Re: CALVARY CEMETERY, PORTLAND, ME. 1890 +
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CALVARY CEMETERY, PORTLAND, ME. 1890 +
4/05/00
Calvary Cemetery is located in South Portland, Maine just over the bridge from Portland.I have many many ancestors that are buried there.
The address is:
Calvary Cemetery
1461 Broadway
South Portland, Maine 04106
If you do contact them by mail they like a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope to send your reply in.
Tel(207) 773-5796
Superintendent is Richard Nee. Mr. Nee is a very nice person. He helped my family sure up a large monument type marker last summer. He also cut down all of the overgrown tiger lilies at the old family plot. He even found a grave under all of the tiger lilies that he had not been able to find.
This cemetery is a very nice cemetery. It is very pretty, well maintained and peaceful. It is as you probably already know a Cathoic Cemetery.The "old" part is full and now there is the "new" part.
The office is open after 10am and there is a woman there that is wonderful at looking up information and telling you information. As of last summer they were not online so this woman has to go to the index cards and then to the "old" books and look up the information.I know that when I went there I was able to find out alot of info such as when a grave was consicrated. What the name of the funeral home was, the families next of kin, who purchased the plot, where the deceased person lived at the time of death and in some cases the name of the church that the deceased person attended, how many plots are owned by the particular family and all of who is buried there in the plots or lots.
You might also contact the Catholic Diocese of Portland.