St. John's Cemetery

St. John's Cemetery is located on Moose Hill Road in Monroe, Connecticut. It is a very new cemetery, previously the Monroe Airport which was active from 1940 until 1973. The earliest burials in the cemetery date from the 1980s. I found several intriguing monuments and inscriptions in St. John's, which features flat stones, upright memorials, and a few mausolea. Numerous veterans are interred here, notably many veterans of the Korean Campaign and Viet Nam.

Estimated number of interments, as of January 2024: at least 1328.

Photos taken 19 June 2012 and 3 April 2023.

The very large Martinez monument.

"Estrellita

Mi Amor

Estrella

Sept. 25, 1927

Jan. 14, 2009

Frank

Nov. 3, 1935"

"Until we meet again

Paul Michael

Dec. 21, 1947

May 30, 2016

May God hold you in the palm of his hand

REYNOLDS"

James Michael Edward

1984 - 2006

"Bratchell

Joseph A.

July 15, 1950

Oct. 30, 2011

Everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that can happen to me."

"United States Champion

Accordion Player

Third in World Champions

William Samonek

Died May 3, 2006

With Love from Mom & Dad"

Valentino mausoleum 

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