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Maple Grove Cemetery - Wichita, Kansas
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- HG Enterprises
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- Wichita KS
- US 67212
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- +1.3169469631
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It is our goal to commemorate lives lived in surroundings of exceptional beauty and tranquility that provide comfort and inspiration to the bereaved and the public as a whole, and to offer comprehensive cemetery services to all faiths at a reasonable charge.
We are often asked about what it means to be a non-profit and non-sectarian cemetery. Essentially this means that all revenues are used for the operation, maintenance and improvement of Maple Grove. Our revenues come from the sale of Interment Space, Interment Services, and Merchandise such as Burial Vaults and Permanent Memorials (grave markers and monuments). To address general overall maintenance the cemetery is permitted to spend interest income from the cemetery's state-monitored Permanent Care Fund. Special fundraising is used for special projects of public interest. You may ask if Maple Grove receives or pays referral fees to Funeral Directors. The answer is no. Our board of directors are volunteers. We are operated as a 501(c)(13) cemetery organization and pay all customary taxes. Income tax and real estate tax are exceptions. Maple Grove has always operated as a non-sectarian cemetery serving all faiths. Nonetheless, churches have established special informal areas for their congregations. These attributes set us apart from other local cemeteries.
For-profit cemeteries are, of course, operated to make a profit for owners or stockholders. Most of Wichita's larger cemeteries are corporate profit centers which rely upon aggressive pre-need selling to be profitable. The work is executed by commissioned sales management and staff. The big corporations prefer to purchase Mortuary/Cemetery combinations in order to consolidate operations and maximize profits. Municipal or township cemeteries, on the other hand, are operated out of necessity by the local government. They are exempt from state permanent care trusting requirements. These small cemeteries rarely engage in the sale of vaults and markers leaving that to the funeral directors. Their only source of revenue is what is collected for grave space and opening and closing the grave; the local taxpayer picks up the rest of the tab for maintenance. Often these cemeteries began life as a church-related cemetery. Sedgwick County alone contains about forty such cemeteries. Locating records and other information about these cemeteries can prove problematic.
