Endowed Care Cemeteries
Endowed Care Cemeteries
The Financial Institutions Division does not license or regulate the operations of any cemeteries, including endowed care cemeteries, municipal cemeteries, fraternal cemeteries, religious cemeteries, or family burial grounds.
Endowed care cemeteries are privately owned cemeteries that register with the State of New Mexico to establish an irrevocable trust fund to maintain the general upkeep of the cemetery grounds. This includes mowing lawns, trimming shrubs, cutting trees, and keeping in repair roads, buildings, fences, and other structures as prescribed in the New Mexico Endowed Care of Cemetery Act § 58-17-1, et seq., NMSA 1978.
The endowed care cemeteries are required to file an initial registration followed by an annual registration statement every year thereafter. The Financial Institutions Division has supervisory authority over the accounting of irrevocable trust funds held by independent trustees for the following cemeteries:
Name of Cemetery |
Physical Address |
Registration Number |
|---|---|---|
Desert Lawn Memorial Gardens |
3770 US Highway 180, Deming, NM 88030 |
Inactive/Abandoned |
Fairview Memorial Park |
700 Yale Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106 |
645 |
Hillcrest Memorial Gardens Cemetery |
5410 W. Picacho Avenue, Las Cruces, NM 88007 |
632 |
Masonic Cemetery |
760 S. Compress Road, Las Cruces, NM 88005 |
670 |
Memory Gardens of Farmington |
6917 E. Main Street, Farmington, NM 87402 |
642 |
Memory Gardens of the Valley |
4900 McNutt Road, Santa Teresa, NM 88008 |
698 |
Memorial Gardens Cemetery |
417 E. Rodeo Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505 |
637 |
Rest Lawn Memorial Park |
8002 State Highway 206, Portales, NM 88130 |
678 |
Ruidoso Hondo Valley Memorial Park |
26760 Highway 70, Ruidoso Downs, NM 88346 |
641 |
Sandia Memory Gardens |
9500 San Pedro NE, Albuquerque, NM 87113 |
643 |
Sunset Memorial Park |
924 Menaul Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87125 |
615 |
Sunset Memorial Park of Gallup |
21 NM-118, Gallup, NM 87301 |
620 |
Terrace Grove Memorial Gardens |
1200 W. Aragon, Belen, NM 87002 |
625 |
Twin Oaks Memorial Park & Crematory |
59 Lake Arthur Hwy, Artesia, NM 88210 |
623 |
Vista Verde Memorial Park, LLC |
4301 Sara Rd, Rio Rancho, NM 87124 |
644 |