One Cemetery, One Fence

Mineola, Texas – On Tuesday, September 22, 2020 the boards of Cedars
Memorial Gardens and Mineola Cemetery voted unanimously, during a joint
session, to unite under the name Mineola Memorial Cemetery. The merger
includes the addition of two seats to the board of the existing 501c13,
which will be filled by Demetrius Boyd and Billy McCalla.

The July 15, 2020 removal of the fence between the two cemeteries was a
symbolic gesture and only the beginning of an ongoing effort to remove
lingering reminders of divisive ideologies of the past. Boyd said, “In
times past, things were done a certain way and no one asked questions.
Today we move forward as one community with one cemetery.”

The merger will be facilitated by the One Cemetery Committee that will
be tasked with, among other things, obtaining funds to build a new fence
around the perimeter. They will do so with a GoFundMe campaign titled
One Cemetery, One Fence.

David Collett, Chairman of the newly renamed Mineola Memorial Cemetery
board said, “We have a lot of work to do to merge two organizations into
one. And we’re going to do it together under one name: Mineola Memorial
Cemetery.”