Current News
Current cemetery news, events, and invitations are summarized below. Detailed information can be obtained by clicking on the summary line or scrolling down.
Invitation to our Mt. Olivet Family & Friends Meeting on September 29, 2024!
All current and prospective families and friends are invited to the annual Mt. Olivet Family & Friends Meeting on Sunday, September 29th from 1pm to 2:30pm. It’s a wonderful opportunity to get to better know one another, hear about the latest cemetery happenings, and provide input for future improvements. Also on the agenda:
- Infant Memorial Garden Dedication
- Welcome Garden Celebration
- US Military Veteran Gravestone Restoration.
More information on these agenda items follows below.
We hope you attend. No RSVP required.
Infant Memorial Garden
On September 29, at our Family & Friends meeting, we’ll unveil the new Infant Memorial Garden to properly remember over 100 babies buried since 1895 with no grave markers. Records of these children were recently found in archival files. The infant burial file can be accessed here.
Our heartfelt thanks to Jonas York, Troop 54, for success with this, his Eagle Scout Project; to Frank Kelly, The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, and Wright Xpress for their significant financial support; to Erica Jo Shaffer for landscape design assistance; to Gingrich Memorials for the memorial stone; and to area children for painting lovely rocks. You can add your support by donating to our Beautification Fund/Infant Memorial.
Please send donations to:
Mt. Olivet Beautification Fund/Infant Memorial
PO Box 192
New Cumberland, PA 17070
Or donate online via the tab below.
Welcome Garden
At our Family & Friends Meeting we’ll also celebrate completion of our new Welcome Garden being planted inside the main gate where the old pine trees once stood. We thank Helen Kohr and her daughters Margaret and Jeanette for their generous donation to beautify the entrance. We again thank Erica Jo Shaffer for landscape design help and all others who contributed with donations, plants and gardening.
You can add your support by donating to our Beautification Fund / Welcome Garden.
Please send donations to:
Mt. Olivet Cemetery
Beautification Fund/Welcome Garden
PO Box 192
New Cumberland, PA 17070
Or donate online via the tab below.
Military Veterans Gravestone Restoration
Volunteers, led by Elaine Brinley, have removed decades of grime and mold to restore beauty and legibility to over 150 veterans’ and their families’ memorials. We thank TE Connectivity and the many others who support their efforts. At our Family Meeting we’ll discuss the methods and materials used (the same as Arlington Cemetery) and upcoming workshops for new volunteers. You can help fund more cleaning for veterans’ and your own family’s stones. For every $100 donation, volunteers will clean your family’s).
Please send donations to:
Mt. Olivet Veteran Beautification Fund/Veteran Gravestone Restoration
PO Box 192
New Cumberland, PA 17070
Or donate online via the tab below!
Memorial Salute to 500+ US Military Veterans on May 22, 2025!
Over 100 families and friends, including Veterans’ families, Cedar Cliff High School JROTC Color Guard, American Legion Post #143 members, Trinity Church Pastor, Arun Andrews, New Cumberland Mayor, Joan Erney came together this past May, the Thursday before Memorial Day, to salute over 500 US Veterans lying in peace at Mt. Olivet. People mingled, lunch was served, flags were placed at individual gravesites, words of prayer and remembrance were spoken, a new US Flag was presented by the Cedar Cliff JROTC Color Guard, and all saluted as “Taps” echoed throughout the grounds thanks to volunteer buglers George Young and Jamie Bream.
We thank ABC27 WHTM-TV for telling our story…
https://www.abc27.com/local-news/new-cumberland-cemetery-prepares-for-memorial-day/
Please join us on May 22, 2025, from 12noon to 2pm to again Honor our Veterans!
Beautification Enhancements Ongoing! Please Help Fund More!
Mt. Olivet is more beautiful than ever thanks to Sam Brinley and our groundskeepers, volunteers, and supporting families. Gravestones are constantly being cleaned and restored. Our grass is healthier and more neatly cut and edged. Trees trimmed regularly. Diseased trees and stumps removed. Fallen limbs and leaves picked up weekly. Stone columns tuckpointed. Cottage office and garage renovated.
Thanks to donations to our Beautification Fund, we’ve been able to go beyond normal cemetery care to create new memorial gardens, install new park benches, plant dozens of new trees, repair gravestones, and more. We do not charge perpetual care fees because we believe every gravesite deserves eternal care. Instead, we rely on your generous donations to further enhance your cemetery.
Please contribute to the Mt. Olivet Beautification Fund!
Please send donations to:
Mt. Olivet Cemetery Beautification Fund
PO Box 192
New Cumberland, PA 17070
Or donate online via the tab below!
Annual Apple Festival Fun September 28, 2024
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. It’s a wonderful way to further connect with our families and meet new friends. We hope you stop our tent to say hi.
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 pages!
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.
