Kentucky Veterans Cemetery North East

Kentucky Veterans Cemetery North East opened in October 2010. As of June 30, 2011, it has interred more than 90 veterans and dependents.

Wreaths Across America 2011

About 100 people attended the Wreaths Across America ceremony at Kentucky Veterans Cemetery North East on Saturday, Dec. 10.

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Veterans Day 2011

Memorial Day 2011

KVCNE held its first Memorial Day Ceremony since opening last fall.

View more photos from the event here.

Memorial Walk Open

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Veterans Day 2010

KVCNE's First Veterans Day Ceremony took place on Thursday, Nov. 11 from noon to 2 p.m. with AMVETS Post 95. The guest speaker was Rep. Tanya Pullin, and veterans speaker was be Dr V. Patrick Bell, a Retired Air Force Sgt Major and a former Merchant Marine.

KYNG 201st Engineer Battalion posted the Colors, and Boyd Co. H.S. ROTC placed memorial wreaths at the base of the service and POW flags.

AMVETS Post 95 served refreshments.

Generous Gift

Roger and Bambi Reed of Reed Funeral Home in Greenup donated this large framed aerial view of the new cemetery.

KVCNE participated in its first Wreaths Across America ceremony on December 11, 2010.

Korean War veteran and recipient of the Medal of Honor Ernie West leads Shriners to place wreaths at the base of the service flags in KVCNE's first Wreaths Across America ceremony.

National and state veterans cemeteries nationwide lay wreaths at veterans tombstones on that date.

Governor Leads Groundbreaking
 for Kentucky Veterans Cemetery North East

From left, Carlos Pugh of Veterans of Foreign Wars,
Governor Beshear,
Senator Robin Webb,
Frank Salvas Sr. of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Rep. Tanya Pullin, and KDVA Commissioner Ken Lucas.

Read the press release here.

Read the article in the Ashland Daily Independent here. 

See photos here.

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Kentucky Veterans Cemetery North East is located on approximately 75 acres on East Park Drive off Highway 67 and Industrial Parkway off I-64 in Greenup County, approximately one half-mile north of U.S. Highway 64 at the Boyd, Carter and Greenup County border. Construction includes an  administration building (~3,600 square feet), a maintenance building (~4,400 square feet) with service area, committal facility and a columbarium. Appropriate parking, road network, walking path and landscaping commensurate with the dignity and honor for a state veteran’s cemetery.

Construction and initial equipment for KVCNE cost  $6.1 million. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs reimbursed the state for construction, and the state pays the operating costs.

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Director Frank Kees
Kentucky Veterans Cemetery North East
100 Veterans Memorial Drive
Greenup County, Kentucky 41143

Phone:  606-929-5354
Fax:      606-929-5347

Email:  KDVA.KVCNE@ky.gov

Qualifications

Burial in a state veteran's cemetery is based on military service. The eligibility criteria is the same criteria for burial in VA national cemeteries. KDVA staff will direct requests for interment to staff at the cemetery where burial is sought.

Services

Total interment services include:

• Furnishing grave or columbarium space
• Opening and closing the grave
• Providing the interment site with perpetual care
• Supplying a suitable marker or headstone
• Furnishing an optional concrete grave liner for all casketed burials

NOTE on markers and headstones:  Although the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs offers flat marble or bronze markers in addition to upright bronze and marble headstones, KDVA permits only upright marble headstones and marble columbarium niche markers at our state cemeteries.