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Lyon County, Nevada

Desert Memorial Gardens Cemetery

Silver Springs, Lyon County, Nevada

Lat: 39° 23' 55"N, Lon: 119° 17' 14"W

The cemetery is located in T16N R24E Sec 28. From Silver Springs, drive west about 5 miles on US Highway 50 and turn north on Topaz St. Drive north another half mile to the cemetery on the west side of the road.

This cemetery is a relatively new cemetery with the earliest burials going back to the 1960s. The cemetery is in good condition and still in use. This is a complete list from all existing and legible headstones which was visited by Mr. Kemmerle in Sep 2006.

Contributed by - Fred Kemmerle [fwk12000@yahoo.com]


        NAME                    BIRTH         DEATH         COMMENTS
==========================================================================
Abercrombie, Coy D.          16 Aug 1934    16 Dec 1992
Ahern, Kenneth J.                   1907           1997
Allard, Melvin James                1913           1991
Archer, Ethel M.             08 Dec 1922        no date
Archer, James W.                    1939       no date
Archer, Melvin P.            29 Jul 1916    21 Jun 1994
Arendale, Shannon                   1978           1979
Babb, Donald W.              11 Nov 1916    10 Feb 1999
Babb, Mary B.                02 Mar 1922    02 Dec 1993
Baker, James A.              18 Dec 1928    16 Feb 1993    BM2 USN
Barker, Lois I.              17 May 1926    21 Nov 1999
Barnett, Raymond             02 Mar 1927    13 Oct 1997    USArmy WWII Korea
Bartlett, Lucille May        13 Mar 1907    11 Dec 2001
Bartlett, William David      04 Jan 1907    20 Jan 1988
Beals, Timothy Robert               1953           1999
Belleville, Betty M.                1927           1988
Belleville, Joseph R.        14 May 1926    08 Jan 2006
Bennett, Douglas                    1916           1991
Binns, Everett E.            01 Dec 1917    03 May 1989   USArmy WWII
Bottoms, Mathead                                   1992
Brace, Ray Harold            14 Feb 1913    11 Sep 1981
Bright, Alonzo W.            02 Jun 1901    30 Nov 1985   HA2 USN
Bright, Olivia V.            19 Sep 1902    12 Aug 1983
Brown, J. R.                        1920           1988
Brown, Richard Albert               1927           1988   USN WWII
Bundy, John Arthur           08 Aug 1919    24 Oct 1986   Cpl USMC WWII
Burkell, Catherine                  1910           1977
Burroughs, Mildred                  1916           1980
Bussey, Margaret M.                 1907           1989
Campbell, Brianna Nicole     12 Apr 1995    08 Jan 1996
Case, Mark George            26 Oct 1912    06 Jan 1993   USN
Castoe, Raymond              29 Dec 1915    05 Feb 1992
Castoe, Velma R.             19 Sep 1919        no date
Closson, Nellie M.                  1921           1980
Closson, Russell A.          11 May 1922    09 Apr 1984   Ssgt USAAF WWII
Conley, Paul L.              05 May 1909    04 Aug 1985   Pvt USArmy WWII
Cooke, Hazel N.                     1910           1988
Couch, Leroy Osacr           13 Jun 1926    26 May 1990   CMCN USN WWII Korea
Countryman, Buhl G.                 1916           1986   Pfc USArmy WWII
Countryman, Edna May         28 Aug 1920    08 Apr 1985
Countryman, Garrett Vance    29 Aug 1937    09 Feb 1988   Pvt USArmy
Crites, Jeanette Elaine      30 Sep 1934    31 Oct 2004
Crites, Lee                  27 Sep 1927        no date
Curnutte, Bonnie F.          17 Oct 1915    05 Oct 1994
Curtis, Melvin John                 1903           1978   Cpl USArmy WWII
Davis, Billie Mack           22 Aug 1922    07 Mar 1980   Cox USN WWII
Day, Rose Marie              31 Mar 1991    17 Nov 2004
DeBlauwe, Anges Hazel               1905           1993
Decker, Elton K.             10 Dec 1926        no date
Dossi, Gladys L.             12 Jun 1921    08 Jan 1999
Dunlap, Lowie                                      1993
Dyer, Evelyn                        1940           1979
Estrella, Elodia F.          23 Nov 1915    02 Apr 1999
Estrella, Nat Orvalle        30 Oct 1901    13 Jul 1986
Fiorica, Thomas A.           16 Sep 1912    24 Jan 2005
Fultz, John                         1904           1991
Fultz, Zelma                        1911        no date
Furtick, Vivian Downs               1929           1991
Gallaway, Kenneth Ray               1931           2001
