Arlington Memorial Park & Pet Cemetery Rockford

12/30/2024

We will be open our regular hours Monday, December 30. On New Year's Eve, the office will be open from 8:30am to 12pm (Noon) only. We will be closed New Year's Day, and reopen on Thursday, January 2nd from 8:30am to 3:30pm.

12/23/2024

The office for Arlington Memorial Park and the Charles Street Pet Cemetery will be closed Tuesday, December 24 (Christmas Eve) and Wednesday, December 25 (Christmas Day). It will reopen Thursday, December 26 at 8:30 a.m.

We wish everyone a Merry Christmas.

12/06/2024

We are sharing this post from Mulford Animal Hospital. Now that is gotten colder, please be sure your pets are staying warm. Read through their reminders on keeping your pets safe from hypothermia. We don't want to see your pets before their time.

12/02/2024

We wanted to share this information originally posted by Bellwood Animal Hospital. Please keep your pets safe this holiday season. We rather not see them before their time.

12/02/2024

Just a reminder that we are starting winter office hours Monday, December 2nd. The hours will be Monday through Friday from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm and closed Saturday and Sunday (except for the occasional Saturday funeral).

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11/27/2024

We wish you a Happy Thanksgiving for Thursday, November 27, 2024. The office will be closed but the cemetery grounds are open from Dawn until Dusk.

11/20/2024

This article goes into detail about a cemetery in California, but our cemetery was also planned and designed along the same system, known as the memorial park.

Cemetery Types: The Memorial Park

Read the story on the GenealogyBank blog: https://bit.ly/3OfDK3H

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega describes the creation of a new type of cemetery: the memorial park, focusing on Forest Lawn in Glendale, California.

Photo: view to the north and east walls of the Great Mausoleum, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California. Credit: Chris English; Wikimedia Commons.

11/18/2024

Our new website for Arlington Memorial Park has finally gone live. https://arlingtonmemorialcemetery.com/

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11/13/2024

We do have a little construction going on at the moment. We are in the process of re-doing the Arlington Memorial Cemetery website page. It will be a little wonky for a few days until the new site goes live. Speaking of construction, the brickwork in the refractory which is part of the pet cremation process has been completely changed out now.

11/11/2024

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month...

10/25/2024

An interesting article on pet cemeteries we saw on Hartsdale Pet Cemetary's FB page. Pet cemeteries can be peaceful places and pet families put heartfelt and interesting epitaphs on the pets' markers. Our pet cemetery is a peaceful place, and our families have some interesting epitaphs too. Maybe not to the Uncle Ted level mentioned in the article, but epitaphs at the Charles Street Pet Cemetery, include "She never met a stranger," "38 states-100,000-mile dog", "Old Blue Eyes" (pet was named Franky), and the interesting "I'm Too Sexy and Heaven Bound." (No, the pet wasn't named Fred in honor of the group Right, Said Fred.)

Angel's Rest is a famous pet cemetery in Utah. Author Paul Koudounaris told The Show more about these cemeteries' histories and what they represent for the owners.

10/18/2024

We've taken a lot of wreath orders since September. We still have wreaths available, but you might want to get your order in soon. Wreaths will be going on the graves the week of Thanksgiving.

Note: This picture isn't representative of our wreath. Ours are made of evergreen boughs, has a red ribbon and minimal extra decorations.

10/02/2024

Fall is in the air and the field north of the cemetery (which we own and rent out for farming) has been harvested. Over the next few weeks, our grounds crew is going to be doing some clean up along the field's property lines. This includes taking down and clearing out some trees and bushes and doing general tidying up.

09/25/2024

Cedar Bluff Cemetery posted an update on how they're doing regarding their road repair project. If you want to help out one of the city's historic cemeteries, please consider giving them a few dollars to help out.

A HUGE Thank you to all that have donated to our road fund. So far we have raised a little over $6500.00 Through our GoFundMe and individual direct donations. While we can’t afford to have the roads resurfaced with blacktop, we have brought in over 100 tons of recycled asphalt to fix the worst areas. So far it is holding up very well.
Every little bit helps 😊

https://gofund.me/fc04787c

09/11/2024

Yesterday, we mailed out the postcards for this year's Christmas wreath orders. If you're not on our mailing list but you have family buried at Arlington or pets at the Charles Street Pet Cemetery inside Arlington, you can still order wreaths by sending a check to address listed below or calling or stopping by the office with a credit card. We will take orders until we run out. Wreaths will go out on the graves the week of Thanksgiving.

09/04/2024

This is our Little Free Library outside the entrance of the cemetery on the east side. Our two year-round grounds crew members built it in-between their other duties in August.

09/03/2024

We have put up a Little Free Library outside the entrance of the cemetery. Take a book, leave a book. If you have several you want to donate and there's no room in the library at the time, you can drop them off at the office inside the main entrance (little brick house to the right) during our hours of Monday through Friday from 9am to 4pm and we'll get them in as space becomes available. We will be putting up a picture of our actual library soon.

08/28/2024

You may or may not be aware, but August 28th is Rainbow Bridge Day, named to honor pets who are no longer with us physically.

Credit for cartoon characters: Patrick McDonnell, creator of the comic strip "Mutts."