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HONORING VETERANS

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Respecting Veterans with 9 8

a Fitting Resting Place

by Lubbock City Councilman Steve Massengale

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ubbock The Veterans Cemetery will be mile east of Loop 289. The City
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will a place for us to pay our highest of Lubbock owned this land and
Lsoon respects to the men and women gifted it to the Texas Veterans
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be the home who fought bravely for our Land Board for the cemetery. It’s
of a new, country. It will be a place for a perfect location, as it overlooks
hallowed, families to visit their loved ones, the future Lake 7. If you want a
and solemn and a place where visitors can glimpse at what it will look like,
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reflect, offer respect, and make
cemetery for
SOUTH PLAINS CEMETERY • MASTER PLAN • CONCEPT 1 - PHASE 1 visit the Texas State Veterans 0 50’ 100’
Lubbock, TX our nation’s certain our heroes are never Cemetery in Abilene the next time
July 25, 2023
1611 West 5th Street July 28, 2023 Steve Massengale veterans, and forgotten. you’re there because it will look SCALE: 1” = 100’-0”
Suite 175
Austin, Texas 78703 23001887 For illustrative purposes only.
Tel: 512.480.0032 Subject to change without notice.
www.rviplanning.com Texas State Veterans Cemetery Program we could not very similar to that.
be more pleased to see this project There is not a more patriotic city
come to fruition. than Lubbock, so it is fitting that Construction will be fully funded
the first new Texas State Veterans through a $9.5 million grant
The City of Lubbock hosted an Cemetery in 12 years will be awarded to the Texas General Land
announcement celebration in June built in Lubbock. The tributes, Office by the U.S. Department of
for Lubbock’s future State Veterans ceremonies, and memorials to take Veterans Affairs. Construction is
Cemetery. It was a wonderful place at the cemetery will ensure expected to start in November
occasion, and what made it so that future generations remember 2023 and, assuming no significant
special were the many wonderful the sacrifices our veterans made. delays, should be operational in
veterans who attended to express June 2025. Initial construction will
their excitement. The 100-acre cemetery will be on include 1,000 casket burial spaces.
East 50th Street approximately .6

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