Overlooking Lakeside Cemetery
A Note From Your Trustees

It is again time for the quarterly newsletter from the central information center of Lakeside Cemetery.  First, I hope you are having a pleasant hot and humid summer - this must be the reason so many of us stay here in the summer.  It has been good for the turf and trees, but the wind has caused some unwanted pruning of our trees by "dear old mother nature."

We are attempting to keep the grounds as well kept as we can with the weather... 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