Gallaway, Leonard R.                1911           1986
Gallaway, Winnie M.                 1914           1999
Geurts, Cash James                          12 Jan 1989
Gibson, Helen Blaker                1925           1977
Gibson, Justin Carter        01 Aug 1980    13 Sep 1994
Godlevske, Webster B.               1918           1998   USAAF
Griffith, E. D. Dink         01 Sep 1919    17 Jan 2005
Griffith, Margaret           02 Jun 1917    05 May 1982
Griffith, Nora E.            04 Apr 1891    07 Feb 1985
Gwinn, Joe Byrd              21 Jan 1934    16 Jul 2000
Hakala, Carol A.             17 Nov 1936    15 Sep 2000
Hakala, Charles B.           19 Feb 1935        no date
Hall, Calvin A.                     1911           1985   USMC WWII
Hamilton, Beverly                                  1983
Hefner, Louise                      1922           1979
Hill, Clifford G.            16 May 1915    30 Dec 1989   USArmy WWII
Hill, Myrtle Ercel                                                    
      Stenerson Depner       07 May 1910    02 Nov 2005
Hollcroft, Flora V.                 1913           1982
Holt, Herman Arthur          13 Dec 1930    18 Feb 1983   PN3 USN Korea
Houlet, Louie S.                    1914    24 Jan 2000
Hutson, Danny                26 Oct 1952        no date
Hutson, Theresa              22 Aug 1953    03 Apr 1993
Ignatich, Mara S.            13 Jan 1982    01 Apr 1982
Jackson, Alva Jean                  1924           1986
Jenkins, Hugh M.             28 Aug 1929    13 Oct 1986
Jenkins, Jocelean            30 Sep 1936        no date
Johnson, Charles Loren       20 Apr 1917    31 Jan 1989   GM2 USN WWII
Johnson, Duane Arthur        20 Apr 1933    15 Jun 2001   USAF Korea
Johnson, Glenn Samuel        16 Jan 1897    01 Nov 1977   Pfc USArmy WWI
Johnson, Margaret E.         15 Jul 1898    08 Mar 1982
Johnson, Sharon Ann          09 Jun 1947    11 Aug 2001
Kennedy, Eva Maude           12 May 1918    11 Oct 1998
Kennedy, Leo B.              24 Dec 1905        no date
Key, John Albert             02 Mar 1919    17 Jun 2000   GMM2 USN WWII Korea
Keyes, Adele                        1913           1986
King, Robert Norwood         29 Sep 1930    07 May 2004
King, Sharon L.              09 Apr 1970    01 Jan 2000
Kissee, Margaret A.          21 Sep 1913        no date
Klicker, Cheyenne M.                1986           1988
Kramer, Rexford              09 Nov 1942    16 May 1999
Land, Wesley I.              24 Nov 1922    02 Feb 1988   SM2 USN WWII
Lane, Laurence L.            21 Aug 1925        no date
Lane, Nancy J.               02 Aug 1939    28 Aug 1997
Larson, Harris                      1917           1989
Larson, Helen I.                    1918           1985
LeNord, Ida B.               29 Dec 1887    27 Jul 1984
Leach, Nathinal L. Jr.       13 Feb 1970    19 May 2005
Lewis, James R.              09 Aug 1957    01 May 2001
Logsdon, Joan Barton         05 Feb 1937    27 Nov 1991
Loomer, Gladys A.                   1914           1991
Lopes, Frank T.                     1905           1980
MacGirvin, John H.                  1908           1982
MacGirvin, Marie                    1911           1978
MacGirvin, Robert T.         03 Mar 1942    28 May 1992
Maddox, Harold Wesley        27 Oct 1926    03 Jun 1983   Tec5 USArmy WWII
Marmo, John Joseph Lewis IV  09 Mar 1990    16 Sep 1990
Marshman, Jennifer Marie     27 Nov 1978    30 May 1982
May, Joshua Michael          06 Oct 1986    08 Sep 2004
McAtee, Burton L.               Dec 1915       Feb 1995
McAtee, Laura M.             16 Nov 1914    18 Jul 1998
McKinney, Clyde Vernon              1912           1979   USArmy WWII
McKinney, Lois Baugh         15 Dec 1914    04 Mar 1999
McKinney, William H.         09 Sep 1916    23 Mar 1985   SK2 USN WWII
McRadu, Virginia E.          20 Jan 1904    01 Jan 1979
Monahan, Doris E. Buckles    09 Mar 1912    13 Jan 1998
Moniz, Patrick                      1941           2003   Pvt USMC
Moody, Delilah B.                   1921           1986
Moody, Earl                         1916           1990   Pfc USArmy WWII
Moss, James E.               16 Feb 1925    16 Dec 1987   USN WWII
Moss, Virginia G.                   1925           1984
Moultrie, Helen L.           05 Jan 1916    10 May 2000
Mummy, Emmett Douglas        26 Oct 1938    06 May 1999   USAF
Murray, John T.              28 Feb 1903    26 Mar 1979
Murray, Verona F.            01 Jun 1917    05 Apr 1992
