Burial, Cemetery & Memorial

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains two national cemeteries in Alaska. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The Alabama State VeteransMemorial Cemetery at Spanish Fort provides a dignified final resting place for Veterans and their eligible family members.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains six national cemeteries in Alabama. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

Family members can arrange for Military Funeral Honors to be performed at the burial service for deceased Veterans. For more information families should ask their funeral director or contact the Branch specific Military Funeral Honors representative.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains three national cemeteries in Arkansas. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains two national cemeteries in Arizona. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

California has three state Veterans cemeteries and two Native American Veteran cemeteries that offer a dignified final resting place for Veterans and their eligible dependents.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains 12 national cemeteries in California. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado, located in Grand Junction, Colorado offers a dignified final resting place for Colorado Veterans and their eligible family members.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains three national cemeteries in Colorado. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

MSVC provides a dignified final resting place for eligible Veterans and their eligible family members. Connecticut also has the Colonel Raymond F. Gates Memorial Cemetery located at Rocky Hill that is reserved for residents of a Connecticut Veterans residential program.

The VA National Cemetery Administration does not maintain a National Cemetery in Connecticut, they do however have a State Cemetery located in Middletown, Connecticut. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains one national cemetery in Washington, D.C. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

VA National Cemetery Administration does not maintain any cemeteries in Delaware, they do however have two state operated Veterans cemeteries. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains 10 national cemeteries in Florida. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains two national cemeteries in Georgia. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

HSVC offers a dignified final resting place for Veterans and their eligible family members.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains one national cemetery, the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, in Hawaii. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The Iowa Veterans Cemetery located 10 miles west of Des Moines, near Van Meter, offers a dignified final resting place for Veterans and their eligible family members.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains three national cemeteries in Iowa. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains one national cemetery in Idaho. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs (IDVA) will pay up to $125 for the transportation and setting of a government provided headstone or marker. This payment is made only after the headstone or marker has been received, placed, and local transportation and installation fees have been paid.

The Illinois County Veterans Assistance Commission will provide $900 to honorably discharged needy Veterans, their parents, spouse, surviving spouse, or minor children when they do not have enough money to pay for funeral expenses.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains 11 national cemeteries in Illinois. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The Indiana Veterans Memorial Cemetery located adjacentto the Madison State Hospital and Clift Falls State Park in Madison, provides a dignified final resting place for Veterans and their eligible family members.

A special certificate, signed by the Governor of Indiana,is available to surviving family members upon the death of an honorably discharged Veteran to commemorate their service. This certificate is available for Veterans who served in the U.S. Armed Forces, including the National Guard and the U.S.

Honorably discharged Veterans and their spouse or surviving spouse are authorized a burial allowance of $1,000, paid to their next of kin to help offset burial expenses. For more information and to apply, applicants should contact their County Auditor.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains six national cemeteries in Indiana. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The Kansas Office of Veterans Services has four Veterans cemeteries that offer a dignified final resting place for Veterans and their eligible family members.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains five national cemeteries in Kansas. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains eight national cemeteries in Kentucky. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains four national cemeteries in Louisiana. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

Those planning for a deceased Veteran's funeral who wish to have Military Funeral Honors performed should request them through their funeral home. Those who are not using a funeral home should contact the Veteran's branch of service.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains three national cemeteries in Massachusetts. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The Maryland National Guard Honor Guard provides Military Funeral Honors to Veterans who served in the U.S. Armed Forces and received a discharge other than dishonorable.

The Maryland Department of Veterans and Military Families has five state cemeteries located throughout the state that offer Veterans and their eligible dependents a dignified final resting place.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains four national cemeteries in Maryland. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

All honorably discharged Veterans are eligible for Military Funeral Honors. Family members of deceased Veterans who would like to have Military Funeral Honors performed during the Veteran's funeral should notify their Funeral Director.

Maine Veterans' Cemetery System has four Veterans' Cemeteries that provide a dignified final resting place for service members, honorably discharged Veterans, and their eligible family members.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains four national cemeteries in Maine. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

Veterans, their spouse or surviving spouse who meet residency and asset limits, may qualify for a $300 burial expense paid by the County Board of Commissioners, or the Board of County Auditors.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains four national cemeteries in Michigan. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs and the Minnesota National Guard Military Funeral Honors Coordinator are committed to ensuring Veterans receive proper Military Funeral Honors to commemorate their service to the Nation and to assist Veterans Service Organizations in their efforts to prov

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains one national cemetery in Minnesota. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

Military Funeral Honors is a ceremony paying final respect and gratitude for service to the Nation.

Missouri has five State Veterans Cemeteries that provide a dignified final resting place for Veterans and their eligible family members.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains four national cemeteries in Missouri. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains three national cemeteries in Mississippi. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains two national cemeteries in Montana. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains five national cemeteries in North Carolina. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The North Dakota Veterans Cemetery located in Mandan, North Dakota offers a dignified final resting place for Veterans and their eligible family members. The cemetery can accommodate casketed and cremated remains.

The North Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs will award a commemorative memorial coin to a family member of a deceased North Dakota Veteran during Military Funeral Honors.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains one national cemetery in North Dakota. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The NVCA, located in Alliance, Nebraska offers a dignified final resting place for Veterans and their eligible family members.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains three national cemeteries in Nebraska. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The Nebraska Department of Veterans' Affairs maintains a permanent registry of the graves of all Veterans who served in the U.S. Armed Forces and were buried in Nebraska. Information concerning the registry can be requested from Nebraska County Veteran Service Offices.

The NHSVC, located in Boscawen, NewHampshire, offers a dignified final resting place for eligible Veterans and their family members.

