Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Fernley, Nevada

Date: 1990
Location: Fernley, Lyon, Nevada, United States
Surnames/tags: Cemeteries Lyon County

General Information

Cemetery Name: Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery

Address: 14 Veterans Way, Fernley, Nevada 89408 United States

Office Hours - Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Cemetery Open: 24 hours a day; (775) 575-4441

GPS Coordinates: (GPS coordinates are a great way to add the location of a burial site to a memorial and can make it much easier for people to find and visit a headstone or grave) 39.61870, -119.22910

Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery

The cemetery serves as a place of rest and reflection where eligible veterans, their spouses and eligible dependents are remembered and honored in perpetuum

The cemetery is 35 miles east of Reno and is adjacent to Interstate 80, in Fernley, Nevada. Right below the mountains of the Northern Nevada Trinity Mountain Range sits the 43 acre cemetery.

Northern end of the Columbarium

All buildings and monuments are ADA accessible with ramps leading to the main flag, the POW-MIA flag and the State of Nevada flag at the northern end of the columbarium.

The Northern Nevada Memorial Cemetery is the first Memorial Cemetery in Nevada to test the long term feasibility of a polymer material embedded within the soil for capturing and retaining moisture by limiting water evaporation in dry arid environments.

History

In 1978, Congress established the State Cemetery Grants Program (Public Law 95-476), Nevada approved for 2 (Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery & Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery.

42,964 veterans and family members are interred in one of the two cemeteries as of December 2014.

Each Memorial Day, fallen soldiers are honored. The remains of sixteen unclaimed veterans were interred in the cemetery and a ceremony honoring them was held.

Notable Interments

Ret Lieutenant General Martin Louis Brandtner was born on 3 Jul 1938 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, the son of Alex Peter and Ida Marie (Kjelstad) Brandtner. General Brandtner passed away on 3 Jan 2017 in Reno, Washoe, Nevada at the age of 78.

Martin Brandtner (1938–2017), United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General Martin Louis Brandtner (1938-2017) and Find A Grave: Memorial #175198126

Lieutenant General Martin L. Brandtner (1938 - 2017)

Eligibility

Eligibility for burial is similar to the criteria used by the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration. However, the cemetery is responsible for verifying eligibility and should be contacted directly for specifics by calling 775-575-4441

More Information

• See the Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery category for profiles of those who have been documented at this cemetery.
• Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery
• FindAGrave
• National Grave Locator
• Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery Brochure
• 16 Nevada Unclaimed Veterans to Receive Military Funeral in Fernley