GENERAL INFORMATION

To schedule a burial: Fax all discharge documentation to the National Cemetery Scheduling Office at 1-866-900-6417 and follow-up with a phone call to 1-800-535-1117.

There are instances when you should contact the National Cemetery directly such as:

• Scheduling an Active Duty interment
• Cancelling or rescheduling an interment
• Changing information originally supplied to the scheduling center
• Request for disinterment and/or relocation to another national cemetery

The Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery was dedicated and opened for burials on May 12, 2000.  The cemetery is situated on a 638.5-acre parcel of land that overlooks picturesque Mountain Creek Lake.  The gently rolling hills provide a pastoral setting for visitors as they proceed along the central boulevard to the small lake adjacent to the assembly area and committal shelters.

The Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery has a Public Information Center (PIC) where visitors can obtain information from an automated KIOSK or from volunteers who staff the PIC seven days a week from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The KIOSK contains the names of veterans and their eligible dependents buried at the cemetery. The KIOSK will generate a printed map with the name of the decedent and their grave location.

All funeral processions meet with their family, clergy, and cemetery representative at the PIC and then proceed to the designated shelter or gravesite.

Military Funeral Honors
The local military honor groups are comprised of a combination of active duty members and full-time reserve members who provide military honors to all veterans buried at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery.  On occasion, members of veteran service organizations also participate in providing supplemental military honors by providing a three-person rifle detail or live bugler.

After a cemetery staff member confirms your service time please schedule military honors by contacting the following:

• For retired Marine Corps Only, phone 866-826-3628.
• All other services call 325-696-1597 or 325-696-5532 and fax the honorable discharge document to 325-696-5707.

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HISTORICAL INFORMATION

Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery is the sixth national cemetery in Texas and the 118th in the national cemetery system.

Currently, more than 1.5 million veterans live in the state of Texas and approximately 460,000 reside in the cemetery’s service area. The first phase of construction encompassed 110 acres of the 638-acre cemetery for 12,000 projected gravesites, 2,000 lawn crypts and 2,200 columbaria/garden niches for cremated remains. Fully developed, Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery will provide burial space for 280,000 eligible veterans and dependents.

Monuments and Memorials
Dallas-Ft. Worth National Cemetery features a memorial walkway lined with a variety of memorials that honor America’s veterans, donated by various organizations. As of 2007, there were 54 memorials at Dallas-Ft. Worth National Cemetery—most commemorating events and troops of the 20th century wars.
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NOTABLE PERSONS

Others
Cloyde Pinson, Sr., Founder of the Texas National Cemetery Foundation (Section 76, Grave 1702B).
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FLORAL/GROUNDS REGULATIONS

Cemetery policies are conspicuously posted and readily visible to the public.

Floral arrangements accompanying the casket or urn at the time of burial will be placed on the completed grave.  Please limit your gravesite arrangements to:

One arrangement for cremation sites
Two arrangements for casketed sites

Please follow the floral regulations:

Natural Cut Flowers are allowed all year.

Potted Plants and Artificial Flowers are allowed 10 days prior thru 10 days after any given holiday.

Christmas Decorations such as wreaths, grave blankets and other seasonal adornments may be placed on graves from Dec. 1 through Jan. 20

UNAUTHORIZED ITEMS:

• Permanent plantings
• Statues
• Vigil lights
• Fencing or border
• Breakable objects
• Alcoholic beverages
• Items of high value personal or monetary
• Photographs
• Items cannot be affixed to the stone in any manner for example stickers, decals or wiring etc.
• Any adornment considered offensive

Removal: All items will be removed when they become unsightly, when it becomes necessary to facilitate cemetery operations such as mowing or if they fall within the items not allowed.

Current Events:  With all of the construction and projects going on throughout the cemetery and on the main roads to the cemetery we would like to inform every one of the following.

Please excuse our progress as we are under construction due to several gravesite expansion projects and infrastructure improvements.  We are hoping to complete these necessary enhancements by 2010.  As a result of the expansion we will be able to provide additional burial sites, committal shelter and roadways which will allow us to better serve our Nation's veterans and their loved ones.

Mountain Creek Parkway and Illinois Avenue are currently under construction with an estimated completion date of 2010. Additional lanes and wider roads will allow for a much easier arrival once completed.
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