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PLEASANT RIDGE CEMETERY

17666 VALENTINE ROAD, MOUNT VERNON, WA  98273

May 2023

Please plan to attend the annual Memorial Day service on Monday, May 29th at 9:00 am.  All are welcome to attend the 45 minute celebration.  Limited seating available.  Commissioners will be available to answer questions or address concerns.  

There are many plots currently available for purchase.  Residents of the Skagit Cemetery District may purchase lots for $400.00.  Non-residents are charged $800.00.

Cemetery regulations currently allow one burial and two cremations on a single plot.

Contact Commissioners Tim Goodman 360-391-1865  timgdm@frontier.com  or Rick Anderson at 360-466-3427 

A BRIEF HISTORY:

Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, the oldest cemetery in Skagit County, Washington, is located two and one half miles east of the town of La Conner, on a promontory of land in the Skagit River delta known as Pleasant Ridge. This steep island of rock and trees lies in a northwest/southeast direction and is three and three-quarter miles long and one and one-quarter mile wide. It was once surrounded by saltwater marshes. Today Pleasant Ridge is surrounded by rich farmland on three sides and by the North Fork of the Skagit River on the south end.  Pleasant Ridge Cemetery is located on high ground on the north end of this promontory at 17666 Valentine Road.  The first portion of the cemetery to be used is closest to Valentine Road inside the welcoming archway. It contains the graves of many of Skagit County’s earliest pioneers  The Pleasant Ridge Cemetery has been managed and controlled by Skagit County Cemetery District 1 since 1956. There are approximately 2,500 people buried in the cemetery, over 200 of them are military veterans. The cemetery district provides lawn and monument care and the purchase of burial sites. They have also held an annual Memorial Day service at the cemetery since before 1892 when it was known as Decoration Day.