April 30, 2021 Our 65-acre cemetery in the Village of Allouez includes a 60,000-square-foot mausoleum and Wall of Honor for military veterans and their spouses. Allouez Catholic Cemetery faithfully serving all, from life to eternity. 2121 Riverside Drive, Green Bay, WI | (920) 432-7585 | allouezcatholiccemetery.com This advertising supplement is brought to you by Allouez Catholic Cemetery and is not under direction of The Compass editorial team. 2A | April 30, 2021 Allouez Catholic Cemetery THE COMPASS www.thecompassnews.org HISTORY SERVICES WE OFFER Allouez Catholic Cemetery At-NEED space and guessing the type of funeral service and opened in 1822 as memorial their loved one wanted. That’s why it is best for Shantytown Cemetery and is We offer you our deepest condolences during this everyone to decide and purchase well in advance. among the oldest cemeteries challenging time. Our caring and compassionate staff is in Green Bay and Wisconsin. here to walk with you through this emotional process to Benefits of Advance Planning Before that, Catholics ensure that your wishes for your loved one’s final needs ✜ Allouez Catholic Cemetery Pre-planning were buried at LaBaye are fulfilled. Togetherness: These important choices should not Cemetery at the intersection be left to one person. Together, you can fully discuss We are here to help in your time of need through: what is best for you and your loved one. of Washington and Adams ✜ Our caring and compassionate staff. ✜ Emotional Control: Make clear and thoughtful streets in downtown Green ✜ Traditional, in-ground burial in this historic cemetery. decisions without the overwhelming grief and sorrow Bay. As the then-Town of ✜ Entombment in our indoor chapel or outdoor garden Astor grew in 1834-1835, the graves were moved to that occur after death. mausoleums, or in your own private mausoleum. ✜ Financial Advantages: Purchasing at today’s Allouez Catholic Cemetery. The former cemetery is ✜ Inurnment in-ground, in a mausoleum, indoor or now a fire station. discounted, pre-need prices will ease future financial outdoor niche, or outdoor memorial bench. burdens for your family. ✜ The first Western Hemisphere church staffed by For veterans and their spouses, a customized ✜ Location: Choose a final resting place appropriate Redemptorist priests — who arrived in Green Bay on entombment or inurnment in our Wall of Honor. for you. August 31, 1832 — was built at the cemetery. PRE-NEED PLANNING ✜ Peace of Mind: Knowing you’ve made these loving, A marker designates the location. In the short, confusing time between the death and burial responsible decisions for the people you most care for. Our 65-acre cemetery in the Village of Allouez of a loved one, many family members find they are More than 50% of Americans ages 45-75 have already includes a 60,000-square-foot mausoleum and Wall unprepared — rushing to buy cemetery or mausoleum pre-planned! of Honor for military veterans and their spouses. Among the 32,000 interments/entombments are former Bishops Melcher, Fox, Rhode, Bona and Wycislo. Former Green Bay Packers Curly Lambeau, TYPES OF BURIALS OUTDOOR GARDEN MAUSOLEUMS Tony Canadeo and Dale Livingston, a postmaster Outdoor mausoleums offer a wide general and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Allouez Catholic Cemetery is able to respectfully variety of remembrance options, are also interred/entombed here. accommodate your personal, familial, emotional, financial such as a garden area, patio or and spiritual preferences. Traditional ground burial is courtyard. This type of entombment The cemetery overlooks the Fox River and Lambeau offered along with indoor and outdoor mausoleum is ideal for those who prefer an Field. alternatives, and many styles of dignified cremation above-ground accommodation Allouez Catholic Cemetery, faithfully serving all from memorials. Our experienced Family Service Counselors but also want the openness of the life to eternity. will assist you in deciding which memorial best fits your outdoors. Unique landscaping and needs and expectations. statuary features throughout these CEMETERY BURIAL areas provide a tranquil setting and lasting impression for Traditional in-ground burial visiting loved ones. allows the utmost individual PRIVATE MAUSOLEUMS Cemetery & preference and memorial Private mausoleums offer a Mausoleum Locations customization on our meticulously unique opportunity to establish maintained grounds. Personalized a personal and family-specific of the Deceased memorials can be simple or memorial in a prominent manner. elaborate, making ground burial If you are interested in locating a loved one, Private mausoleums afford an both flexible and affordable for we are able to look up the names in our outlet to express a family’s any budget. Graves are available in any number, from heritage and to ensure members database and provide visitors with a map to a single site to large, sectioned-off family estates that of that family are forever close to locate their loved one. provide enough space for generations well into the future. one