Fort Snelling National Cemetery

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Fort Snelling National Cemetery - is located in 7601 34th Ave S., Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. The Fort Snelling cemetery was established in 1870 to serve as a burial ground for the soldiers who died while stationed at the post. Following World War I, as new legislation expanded the eligibility requirements for burial in a national cemetery, the citizens of St. Paul organized a petition to designate a national cemetery in their area. In 1937, Congress responded with legislation that authorized a portion of land at Fort Snelling Military Reservation for this purpose. Fort Snelling National Cemetery was established in 1939 with the first burial on July 5, of Capt. George H. Mallon, whose acts of heroism at Meuse-Argonne in France were recognized with the Congressional Medal of Honor. Following the dedication of the new cemetery, arrangements were made for the exhumation of the remains of those buried at the older post cemetery and the reinterment of the 680 soldiers who served from 1820-1939 buried in Fort Snelling National Cemetery. The 1930s were also a major boom era for national cemetery growth. Ft. Snelling is one of a dozen or so very large cemeteries conceived between World War I and World War II to serve large veteran populations in some cities.

Web address: http://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/ftsnelling.asp

The following people are buried here:
Burial1 Dec 1960Dewey Ervin Morical
BurialRobert William Pastorius
Burial26 Jun 1979Mabel Norsby
Burial4 Jun 1982Kenneth Erwing Hansing
BurialGrace Rebecca Current
BurialCharlotte Vivien Lavalla
Burial28 Aug 1991Marian Phylis Torkelson
BurialIone Daisy Lavalla
BurialRoger Glen Lavalla
Burial21 Jan 1994Kenneth Jordan Barnell
Burialafter 6 Apr 1994Leslie Mahan Setterquist
Burial24 May 1994Marcelinus M. Schwebach
Burialafter 2 Oct 2000Opal Ann Current
BurialRoger Douglas Weibye
Burial25 Nov 2003Russell Bruce Weibye
Burialafter 8 Oct 2007Larry Douglas Schwebach
Burial5 Feb 2010Walter Samuel Jungers
Burial4 Jan 2011Anna Maye Oldenkamp
BurialDarold Elmer Lavalla
Burial10 Sep 2012Alice Frieda Minke