This is a record of the burial and death records from the office at Holy Cross Cemetery. This does not include the tombstone readings, which saddens me, but when the cemetery is so large, I reasoned a name and one date was better than nothing.

Occasionally I have added records I found in my other work, which were not a part of the office records, but I felt worthy of being added. One example was a list of a couple dozen names from the records at St Anne Church in Medical Lake, which included burials at Holy Cross. Most were simply additional information to and existing name.

The dates are the burial dates before 1985. Starting in January of 1985, they are the death dates. If you spot one typed incorrectly, I apologize. A few birthdates have been added, when I came upon them, but not many. There are many without a date. This is because there is not one. There were periods of time when no one kept a good record.

I do have one caution to all. There seemed to be an unusual amount of people living over 100yr of age, so I started checking on their birthdates. I discovered that many are errors. I found some that only lived to be 75yr old, and it said they lived longer, so beware, this may not be accurate.

From experience I have learned that sometimes when it says Jan 01, then the year, for the death or burial date, this often means the person was born or died sometime in that year. This also can apply to the month dates. Apparently the cemetery programs at first had to put in a date when they did not know all of the date, it would come up 01, when only the month or year is known. This is not to say some did not die or get buried on the first day of a month. I doubt many were on the first day of the year. The newer software does not do this however.

Madeline Edgren, Ila Wakley and I worked for over a year to get the first group typed up, bringing the records up to about March of 2000. I have since had three different updates from the cemetery. At this time these records are complete up to Oct 31, 2007. Entries after that date are from obits.

- Maggie Rail