another. MAUSOLEUM ENTOMBMENT Mausoleum entombment is CREMATION INURNMENT increasingly popular. Our broad The simplicity, dignity and Bishops range of entombment styles, in affordability of cremation makes The following bishops are resting in the Allouez Catholic three basic categories, are tailored it an increasingly popular choice Cemetery: to personal and family preference among U.S. Christians. We offer at a cost usually comparable with a wide variety of cremation niche • Bishop Joseph Melcher, ground burial. spaces and memorialization options First Bishop of Green Bay (1868-1873) In addition to individual crypts, we throughout our properties. • Bishop Joseph John Fox, offer three types of double crypts: We offer several options for indoor Fifth Bishop of Green Bay (1904-1914) ✜ “true-companion” (two and outdoor inurnment: lengthwise entombments); • Bishop Paul Peter Rhode, ✜ Indoor: Stained glass, marble, glass and bronze ✜ “side-by-side companion” (two entombments next to Sixth Bishop of Green Bay (1914-1945) niches. each other); ✜ Outdoor: Cremation benches and rocks, cemetery • Bishop Stanislaus Vincent Bona, ✜ “abbey” (one entombment below floor-level and one cremation burial and outdoor niches. Seventh Bishop of Green Bay (1945-1967) above it). TRELLIS UNITS • Bishop Aloysius Wycislo, Prices vary by location and classification. For example: Trellis units allow you Eighth Bishop of Green Bay (1968-1983) upper-level crypts are less expensive than eye-level crypts. to view a beautiful urn INDOOR CHAPEL MAUSOLEUMS of your loved one. Two Indoor chapel mausoleums offer various types of interior new trellis units have areas surrounding a dedicated recently been installed functioning chapel that is used for in our mausoleum. committal services and communal URNS Masses. These indoor facilities The Allouez Catholic Cemetery requires buriable urns. provide elegant, climate-controlled These urns are available for purchase. If a buriable urn is settings for year-round visitation not being used, we require an urn vault, also available for and are highlighted by peaceful purchase at the office. liturgical features. MONUMENTS & MARKERS Let our experts assist your decision on what is available and acceptable in the Allouez Catholic Cemetery. ✜ Grave markers/monuments ✜ Cremation rocks ✜ Cremation benches ✜ Memory benches THE COMPASS Allouez Catholic Cemetery April 30, 2021 | 3A www.thecompassnews.org DECORATION RULES & RESTRICTIONS MEET OUR STAFF LAWN CRYPTS SPRING CLEAN UP—APRIL 1 ✜ Decorations shall consist of spike urns or planters with FALL CLEAN UP—OCTOBER 1 live plants (April 1 to Sept. 30). Mary Breivogel ✜ All spring/summer spike urns and planters must be Administrator removed by family by Sept. 30. The Allouez Catholic (920) 432-7585 FLORAL DECORATIONS Cemetery will not store the spike urns. [email protected] ✜ Artificial decorations ARE allowed: *Oct. 1 to March 31 (artificial decorations and evergreen wreaths). WALL OF HONOR ✜ Items MUST be removed by March 31. Benches can have ONE spike urn, placed on the right ✜ Artificial decorations ARE NOT allowed: *April 1 side of the bench. Spike urns must be in line with the Karen Bass to Sept. 30. Dates are subject to change at the bench, not in front of or behind the bench. Family Services Counselor ✜ discretion of cemetery management due to weather ONE flower pot is allowed per crypt or niche and (920) 432-7585 must be placed on the concrete across from the conditions; any such changes will be posted. Items [email protected] MUST be removed by Sept. 30. Flower pots removed crypts. Any pots put by the crypts or niches will be by Allouez Cemetery staff will be discarded. moved. ✜ Small American flags are allowed in the spike urns SHRUBS and pots, but cannot be placed in the ground. Lynne Rasmussen ✜ Any in-ground planting of shrubs must be pre- ✜ No other decorations are allowed at the Wall of Family Services Counselor authorized through the cemetery office. Honor Military area. This includes, but is not limited (920) 432-7585 ✜ Any shrub becoming unsightly or overgrown will be to: solar lights, memory rocks, pictures, statues, other removed by cemetery staff. small decorations, or items attached to crypt and [email protected] ✜ Any shrub removed from a gravesite to accommodate niche fronts. These items will be removed. a burial will not be replaced by the cemetery; it will ✜ Christmas wreaths with bows for the winter months are be the responsibility of the holder of burial rights for allowed and must follow the same rules as spike urns Tracy Mulkey replacement. and flower pots. Wreaths must be removed by March Office Assistant ✜ The cemetery is not responsible for watering of shrubs. 31. (920) 432-7585 ✜ Examples of allowable shrubs: certain types of Weigela, Boxwood, Spirea (Gold Mound, Little WINTER DECORATIONS [email protected] ✜ Princess, Magic Carpet). Spike urns are to be removed prior to Oct. 1. ✜ ✜ Mulch and stone are not allowed around bushes. Winter decorations may be placed after Oct. 1 and ✜ Perennials are not allowed. may consist of wreaths or other decorations.