Overlooking Lakeside Cemetery
A Note From Your Trustees

As fiscal year 2011 draws to an end, there are some things that are unfinished business.  At the annual membership meeting, October 10th election of trustees was conducted.  Ken Scheef and Chuck Hamsmith were re-elected.  The only nominations from the floor were Ron Oltman and Carol Madsen.  Ron Oltman was elected for a three year term as trustee.  LeeAnn Backstrom, a long time member of the board and past president had resigned her position... 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