Resident, honorably discharged, needy Veterans may be buried at the expense of the municipality where the Veteran died. Veterans must have served during a wartime period for at least 90 days or was discharged after less than 90 days due to a service-connected disability to be eligible.

The VA National Cemetery Administration does not maintain a national cemetery in New Hampshire. There is, however, a New Hampshire State Veteran Cemetery in Boscawen. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery provides a dignified final resting place for eligible Veterans and their families.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains two national cemeteries in New Jersey. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains two national cemeteries in New Mexico. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

Nevada has two Veterans cemeteries that provide a dignified final resting place for eligible Veterans and their family members.

The VA National Cemetery Administration currently does not maintain a national cemetery in Nevada. A new National Veterans Cemetery is under construction in Elko Nevada. Nevada has two state Veterans cemeteries. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

New York offers surviving family members of a service member who died as a result of service in a combat zone a Supplemental Burial Allowance of up to $6,000. This money is used to pay for funeral and burial costs not covered by the federal government.

The West Point Post Cemetery isAmerica's oldest post cemetery and provides a serene, historic location for the burial of those eligible.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains eleven national cemeteries in New York. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains five national cemeteries in Ohio. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The Seaman First Class Billy Turner Veterans Cemetery is Oklahoma's first Veterans cemetery located in Ardmore Oklahoma and provides a dignified final resting place for Veterans, their spouse and dependent children.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains two national cemeteries in Oklahoma. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The Oregon's Military Funeral Honors Program helps to schedule and coordinate military funeral honors for deceased active duty Service members and Veterans.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains five national cemeteries in Oregon. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

A county grave marker is provided free of charge to deceased Veterans. Who is eligible for Pennsylvania County Grave Markers? Deceased Pennsylvania resident Veterans are eligible for a county grave marker.

A county headstone allowance is provided by the county where a Veteran has legal residence. Who is eligible for the Pennsylvania Headstone Allowance? The families of deceased Veterans are eligible for the headstone allowance. There is no time limit to apply for this benefit.

Pennsylvania counties will provide a burial allowance toeligible Veterans and their surviving spouses. These amounts may vary by county. County burial allowances are provided whether the person died in the county or was buried in the county.

The Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Cemetery (also known as Veterans Memorial Cemetery), managed by the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, provides a dignified final resting place for Pennsylvania Veterans.

When requested by the family of an honorably discharged, wartime Veteran, the Rhode Island Adjutant General provides a firing squad, and when possible, a bugler to play "Taps," live (not synthesized or pre-recorded).

The Rhode Island Veterans Memorial Cemetery inExeter provides a dignified final resting place for service members, Veterans, and their eligible family members.

Rhode Island pays the funeral expenses of honorably discharged wartime Veterans who do not have the ability to pay for a funeral.

The VA National Cemetery Administration does not maintain a national cemetery in Rhode Island. Rhode Island has one state Veterans cemetery. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains four national cemeteries in South Carolina. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

South Dakota also has three Tribal Veteran Cemeteries to serve South Dakota's Tribal Veterans and their families. For more information, Veterans or their family members should contact their Tribal Veteran Service Officer or the Tribal Veterans Cemetery directly.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains three national cemeteries in South Dakota. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

South Dakota will pay up to $200 towards the cost of setting a government headstone or marker at the grave of a Veteran.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains six national cemeteries in Tennessee. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains six national cemeteries in Texas. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The VA National Cemetery Administration has two national cemetery in Utah. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The Virginia National Guard Funeral Honors Program provides funeral details that provide a Military Funeral Honors ceremony at the funerals of eligible Veterans.

The Virginia Department of Veterans Services has three Veterans cemeteries that provide a dignified final resting place for Veterans and their eligible family members.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains 15 national cemeteries in Virginia. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The Vermont National Guard has an Honor Guard team that performs Military Funeral Honors during funeral services for Veterans. During Military Funeral Honors the honor guard will perform a gun salute, flag folding ceremony, present the flag to the next of kin, and play Taps.

The VVMC located in Randolph Center offers a dignified final resting place for Veterans, their spouses, and eligible children.

Low income Veterans are guaranteed a proper burial paid for by Vermont. For more information, contact the Vermont Economic Services Division at 800-479-6151.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains two national cemeteries in Vermont. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The Washington State Veterans Cemetery is located near Fairchild Air Force Base and provides a dignified final resting place for Veterans and their eligible family members.

The Camp Lewis Post Cemetery, located on Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) behind 2 nd Division Range Road and near the Skeet Trap Range is open to the public during daylight hours. All burials are in-ground.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains four national cemeteries in Washington State. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The Wisconsin MFHP serves to coordinate and provide a final tribute to service members and Veterans who served Wisconsin and the nation as members of the U.S. Armed Forces.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains seven national cemeteries in Wisconsin. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The Donel C. Kinnard Memorial State Veterans Cemetery, located in Institute, West Virginia provides an honorable, dignified final resting place for service members, Veterans and their eligible family members.

The VA National Cemetery Administration maintains two national cemeteries in West Virginia. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

Wyoming counties provide financial assistance for Veterans who did not leave sufficient funds to pay for their funeral expenses. Counties will pay $500 for the preparation and transportation of the body and $1,500 for burial. Proof must be provided that the Veteran served in the U.S.

The VA National Cemetery Administration has one national cemetery in Wyoming. Please see the local location listing for the nearest cemetery.

The Wyoming MFHP's mission is to coordinate and provide the appropriate final tribute to eligible Wyoming Veterans to acknowledge their faithful and honorable service to Wyoming and the Nation.