Greenwood Cemetery - Veteran Section - Kellogg, Idaho
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Greenwood Cemetery is located, of course, on Cemetery Road off Alhambra Avenue.
Waymark Code: WMXKEF
Location: Idaho, United States
Date Posted: 01/24/2018
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Greenwood Cemetery Veterans' Section is towards the back of the cemetery with military graves surrounding the area. The grave stones are mostly flush to the ground. In this area is a Veterans' memorial with the plaque attached to the center front with crests of U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corp, Coast Guard and Air Force below the plaque. There is a row of American flags lining the roadway leading to the Veterans' section.
Frank Stanley Reasoner, Vietnam War Medal of Honor Recipient, is at rest in the Greenwood Cemetery.
Greenwood Cemetery is located in Shoshone County, Idaho. Kellogg is in the Idaho Panhandle in the Silver Valley region. Kellogg has a population of approximately 2,075 residents.
In 1885, Noah Kellogg discovered an outcropping of Galena high on a hillside above Milo Gulch. This discovery spurred the settlements of Wardner and Kellogg, and later became the famous Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines.
Greenwood Cemetery is approximately 14 acres in size and is beautifully maintained. At the entrance there are two American Flags and as you continue on there is a row of flags nearing the Veterans' section of the cemetery. There is a Veterans' memorial surrounded by flush grave markers of local veterans. Greenwood Cemetery was established around 1913 and has approximately 5,226 known interments.
In Honor of All Veterans
Date cemetery was established: 1913
Visiting hours:
Dawn to Duck
Website pertaining to the cemetery: [Web Link]
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