"I go to prepare a place for you" John 14:2
St Thomas Cemetery is set apart from other cemeteries, in that we are part of the ministry of the Catholic Church. Our cemetery provides holy ground where we bring respectful dignity to the mortal remains entrusted to our care. We believe that we owe recognition to those previous generations who have lived in faith. In death, as in life, we belong to the Lord. Our faith in Jesus' Resurrection enables us to offer hope and warmth to the hearts and souls burdened with grief and anxiety. We feel truly blessed and sacredly priveleged to practice this Corporal Works of Mercy through the tradition of the Catholic Church.
October 13 - Inurn Sharon Louise Sherrard Roys at 1:00 in St. Thomas Cemetery
Three beautiful solid granite statues have been sponsored by our generous north Idaho Catholics.
We also have 6 solid granite benches that were sponsored, to be placed by the statues for prayer and meditation.
Thank you to all who love and enhance our historic cemetery!
A Funeral Mass is held when the body or cremains of the deceased is present in the church.
When planning a Funeral Mass, please contact St Thomas (208.664.9259) as to the availability of our priests calendar. If the deceased is Catholic, they must have a Catholic Funeral Rite (Funeral Mass or religious service) prior to burial or inurnment in
St Thomas Cemetery.
A Funeral Mass or Service can have up to three readings: OT, NT and Gospel
If your funeral Mass is not embedded in a daily Mass, you can choose these readings,
Please notify Tina Johnson (cemetery@stthomascda.org) of your choices prior to the funeral.
The Ladies Auxiliary is back joyfully hosting after funeral receptions in the parish center. Receptions are provided by the Ladies Auxiliary on a donation basis as they purchase and prepare all the food. Please call Kathy Perez, our Ladies Auxiliary contact person:208-664-2885. No alcohol is permitted on the property, parking lot included. Also, no receptions on Tuesday afternoons when we have our soup kitchen.
You may choose any funeral home or monument company. We have listed the ones we work with on a regular basis.
English Funeral Chapel: www.englishfuneralchapel.com
Coeur d'Alene: 208.664.3143 1133 N. 4th
Post Falls: 208.773.3425, 1700 N. Spokane St.
Yates Funeral Home: www.yatesfuneralhomes.com
Coeur d'Alene: 208.664.3151 744 N. 4th
Hayden: Phone: 208 772-1915 373 E. Hayden Avenue
Bell Tower Funeral Home https://belltowerfuneralhome.com
Post Falls: 208.457.8880 3398 East Jenalan Avenue
Tresko Monument 509.838.3196
Double side-by-side plots, headstone maximum size 60" X 24" including a 4" collar. Not taller than 4'
Single full plot, headstone maximum size: 30" X 24" including a 4" collar. Not taller than 4'
Cremation grave headstone maximum size 24" X 16" including a 4" collar.
Infant grave headstone maximum size 16" X 12" including a 3" collar
Brian Bogdanowitz, Director of Sacred Music. (708) 491-1984 sacredmusic@stthomascda.org
Cantor $125
Please call Brian for music information. He will help you with your music and cantor choices and will discuss pricing with you.
Niche, all are double (10 1/4' X 10 1/4"X 10 1/4") $1900
Opening/Closing a niche 350
Niche Etching 150
Niche Etching for death date only 50
Perpetual Care 125
Priest Services (Suggested Stole Fee) 200*
* If the inurnment immediately follows the Memorial Mass, a separate
Stoll Fee will not be charged.
All fees payable in full prior to services.
Cemetery Plot in the Fr. John Mosier Section (43" wide) $2000
Cremation Plot, all are double (15 available) (30" wide) $1000
Cremation Plot, double, Fr. John Mosier Section (12 available) $1250
Opening/Closing cremation plot $350
Perpetual Care $125
Priest Services (Stole Fee) $200*
* If the cemetery service immediately follows the funeral/memorial Mass,
a separate Stole Fee will not be charged.
All fees payable in full prior to services.
Funeral/Memorial Mass at St Thomas for Non-parishioners $200
Priest Services at Mass 200
Altar Servers, each 25
Easement Transfer, each 40
Parish Center Rental for Non-parishioner 150
Ladies Auxiliary Luncheon (By Donation)
Mission House Dining Room Rental for Non-parishioner 150
All fees payable in full prior to services.
Coeur du Christ Academy, parishioners and our Knights helped to rake our cemetery
this past weekend.
The city canceled the fall leaf rake because of snow, Every leaf had to be loaded into and hauled off in trailers.
Well done!!!
It took a village!
Thank you to the Cemetery Committee, specifically Gary, for his due diligence in finding the cemetery .37 of a acre
.Gary visited the City of Coeur d'Alene, the Idaho Highway Department, Kootenai County Government Building and
Kootenai Title.
A big thank you to Ken Jaconsen for facilitating the deed transfer and Frame and Smetana for surveying the property.
We have extended our fence to Sherman Avenue which will give us a few hundred full burial plots.
This was all made possible by the 100% support of
Fr John Mosier
To get to St Thomas Cemetery: from Sherman Avenue turn south on 21st street. Go 1 block to Front Avenue and turn left.
The cemetery will be straight ahead.
The cemetery is open daily, daylight hours.
Our Cemetery Sexton is Mike Kopf 208.661.8279
Cemetery Representative: Tina Johnson
cemetery@stthomascda.org 208.664.9259 X 3
The Cemetery Committee meets the first Wednesday of each month at 1:00 PM in the Mission House library.
All are welcome to attend!
Call for a tour with one of our docents.
CEMETERY COMMITTEE:
Annemarie Lander, Williene Gagnon, Joey Haines,
Mike Kopf, Dennis Cada, Melanie Simpson,
Gary and Tina Johnson, Kevin Jenne
Enter one of the websites below on your
phone or mobile device.
maps.cdaid.org/burial/
In the upper right hand corner, enter whose grave you are looking for, last name first.
findagrave.com
Enter whose grave you are looking for and in the cemetery space type "coeur"
QR code scan for our cemetery as well as Forest and Riverview
A Pope who was martyred October 14 A.D. 222 . He is famous by the ancient cemetery which he beautified, and which, for the great number of holy martyrs whose bodies were buried there, was the most celebrated of all those in Rome. He regarded the mortal remains of the dead precious in the eyes of God, who watches over them, regarding them as the apple of his eye, to be raised one day in the brightest glory, and made shining lusters in the heavenly Jerusalem.
He was the founder of Christian monasticism.
In the course of his remarkable and extraordinarily long life, Anthony would live to see the Emperor Constantine's establishment of Christianity as the official religion of the Roman empire. Anthony himself, however, would establish something more lasting – by becoming the spiritual father of the monastic communities
St. Anthony may have been up to 105 years old when he died, sometime between 350 and 356. In keeping with his instructions, two of his disciples buried his body secretly in an unmarked grave.