Cemetery Benefits
Virginia Veterans Resource Guide
Cemeteries Virginia Department of Veterans Services
Cemetery Benefits The Virginia Department of Veterans Services’ three veterans’ cemeteries provide final resting places for our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen in places of honor, dignity, respect, and remembrance. Spouses and eligible dependent children may be interred in the same gravesite as the veteran, for a nominal fee. The grave space, columbarium niche, headstone/marker and vault or crypt are provided free- of-charge. This benefit also includes the use a facility for the committal service, military funeral honors, and perpetual care of the gravesite. These National Shrine-standard cemeteries are located in Amelia, Suffolk and Dublin. Each cemetery can accommodate in-ground burial of casketed remains, in-ground inurnment of cremated remains, and above-ground inurnment of cremated remains in a columbarium. Virginia Veterans Cemetery (Amelia) 10300 Pridesville Road, Amelia, VA 23002 (804) 561-1475 Albert G. Horton, Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery (Suffolk) 5310 Milners Road, Suffolk, VA 23434 (757) 255-7217 Southwest Virginia Veterans Cemetery (Dublin) 5550 Bagging Plant Road Dublin, VA 24084 (540) 674-6893
To learn more visit www.dvs.virginia.gov/cemeteries.
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