Grant will improve Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery
WASHINGTON – Continuing its mission of providing a final resting place for Nevada veterans that honors their service, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced a $2.3 million grant to improve the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in BoulderCity.
“This grant will help to improve memorial services to Nevada veterans,” said Dr. James B. Peake, Secretary of Veterans Affairs. “We are proud to partner with the Nevada Office of Veterans Services.”
The cemetery primarily serves 180,000 veterans and their dependents who live in the vicinity of Las Vegas and surrounding areas in southern Nevada. The grant will fund construction of a new maintenance facility and a service yard on three acres. It will also pay for design and construction administration and associated infrastructure such as roads, utilities, landscaping and irrigation.
Nevada has one other state veterans cemetery in Fernley.
VA’s State Cemetery Grants Program complements VA’s 125 national cemeteries across the country. The program helps states establish new veterans cemeteries and expand or improve existing cemeteries. To date, the VA program has helped establish 72 state veterans cemeteries in 38 states and U.S. territories that provided more than 23,000 burials in fiscal year 2007. Since the program began in 1980, VA has awarded 172 grants totaling $344 million.
Information on VA burial benefits can be obtained from national cemetery offices, from the VA Web site on the Internet at www.cem.va.gov or by calling VA regional offices toll-free at 1-800-827-1000.
Information about Nevada’s state veterans cemeteries is available by calling the Nevada Office of Veterans Services at (775) 688-1653 or on the Internet at www.veterans.nv.gov/Cemeteries/Cemetery.html.
