden
Discover a meaningful partner project honoring veterans and providing a dignified resting place for those once forgotten.
Adopt a Stone
Coming Soon
Some of our historic flat grave markers are sinking beneath soil and debris, leaving names and stories hidden from view. Help us preserve these important memorials through our upcoming Adopt a Stone restoration initiative.
Help Us Build a Better Tomorrow
Some of the most meaningful improvements at Historic Lutz Cemetery are made possible by people who give more than financial support. Whether you contribute funds, donate materials, provide professional services, or volunteer your time, you can help transform our historic grounds into beautiful, lasting spaces for generations to come.
Serenity Park
A Place for Quiet Reflection
Help us create Serenity Park, a peaceful retreat beneath the cemetery's beautiful, mature oak trees. It will feature winding pathways, comfortable benches, and colorful landscaping. Whether visiting a loved one, finding comfort in nature, or simply seeking a moment of peace, Serenity Park will offer a place where everyone is welcome to pause and reconnect.
Ways to Help: Financial contributions, donated benches, landscaping materials, flowering plants, professional services, and volunteer labor.
Babyland Restoration
Remembering Our Littlest Angels
Help us restore Babyland, a special section of Historic Lutz Cemetery dedicated to some of the youngest lives entrusted to our care. Through thoughtful improvements to the grounds, borders, landscaping, and memorial markers, we hope to create a peaceful, beautifully maintained place where these little ones will always be remembered.
Ways to Help: Financial contributions, donated materials, professional services, and volunteer labor.
The Whispering Garden
A Sacred Place to Say Goodbye
Help us bring the Whispering Garden to life, a peaceful elevated walkway leading to a circular deck overlooking the natural wetlands of Historic Lutz Cemetery. Families will be able to reserve this private setting for affordable one- or two-hour ash-scattering ceremonies, creating a beautiful and dignified way to honor their loved ones.
Ways to Help: Financial contributions, donated building materials, professional construction services, and volunteer labor.
Roadway Improvements
Help Build Our Roadways
Help us develop designated roadways throughout Historic Lutz Cemetery to provide safer access while protecting the gravesites entrusted to our care. This essential project will help preserve the dignity of our historic grounds while improving access for families, visitors, and cemetery operations. Roadways will also assist in preventing erosion and flooding.
Ways to Help: Financial contributions, donated construction materials, professional paving services, equipment, and labor.
Every Gift Makes a Difference
Beyond our featured projects, Historic Lutz Cemetery welcomes general donations to support ongoing grounds maintenance, historical preservation, veteran recognition, and improvements throughout our cemetery.
Your generosity helps us care for this historic property, protect the stories entrusted to us, and ensure that future generations have a beautiful and dignified place to remember.
Give the Gift of Your Time - We Can Build a Legacy Together
Historic Lutz Cemetery has been part of our community since 1911. Its future depends on people who believe that history deserves to be preserved, veterans deserve to be honored, and every life deserves to be remembered.
Whether you give your time, contribute financially, or help us share our mission, you are helping protect something irreplaceable.
Preserving History. Honoring Veterans. Serving Families. Building Legacy.
Grounds Maintenance
Help keep Historic Lutz Cemetery beautiful and welcoming! Volunteers can assist with edging, pulling weeds, picking up fallen limbs, blowing debris from grave markers, pressure washing, and general grounds cleanup. Every helping hand makes a difference in preserving our historic cemetery.
Historical
Help preserve the history and stories of Historic Lutz Cemetery! Volunteers can help photograph grave markers, research family histories, document burial records, digitize historical materials, and uncover the stories of those laid to rest here. Every effort helps protect our community’s heritage for future generations.
Events
Help make Historic Lutz Cemetery's special events meaningful and memorable! Volunteers can assist with event setup, decorating, welcoming guests, distributing programs, providing refreshments, and supporting patriotic ceremonies and community gatherings. Your time and talents help us honor veterans, celebrate history, and bring our community together.
Together, We Preserve What Matters.
Historic Lutz Cemetery has been part of our community since 1911, and its future depends on people who believe that every life deserves to be remembered.
Whether you volunteer your time, share your talents, sponsor a project, or make a donation, you become part of something greater—a community working together to honor the past, care for the present, and build a lasting legacy for future generations.
You don't have to have a loved one resting here to make a difference. You simply need a heart for this place and the people whose stories it holds.
Preserving History. Honoring Veterans. Serving Families. Building Legacy.
Thank you for helping us care for this special place.