Evergreen Cemetery

Evergreen cemetery has always been a place of consolation for our family. We have known many people who were entered here as well as our own three pre-born babies. Beautifully kept and lovingly tended by the staff here. The grounds are evidence that this is a place that is well respected and well protected.

Staff has always been helpful and friendly. Grounds are kept up.I would like to see the city increase funding for upkeep and renovations. Some of the old sites and buildings could really use it. This is a very large site and dates back many generations. I hope you don't feel that anything posted here was to be disrespectful in any way.

It was rich historical!! I wanted to honor George Veditz’s tombstone He was teacher at Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind in Colorado Springs. His famous quote “As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs.”

I spent an hour & a half just walking around the grounds. It is beautiful & so peaceful here. I walked through a group of 9 or 10 deer, saw countless geese & many squirrels. If you are looking for the historical blocks of this cemetery, look for blocks 20, 27 & 45 - 50. I have marked them on the uploaded map. These pictures are of the gravesite of Winfield Scott Stratton. He was a very influential millionaire & philanthropist during the founding days of Colorado Springs. **Disclaimer: These photos were taken on Block 72, not in the historical blocks mentioned above.

My stillborn babies, who I lost respectively in 2022 and 2023, are buried side by side. We always make a point to keep our gravesite beautiful with new silk flowers and everything always in the best condition. While I couldn’t ask for a more beautiful place to lay my children to rest, our decorations have been thrown away many times. The rules for decorations are ridiculous. They say they are trying to “keep the cemetery beautiful” but the ones who are there enjoying the beauty are the family members who have lost their loved ones and bring them decorations. We are weekly visitors and know other families who have loved ones in our lot who have expressed the same thing many times. We have a friend who went into the dumpster to save a Christmas wreath he had brought for his wife of 50 years. He said there were all sorts of things in there including religious statues, and tons of beautiful things in good condition. The rules should be relaxed to honor the families and cultures in the little things that families have left to honor and remember. The cemetery should only throw away worn, broken or dangerous items. The only way I can parent my lost children is to keep their graves beautiful and I have been heartbroken to find that the only gestures of love I have left to make are discarded over and over again. I’m speaking for a lot of frustrated families here. The staff has always been kind and once I do believe the decorations were I’m fact stolen. They say the homeless sometimes steal the Christmas decorations. I know this is not entirely the staff’s fault but also the rules, and they took some measures to warn people before with last cleanup, but there needs to be a petition to change this. I can’t think of anything more disrespectful to grieving families. There are a lot of infants in our row, several of whose families I have met, and our children’s (beautiful and meaningful) items continue to routinely be thrown out. Unacceptable.