Cemeteries
Council provides three tranquil settings for your loved one's eternal memory:
Council can also help with family history research.
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: landscaped lawn cemetery provides a traditional resting place for your loved one with contemplation and reflection areas.
- Ornamental beam: has provision for elaborate headstones framed and manicured by lawns.
- Monumental beam: the ideal resting place for your loved one preferring a more traditional style of memorial and headstone.
- Interment of ashes: provides 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 located on Peak Downs Highway in Walkerston. The cemetery is a traditional monument cemetery with a variety of memorial options:
- Vaults: can be erected 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 located on Cemetery Road in West Mackay. The 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.