Overlooking Lakeside Cemetery
A Note From Your Trustees

Well, as they say in this part of the country, SPRING has "SPRUNG" and it looks like we have a good start for the upcoming season.  The snow is finally gone and has left its nasty residue in its wake.  There is some damage to the young trees from our friendly herd of thirty deer. They must have run out of forage and decided our young trees were fair game. We will work hard to keep the trees alive and just hope they make it to maturity.

The seasonal urn care program has been cancelled as it wasn't in the best financial interest of the cemetery. There are several companies that can provide the same service... Read More

About Us

Lakeside Cemetery, situated on 58 acres on the shore of George Lake in Fairmont, MN, is owned and managed by the Fairmont Cemetery Association.

The first recorded burial on this site, December 6, 1868, was a child named Carrie Waterman.  George Tanner, the homestead owner of the property, had given her father permission to bury his daughter here.  Five days later, former Canadian Louis LaBoute, aged 102, was buried there... Read More