This was used to build an upgraded crematory unit. 2017 cemetery fell on hard times financially and neglect, so the Insurance Division for State of Iowa stepped and took over the cemetery.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Iowa is on a priority list for a new veterans' cemetery, an official with the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs said.

Since 2008, Palmersheim spearheaded Wreaths Across America at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery. KCCI visited with Palmersheim this past November as he was preparing for thousands of wreaths to be laid.

HAMPTON, Iowa — New grave markers are being installed to replace dozens of bronze plaques stolen from cemeteries near Hampton. "You can tell they're new. They're bright and shiny," said Barb ...

The name of a Revolutionary War veteran who had long been forgotten by history was carved into stone on the Iowa State ...

At a ceremony at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery in Adel Monday morning, Retired Army Master Sergeant Carol Whitmore said today is about more than barbecues and the start of summer.

Community members place their hands over their hearts while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance during a Memorial Day ceremony, Monday, May 29, 2023, at Oakland Cemetery in Iowa City, Iowa.

For more than a century in Des Moines’s Glendale Cemetery, the remains of 15 Union Civil War veterans rested in unmarked graves. They remained unmarked until Thursday, when the culmination of ...

Fairmount Cemetery and Crematory, established in 1881, boasts the first crematory in Iowa, which was created in 1890.