Masonic Cemetery — Local services in Las Cruces

This place has no respect! I gave one star because I had to. It would not let me post a review giving this place 0 stars. buried at Masonic Cemetery since 1992. After he passed my family moved out of state and we weren't able to get visit him as much as we would have liked. I have recently moved back to the area and found that there are several things at this place that aren't right. First of all, the cemetery personal has removed everything my family and I have placed at his grave throughout the years. It was to the point where I could not locate his grave site. I asked the manager what happened and she was very rudely told me that everything we placed there was no longer allowed and if I read the sign on the door I would have known. She has no compassion or respect for anyone. She is only out to make as much money as she can. As the days went by I made more and more stops by the cemetery to visit my father. Upon walking around his grave site, I found that they have Military headstones thrown behind a garage building. I have never seen such disrespect in my life. There are beer cans and trash scattered about. There several are piles of flowers, name plates, etc., that are shoved into piles behind trees. There are headstones that have been pushed from there cement bases and have been pushed to the side. This is unacceptable. Everyone deserves to be honored in a respectable way but those veterans who served our country should never be disrespected in such a way. We used to be able to feel the love when visiting our father before the change in management. Now we are scared to put anything on his gravesite for fear that it will be removed and discarded, even though we are following the "rules". Shame on you Masonic Cemetery....

My daughter passed away in December 2009, at the age of 17. Over the past 12 years of her being laid to rest at Masonic Cemetery, I have slowly watched the graveyard deteriorate under a new, uncaring and inconsiderate management. What was once a beautiful and peaceful place to go visit my daughters grave, has turned into a nightmare. I went over to check on her grave after church this afternoon and came across what looked like a scene out of a horror film. Several of the graves had been flooded to the point of erosion around the casket. You read that correctly, the caskets were exposed! You could smell the embalming fluid and the bodies from the opened graves! If I would’ve known for a moment that this was the kind of place my daughter would be resting in, I would’ve had her buried elsewhere. This place is disrespectful to those who are resting there, as well as to those whom have loved ones resting there. My advice? Find...

One star only to leave a review. My dad passed away a year ago today, his headstone is ready and 100% paid for and the Cemetary has still not set it! The man who engraved the stone could have set it, but the cemetery wouldn’t let him. It has caused unnecessary grief for the family, especially my elderly mom. Not impressed! Chris Mitchell returned my call. In the background I over heard his conversation. He was telling a woman, “I got the call, he’s been passed away for a year, the concrete should have been poured. I told them it would be done in three weeks.” The woman responded, “If she’s going to be calling everyday and bugging, we can just put her in the grave with her father.” I asked Chris who is that woman? He said, “my daughter. That’s the heart of this Cemetary....