No Stone Left Alone

No Stone Left Alone

  Starting the first week of November the Lakefield Cemetery Staff will be placing poppies and Canadian flags at the graves of veterans in our cemetery. In addition to the poppies and Canadian flags at some of our veteran’s graves you will also see a laminated...
COVID-19 Update

COVID-19 Update

  The cemetery office remains open to serve the public. We are currently meeting clients outside of the office to maintain physical distancing and conducting as much paperwork and payments electronically as possible. We are available for pre-need and at-need sales of...
1st Annual Lighting of the Memorial Tree

1st Annual Lighting of the Memorial Tree

Blog Posts The Lakefield Cemetery will be hosting our 1st Annual Memorial Tree Lighting on December 11th, 2019 at 7:00pm in our new Gazebo on the cemetery grounds. For the Tree Lighting Ceremony we will have a Celebrant on hand to give a non-denominational reflection...
What is Decoration Day?

What is Decoration Day?

Annually on the third Sunday in June at the Lakefield Cemetery we celebrate Decoration Day. Decoration Day is a time honoured tradition where families visit the cemetery to pay respects to their loved ones by tidying up gravesites, cleaning cemetery memorials and...
The Fog of Grief and Paperwork

The Fog of Grief and Paperwork

We have all heard the term “Fog of Grief”, that hazy, out of focus feeling, felt when we have experienced loss in our life. After the loss of a loved one we are confronted with the task of making many time sensitive decisions that are accompanied by what seems like a...