91569 Highway 202 Astoria, Oregon 97103
Greenwood Cemetery
Greenwood Cemetery:
A place to celebrate memories
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From across the country and around the world, people from all walks of life come to Greenwood Cemetery to search, to ponder, or to wander. Some come to find an ornament missing from the family tree, or to discover the final resting place of relatives they never met. Others come to honor fallen comrades or loved ones gone too soon. Some come simply to walk the halls of history again. Come to Greenwood. Walk the gentle slopes of yesterday. Look up...look around...stretch your eyes, your soul. Let the wind in the trees whisper peace to a troubled heart. Let the raindrops mask tears. Let the warmth of the sun help you smile again. Then go, and live more fully.
Cemetery Services
Monuments and Headstones: Lynda Leamy enjoys working with families to design memorials for loved ones at Greenwood Cemetery. Partnering with OMStone of Hillsboro, Oregon, Lynda can offer a wide array of stock or personalized designs engraved in granite or embellished with 'glass art' and priced competitively. The difficult decisions of marker type, style, size, and personalization can be made easier with an experienced designer. Please contact Lynda at tranquility.theoregonshore@gmail.com.
Plots: Greenwood Cemetery, while historic and a pioneer cemetery, is an active, full-service cemetery. Spaces are available for purchase in the pioneer section for casket burial. Any full-burial space will accommodate up to six urns for those who choose cremation, with three markers. We will place one or two urns beneath each stone. The pioneer section allows either flat markers or memorials and monuments that stand above lawn level.
The Crestview section is limited to flat markers only, except for designated locations where memorial benches may be placed.
Columbarium: Spaces are also available in designated urn burial areas. For those who prefer above-ground inurnment, niche space is available in the rose garden columbarium.
For current prices, please e-mail astoriagreenwoodcemetery@gmail.com .
Search Greenwood Records Online: To search online for a specific grave or site availability, please either navigate to the "Grave Search" tab on the menu or click here.
A Bit About Us
We enjoy the quiet rural setting of Greenwood Cemetery and the visitors who endure the tales of an Irish storyteller. The smiles of a Scots lassie set many at ease, even in the difficult days that bring them to the cemetery. Teachers by training and cemeterians by experience, we have served local families and global visitors for more than three decades, helping both the sorrowing and the searching. Lending an ear, sharing a hug or a cuppa, as a couple, we have worked together to meet the cemetery-related needs, as well as emotional or spiritual needs, of those who come to Greenwood.
We work together to care for the cemetery and see ourselves as stewards of the area's story written on over a century of stones. If we can help in times of grief, or with pre-planning services, cemetery property, or memorial stones, please let us know. We look forward to meeting you.
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~Michael and Lynda Leamy
Opportunities for Involvement
Service Projects
Time and nature have taken their toll on the monuments at Greenwood Cemetery, and preservation is an ongoing battle.
We are always looking for groups that wish to help make a real difference by lending their support. Service groups, schools, and Scout projects are invited to learn how they can help preserve this vital historical cemetery and its monuments.
Donations
The spirits of dearly departed locals will rise for an afternoon of fun history during the annual “Talking Tombstones,” presented by the Clatsop County Historical Society. The free event takes place from 1 to 4 p.m., usually on the last Sunday in October at alternating cemeteries in Astoria.
The Historical Society recruits talented community members to prepare vignettes of ten characters each year. The actors stand by the gravestone of the person they have been assigned, and after much research and preparation, that person will be brought back to life before small groups who rotate through the cemetery.
“One thing I love about this program is that cemeteries are filled with people, and those people have stories; unless you make a point of telling these stories, they will be forgotten,” said McAndrew Burns, the Historical Society’s executive director. “It’s a way to remind people.” (excerpt from Astoria Coast Weekend)
We are grateful for all donations that assist us in providing services to maintain the cemetery property and its monuments, so that its legacy can be preserved far into the future.
Non-monetary in-kind donations, such as materials, useful equipment, and repair services, are welcome, as are most volunteer efforts.
Monetary donations can be made payable to Greenwood Cemetery and brought in person or mailed to the cemetery.
Although Greenwood Cemetery is not a formal 501(c)(3) or 501 (c)(13), it is a registered non-profit with the State of Oregon, and the federal government recognizes a public cemetery as a non-profit by default. However, we are unable to provide a tax receipt, so please consult your tax advisor if you require more information.
Talking Tombstones
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