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
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