Cemeteries
Mackay Regional Council provides three tranquil settings for your loved one's eternal memory:
- Mount Bassett Cemetery, Mount Bassett Road, North Mackay
- Walkerston Cemetery, Peak Downs Highway, Walkerston
- Mackay Cemetery, Cemetery Road, West Mackay
A team of professional and dedicated cemetery workers meticulously maintain all three cemeteries.
Mount Bassett Cemetery
Mount Bassett Cemetery is located on Mount Bassett Cemetery Road in North Mackay and has provision for burial and ashes interment. The cemetery provides various burial options and ashes placement.
Lawn Cemetery
Our landscaped lawn cemetery provides a traditional resting place for your loved one with contemplation and reflection areas.
Ornamental Beam
This section is within the Lawn Cemetery and has provision for elaborate headstones framed and manicured by lawns.
Monumental Beam
The Monumental Beam section of Mount Bassett Cemetery is the ideal resting place for your loved one preferring a more traditional style of memorial and headstone.
Interment of ashes
Columbarium Walls provide a traditional memeorial for your loved one's ashes interment. A memorial plaque covers the ashes niche.
The Garden of Memories is another option for ashes interment. The Garden has provision for in-ground placement of urns in a beautiful garden setting with a small headstone and plaque.
Ashes can also be interred in family plots ensuring the family stays together. Grave plots may also be purchased for the sole purpose of ashes burials.
Walkerston Cemetery
Walkerston Cemetery is a traditional monument cemetery with a variety of memorial options.
Vaults
Vaults can be erected at Walkerston Cemetery to provide traditional Mediterranean style of burial. Vaults can also be erected prior to a burial taking place.
Interment of ashes
Columbarium Walls provide a traditional memorial to your loved one's ashes interment. A memorial plaque covers the ashes niche.
Ashes can also be interred in family plots and vaults. Grave plots may also be purchased for the sole purpose of ashes burials.
Mackay Cemetery
Mackay Cemetery is rich in history and burial plots are no longer available for purchase. However, burials and interment of ashes are still accepted in family plots.
On special occasions local historian Mrs Berenice Wright will conduct guided walks of the Old Mackay Cemetery.
Council's Customer Service Centre can help with genealogical reasearch.