Arizona Veterans' Memorial Cemetery Foundation, Inc.
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A shrine to Veterans and their family members who have served our nation. Become a member! https://www.avmc-foundation.org/join-the-foundation
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15950 N Luckett Road
Marana, AZ
85653
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| Monday | 8am - 5pm |
| Tuesday | 9am - 5pm |
| Wednesday | 8am - 5pm |
| Thursday | 8am - 5pm |
| Friday | 8am - 5pm |
| Saturday | 10am - 5pm |
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Our History
I am pleased as I can be, to honor so many veterans, and friends in the dedication of the first Veterans Cemetery in the Tucson Metropolitan Area. That’s right, the very first ever, for the 130,000 veterans who live in our community.
Back on November 7th, 2007, Paul Marsh, started researching why we didn’t have a much-needed cemetery. Our Veterans Cemeteries must be 75 miles apart, by law, and part of Tucson was being serviced by Sierra Vista’s Veterans Cemetery. That’s a long way from the Tucson Area and the rest of the city of Tucson was still without a cemetery for our Veterans.
After much bureaucratic red tape, roadblocks, detours and “No you can’t do that," it appeared like there was no solution to dilemma and no Government, grant for construction either. If you draw a circle 75 miles in diameter around the Phoenix Federal VA Cemetery and the State Veterans Cemetery at Sierra Vista, it leaves land space for our final resting place right here in Marana.
However, you must have the title to the property to even get started with construction. We were fortunate that the Kai Family Foundation from the town of Marana graciously donated the land needed along I-10. The Kai family transferred the title to the Arizona Department of Veterans Services with one stipulation, or no deal. This property was to be used for a Veterans Cemetery only. Hallelujah. Now with the land, the Federal Veterans Administration granted us $7.6 million to build our cemetery, this beautiful 42 acres where we are located right now. After 8 years, 4 months and 21 days, we are proud to have our much needed resting place become a reality for our veterans. We were blessed to have the good Lord right with us all during this effort.