Norman, Ernest D.            04 Jan 1911    26 May 1990
Norman, Velva Leona          20 Apr 1913    07 Apr 1997
O'Neal, Harry V.             08 May 1904    11 May 1985
Owens, Dreamy Rhae           24 Oct 1925    19 Mar 1979
Perry, Clara A.              16 Oct 1893    01 Mar 1987
Pia, Violet May              17 Jun 1915    17 Mar 2006
Piotrowski, Judy             07 Jan 1941    22 Dec 2004
Pitts, Ruth Alma        
      Huckaby Falkner        28 Oct 1919    25 Aug 2003
Porter, Pat Robert           12 Mar 1929    02 Jun 2004   USArmy Korea
Potts, Helen E.              02 Jan 1909    04 Jan 1996
Price, Sarah Mae             24 Apr 1937    17 Oct 1997
Quezada, Allen Richard       12 Feb 1949    03 Feb 1993   USArmy Vietnam
Ramsey, Dorville B.          26 Jul 1930    22 Jun 1999   Sgt USAF Korea
Ramsey, Peggy Y.             10 Mar 1936        no date
Randall, Harry D.            31 Jul 1921    28 Oct 2001   USArmy WWI
Rayford, Kaylee Nancie       19 Sep 2004    24 Nov 2004
Richards, Charles Smith             1927           1982   USMC WWII Korea
Riley, Allene                                      1995
Rocker, Theodore             07 Dec 1908    08 Oct 1986
Russell, Ina B.              03 Oct 1949    25 Jul 2006
Salgado, Charles E.          05 Feb 1919    16 Apr 1988   Tec5 USArmy
Sandmo, Patricia S.                 1929           1975
Scharff, Thyra Louise        22 Jan 1958    20 Mar 2001
Schenk, Ruby May             27 Jun 1925    22 Nov 1996
Seher, Dorothea Mae          11 Feb 1921    05 Jul 2001
Shanahan, Tara Rose                         10 Apr 1983
Shrofe, Leland Floyd                1934           1989
Sigwart, Samuel              07 Mar 1920    08 Oct 2000   USMC WWII
Sowles, Billy J.             01 Jul 1944    06 Dec 1989   USMC
Spencer, Andrew G.           02 May 1989    12 Jun 2004
Starnes, Ellis W.                   1924           1982
Starnes, Patrick Robert             1954           1973
Starnes, R. Madelynne               1922       no date
Starr, Alvin R.                     1917           1982
Starr, Wilma C.                     1926           2002
Stewart, Theodore E.                1902           1982
Stiteler, Burton R.          30 Jun 1925    16 Jul 1998   Pvt USArmy Euro 
                                                          Thtr Medal with 
                                                          Bronze Star
Sunderland, Eve Jean                1971           1996
Swatsenbarg, Jesse James     19 May 1922    06 Jun 1998   Pfc USArmy
Swatsenbarg, Nellie D.       28 Jul 1924    30 Mar 1995
Thomas, Amelia B.               Oct 1884       Nov 1984
Tompkins, Audree     
     Ellen Fjerdingstad      16 Sep 1929    24 Apr 2003
Torres, Julian                      1927           1988   USN
Turley, Virgil Leon          06 May 1924    17 Nov 1989   S1 USN WWII
Van Der Wilt, Arnold A.             1913           2005
Van Der Wilt, June P.               1917           1991
Varney, Glenn W.                    1896           1982   USArmy WWII
Vogel, Audrey J.                    1934           1990
Vogel, Vernon C.                    1933           1992
Wakefield, Jolene            01 Jun 1944    09 Oct 2002
Ward, William Cass                  1919           1977   S2 USN WWII
Warner, Herbert C.           22 Jul 1916    26 Apr 1990   USArmy WWII
Warner, Jeanne Quill                1909           1981
Warner, Larry Robert         21 Jun 1937    17 Oct 1980   Msgt USArmy Vietnam
Warner-Manconi, Goldie L.    08 Dec 1918    10 Jul 2002
Wells, Albert S.                    1914           1984
Wells, Emily M.                     1913           1992
West, Dennis S.              24 Mar 1923    27 May 1988   Sgt USAAF WWII
White, Phillip Wayne         16 Jun 1993    06 Sep 1996
Wilhelmi, Jerome Ernest      19 Jul 1929    28 Jan 1998
Williams, Harold Henry       12 Feb 1925    27 Jul 1987   USArmy Korea
Willis, Alfred "Jack"               1906           1962
Willis, Delfina "Fifi"              1912           2000
Wilshusen, Delwin M.         10 May 1915    12 Jun 1993   Pfc USArmy WWII
Wilshusen, Tida Mae                 1918           1989
Wilson, Norma W.             20 Feb 1924    05 May 2005   w/o Elton K. 
                                                          Decker, m. 5Nov1979
Workman, ??                                        1990

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