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With approval of the city, we have a slate of new tours available in the coming months! Buy ticket here.

Due to inclement weather, the headstone cleaning workshop on the 18th of September will be canceled.

Just a quick update to let everyone know that we will not be doing any Halloween event this year. We have had quite a few inquiries and wanted to let everyone know that unfortunately we will not be doing Tour of Untimely Departures or any Halloween event this year. It takes months of planning and countless volunteers to pull off such an event. The pandemic is still in our midst and we just didn’t feel safe pulling off a large event during this time. We do have our monthly tours where we can control the size, require masks and have less impact during this time. Lets all cross our fingers for next year! Thank you. FLFC

Meet at the Soldiers Monument at 10am for a tutorial on how to clean and spruce the headstones at Lone Fir Cemetery.

The workshop runs from 10am until noon and there is no fee. We provide the supplies! Gloves are handy and please dress to get dirty.   Every Third Saturday of the Month – April through September  

• August 21
• September 18

10:00a – 12:00p

Cost: FREE!

We are back in action…

We are slowly making our way back into monthly events and activities at Lone Fir Cemetery. We are starting off with our monthly historical tour and the first one will kick off in July on the regular cadence of the Second Saturday- July 10th- at 10am.  The tour will begin at the Soldiers Monument in the center of the cemetery and will last approximately 2 hours. Donations/tickets are $10 and you can reserve a spot in advance on our website. We highly advise that you buy tickets in advance since we will keep a limit of 30 people to maintain social distancing. We will allow for walk ups but we will be diligent upon maintaining the headcount for the tours at 30- this includes FLFC volunteers. That total will be split into two groups to also ensure this measure. Along with social distancing we will require all attendees to wear masks for the tour at all times.

New tours are form 10am to noon on:

• July 10
• August 14
• September 11th

Additionally, we will be having the more detailed “Stories in Stone” tours on:

• August 7th – Stories in Stone north
• September 4th – Stories in Stone south
• October 2nd – Stories in Stone north
• November 6th – Stories in Stone south
• December 4th – Stories in Stone north

Our goal is to add other tours as well as our monthly headstone workshops so stay tuned here and on our social media for news on that. More to come…

Thank you for your continued support of Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery!

A tiny update – We appreciate all the messages about Lone Fir and our status on tours and our workshops. As of now we don’t have much to report as COVID-19 is still ever present but when we are able to conduct tours and workshops we will post on social and here on our website. In the meantime, we have some things we are working on behind the scenes that we will announce soon so stay tuned .  Continue to stay stewards of the cemetery and stay safe!

We sure do miss giving tours and working on cleaning headstones but this year took a turn for all of us with Covid-19. When we resume our tours and events we will let everyone know- we may consider very small tour sizes but that is in the working stages- but more to come on that. So with that said we have not planned nor do we have plans to conduct a Halloween event this year. That is hard for us because we know how much everyone loves those events and this is our 20th anniversary as a group. However it is too precarious and safety is our biggest concern not only for patrons but for our volunteers. It takes months and months of planning, volunteers and more to get any type of special event off the ground successfully. We will continue to work with Metro on mitigating vandalism and supporting Lone Fir in every way that we can. We hope that you continue to love, cherish and support Lone Fir and Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery as much as ever.

In observance of Governor Kate Brown’s Executive order and the prohibition of gatherings and events regardless of size if social distancing cannot be sustained we are not holding any Memorial Day events this upcoming weekend. Lone Fir cemetery is open to the public and we ask that you stay safe this Memorial Day weekend. There are maps on Metro’s website to help facilitate locating graves of loved ones. 

https://www.oregonmetro.gov/cemeteries/search-cemetery-records

In an effort to comply with the states stay at home ordinance and in an effort of safety we are cancelling all events for until further notice including our monthly tours, headstone cleaning, and our public board meeting.  All ticket purchases for tours canceled will be refunded. We  will continue to monitor the situation and keep everyone informed about future months events and meetings. Thank you for all of your support and please be safe.

Our 2020 Friends of Lone Fir Calendar is now available in our online store or at Red Fox Vintage!

Enjoy the sights of the cemetery all year long!