Current News
Current cemetery news and events are summarized below. Detailed information can be obtained by clicking on the summary line or scrolling down.
Mt. Olivet Gardening Club Gathering - May 10
We’re forming the Mt. Olivet Gardening Club with the first gathering scheduled for Saturday, May 10, from 9am to 12noon. Please volunteer to help maintain and enhance cemetery grounds, including our new Infant Memorial Garden, Family Garden, and Welcome Garden.
This is the first of what we hope will become regular gatherings throughout the year. Click here for more information and to sign up, or email us or call the office to leave a message.
Veterans Gravestone Cleaning Workshops - May 17 & May 20
Two Military Veteran Gravestone Cleaning Workshops, led by Elaine Brinley, will be held on Saturday, May 17, from 9am to 12noon and Tuesday, May 20, from 5:30pm to 7:30. These follow her successful workshop last fall with dozens of volunteers and Cedar Cliff HS JROTC Cadets. Over the past three years, 240 gravestones of veterans and their families have been cleaned.
Please join one of the workshops! To sign up, click on the links below or email us or call the office to leave a message.
Sign up for Saturday, May 17 at 9am.
Sign up for Tuesday, May 20 at 5:30pm.
You can view a video of the cleaning process in the video below. In that section you can also donate to fund more cleaning.
Veterans Memorial Event - May 22
Our annual salute to over 500 Military Veterans lying-in-peace at Mt. Olivet will be held Thursday, May 22, from 12noon to 2pm.
Join Veterans’ Families, American Legion members, Cedar Cliff and Red Land JROTC Cadets, Scouts, VFW members, and community leaders to give thanks, place small US flags on individual gravesites for the upcoming Memorial Day Weekend, and salute our soldiers as a new US Flag is raised at the Memorial Flagpole and “Taps” echoes throughout the cemetery.
Click here for more information and to RSVP, or you can RSVP by emailing us or calling the office.
We thank ABC27 WHTM-TV for telling our story…
https://www.abc27.com/local-news/new-cumberland-cemetery-prepares-for-memorial-day/
Mt. Olivet Family & Friends Meeting - September 28, 2025
All current and prospective families and friends are invited to our Annual Family & Friends Meeting on September 28, 2025, from 1pm to 2:30pm.
It’s a wonderful opportunity to get to better know one another, hear about the latest happenings, and provide input for continued improvements.
Please let us know if you’ll be attending so we can best prepare. Click here to RSVP or call or email the cemetery.
Wreaths Across America - December 13
On December 13, 2025 at 12:00 pm, Wreaths for Mt. Olivet Cemetery, New Cumberland, PA will Remember and Honor our Veterans by laying Remembrance wreaths on the graves of our country’s heroes.
Please help us honor and remember our 518 veterans by sponsoring remembrance wreaths, volunteering on Wreaths Day, or inviting your family and friends to attend with you.
Visit our Wreaths Across America page to sponsor wreaths and more.
Veteran Gravestone Restoration and Contribution Request!
Over 240 gravestones of veterans and their families have been cleaned and restored thanks to volunteers, led by Elaine Brinley. We thank TE Connectivity and the many others who support their efforts. You can help support the cause by donating towards the purchase of special (and expensive) cleaning solvents (the same used at Arlington National Cemetery). As thanks for donations of $100 or more, volunteers will clean your family gravestone.
Please send donations to:
Mt. Olivet Veteran Cemetery Beautification Fund/Veteran Gravestone Restoration
PO Box 192
New Cumberland, PA 17070
Or donate online via PayPal!
Mt. Olivet Beautification Fund Appeal
We thank the many who have donated to our Beautification Fund over recent years. Thanks to you, we’ve been able to go beyond expected cemetery care to create three new memorial gardens, install new park benches, plant dozens of new trees, clean and repair more than 240 gravestones, and much more. Individual families are no longer charged perpetual care fees as we believe every family and every gravesite deserves eternal care. We rely on your donations to further enhance your cemetery.
We ask everyone to consider contributing to the Mt. Olivet Beautification Fund!
Infant Memorial Garden Dedicated in September
Our new garden to remember 118 babies buried in a small area of the cemetery was dedicated this past September. Records of these children buried without grave markers from 1895 to 1995 in section 128 were discovered in archival files by our volunteer historian, Dennis Derr. No longer forgotten, the names and burial dates of most of these infants can be accessed by clicking on this link.
Heartfelt thanks to Jonas York, Troop 54, for success with this, his Eagle Scout Project; to The Foundation for Enhancing Communities for their grant that helped launch the effort; to Frank Kelly, Charles Wright, and many others for their financial support; to Erica Jo Shaffer for donating her landscape design expertise; to Gingrich Memorials; to the Youth Group of Trinity Church for their lovely rock paintings; and to the many families and friends of Mt. Olivet who attended the dedication and continue to add to the garden.
Thanks to Patriot News reporter, Zack Hoopes for capturing the story. Click here for the article.
To further enhance and maintain the Infant Memorial Garden, please send donations to:
Mt. Olivet Beautification Fund/Infant Memorial
PO Box 192
New Cumberland, PA 17070
Or donate online via the tab below.
Apple Festival in September
Supporting local families and the community is part of our ongoing mission, which is why Mt. Olivet is proud to be a part of the New Cumberland Olde Town Association’s Annual Apple Festival, held the last Saturday of every September. It’s a wonderful way to further connect with our families and meet new friends. We hope you stop by our tent to say hi and pick-up a small US Flag that honored one of our Military Veterans last Memorial Day.
Help Spread the Good News
We thank Mt. Olivet families for recognizing and supporting our efforts to improve their cemetery. Special thanks to those who tell us and others about the positive happenings at Mt. Olivet. A few of our favorite Google reviews are posted here. We invite all to post reviews on how we’re doing at this link: https://g.page/r/CTVMCC3hfPQuEAg/review.
Website & Quarterly Newsletter Communication
To help keep families aware of what’s going on at Mt. Olivet, we try to keep this website up to date as well as publish quarterly newsletters that are available via the website homepage, in boxes at the cemetery, and mailed or emailed to families. If you would like to be on the mailing list, please send your home and/or email address to info@mtolivetcemetery.org.
Read this and past newsletters by clicking on the page!
Mt. Olivet is back on Facebook!
You can now visit us on Facebook at Mt.OlivetCemeteryNC to learn about the latest happenings at Mt. Olivet.
