LOT PRICES AND FEES
Fee Prices Effective March 1, 2007 
Lot Prices Effective July 1, 2007
(Prices subject to change without notice)

Charges for Interments-1          Week daysSaturday-2      Holiday-3
Grave Openings               $ 525.00    $ 625.00$ 725.00
Ashes in urns                          $ 300.00    $  400.00$ 500.00
Ashes in urn vaults   $ 400.00    $ 500.00$ 600.00
Infant Grave Openings              $ 400.00    $  500.00$ 600.00

1 Winter months add $150.00.  This is December through March.  We require 48 hours notification before burial in winter months.
2 No Saturday after 11 a.m. and No Sunday burials.
3 City holidays: New Year's Day, Presidents' Birthday, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving (2 days), and NO burials on Christmas.

Lot Prices    Perpetual       Total Lot
      Lot Value       Care Fund        Price  
    Infant Lots
Sections H and S - flat markers only.
$  240.00 $   60.00$  300.00
    Full Lots
Garden I and IV - flat markers only.
Lots $  420.00 $  105.00$  525.00

Section K - Mausoleums, upright monuments, or flat markers.
2 Space Lot     $  880.00$  220.00$1,100.00
4 Space Lot     1,600.00    400.00  2,000.00

All other sections - upright monuments or flat markers.
Lots $  440.00 $  110.00$  550.00

    Cremation Lots
Garden VII - Flat markers only.
Lots $  144.00 $   36.00$  180.00

Other Fees
    Inspection fees
Monument placement   $  75.00
Marker placement        $   75.00 
Linwood Park Cemetery
609 Forest Avenue
Boone, IA 50036
515-432-6295
Neil Olson - nolson@city.boone.ia.us
Brent Shaw - bshaw@city.boone.ia.us


RULES AND REGULATIONS
*Rules and Regulations currently being updated to be in complinance with new state laws. 
For further information contact Neil Olson at 432-6295




RULES FOR VISITORS

Visitors are reminded that the cemetery grounds are sacredly devoted to the interment of the dead, and that a strict observance of the decorum which should be observed in such a place will be required.

1.Open hours are sunrise to sunset.

2.No dogs or horses are allowed on cemetery grounds.

3.Decorations are allowed on gravesites for one week before and one week after Memorial Day of each year.  After which time cemetery employees will collect and dispose of them.  Glass flower containers are prohibited.  During the mowing season flowers are allowed only in permanently installed vases and urns.  If flowers are not attended to regularly they will be removed. (See rules and regulations 7 & 8)

4.Automobiles, trucks, or other vehicles must not be driven at a speed exceeding ten miles an hour.  Vehicles must not turn in any of the drives, and care must be observed not to get off the roadways.  Snowmobiles and ATV's are prohibited from the cemetery.

5.All persons are prohibited from writing upon, defacing, or injuring any monument, marker, or any structure, in or belonging to the cemetery.

6.Persons with firearms will not be admitted to the grounds, except when participating at military funerals, Memorial Day Ceremony, and Veteran's Day Ceremony.

7.Any person disturbing the quiet and good order of the place by noise, or other improper conduct, will be compelled to leave the grounds.

8.All persons are prohibited from injuring any shrub, tree, or plant in any part of the cemetery or picking wild or cultivated flowers.


HISTORICAL INFORMATION

Linwood Cemetery (now known as "West Division" section) was founded June 9, 1866, and the original plot was purchased from McFarland and Hull.  Lots 341 and 372 were platted on July 28, 1880, and added to the original tract and was purchased from Bascomb.

The second addition was added November 18, 1892, and consisted of Lots 1 to 23 along the east line of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway and Lots 24 to 61 south of the original plat and was known as the "Stevens Addition.'

On July 25, 1895, a corporation, called "East Linwood Cemetery Association," was formed to establish and develop a cemetery east of the creek and providing for a permanent care fund.  The land for the new cemetery was purchased from Goodykoontz, Herman, and Wright.

On July 19, 1912, a new corporation was formed to take over both of the above cemeteries and place the whole under permanent care and this was done and called "Linwood Park Cemetery Association."

A new addition was opened for sale of lots October 1, 1963, located south of the East Linwood section consisting of about twelve acres of land with a wide circular hard surfaced roadway through the section giving access to all lots therein.  This new area is divided into VIII Gardens, and is known as Linwood Park Garden Section.  Except as to Garden V, Second Addition, the area is a memorial area.  Garden V, Second Addition, is on the west side of this area and will be a monument section, the remainder of the area is a memorial section and is governed by the same rules as set out for the Memorial Park Sections H, I, and J in the East Linwood Area. This new area is to be developed with appropriate shrubbery, cedar trees, and other types of trees and plantings.

On July 1, 1992, the cemetery operations were taken over by the City of Boone.

The gateway was presented by Charles Mason in June 1920.

The foundation was presented by S. R. Dyer in September 1921.

The office building was presented by J. H. Riekenberg in May 1939.

So far as the records show, the first burial in Linwood Cemetery was Lydia Lockwood on October 14, 1855, on Lot 21, West Division.

The following gives the date of the first interment in each of the several sections of the east division of Linwood Park Cemetery:

       Sec. A Jan. 1897 Sec. H Oct. 1940 Sec. W. Nov. 1913Gdn. VII Jan. 1998
Sec. B Feb. 1896 Sec. I Aug. 1942  Sec. X Sept. 1905
Sec. C Sept. 1896Sec. J Dec. 1940 Sec. Y July 1901
Sec. D Sept. 1904Sec. S Aug. 1914Sec. Z Feb. 1896
      Sec. E. Sept. 1910Sec. T Aug. 1914Gdn. I Sept. 1966
       Sec. F Sept. 1920Sec. U Apr. 1908 Gdn. IV Mar. 1966
Sec. G Jan. 1929  Sec. V Apr. 1908 Sec. K Aug. 1991

The cemetery lot and burial records are all made in duplicate, one set is kept at the cemetery office, in charge of the superintendent, the other at the office of the Boone City Clerk.