Our Parish Cemeteries

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There are actually two St. Mary Cemeteries in Hollidaysburg.   The OLD St. Mary's Parish Cemetery is located between Pine and Hickory Streets along Union Street. This land for the burial ground adjacent to the Lutheran Cemetery was purchased in 1846. St. Mary Parish used this land from 1846 and then jointly by St. Mary and St. Michael Parishes beginning 1862.

Unfortunately, there is not a complete record of burials over the years in the OLD cemetery, and the total number of burials is unknown. Local tradition is that the lower part of the cemetery, which contains many unmarked graves, is where men are buried who lost their lives building and maintaining the Allegheny Portage Railroad.

In 1917 Father Patrick Verckcr purchased 20 acres for a NEW St. Mary Parish Cemetery on a hill behind the Penn-Dot building on North Juniata Street for subsequent St. Mary Parish burials. 

c/o  St. Mary Catholic Church

 312 Clark Street 

Hollidaysburg, PA 16648 

Located at the end of North Montgomery Street in Hollidaysburg near the Public Library and Senior High School. The cemetery was chartered in May of 1905 by the Gromiller family. Ownership was transferred to the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown and St. Michael The Archangel parish in 1980. The Greenlawn Cemetery Association was formed for the “perpetual care and maintenance of graves and lots containing those near and dear to us”. The Association sells and manages lots, keeps updated records, prepares for burial, and oversees the care and maintenance of the graves. 

c/o  St Michael The Archangel Church

 301 Spruce Street 

Hollidaysburg, PA 16648