DECLO CITY CEMETERY

DECLO, CASSIA COUNTY , IDAHO

  In the spring of 1918, Bishop Lorenzo E. Olsen, John C. Darrington and Clark Darrington went to look at the high ground on the Will Curtis place and decided it would be a good location for a cemetery.  Not long afterwards a public meeting was called to present the proposition to the people.

      L.A. Gillett made the first payment to Mr. Curtis for the purchase of the ground.  For the first few years’ funeral processions would go through the yard and field by the rock house on the hill owned by Olaf Engstrom.  Finally, a road way was secured from Anson Parke and Heber Thorne, where it is now, and the entrance has been there ever since.

DEDICATION

To all the families that lived or currently live in Declo, Idaho that have loved ones interned in this special place. 
This little hill is a very hallowed place…. My people are here.

Interstate 84 to “Declo Exit” # 216;
Turn South on Hwy 77 – Declo 3 miles.
At first intersection (where Hwy 77 connects with Hwy 81)
Turn West (right) on Hwy 81- proceed 2/10 mile.
Turn Right on to Cemetery Road . 
Proceed 3/10 mile
Cemetery on your Left.