St. Michael Cemetery

St. Michael Cemetery is located just south of St. Michael Church in Coleridge, NE. 

Learn more about how to search for burials using the Billiongraves website or download the app.

There you can see images of the gravestones.  The Billiongraves records are GPS tagged so you can see where burials are in a cemetery using the app.

Purchasing Burial Plots

Contact: Holy Trinity Office (402-254-6559); Brandon and Beth Fiscus (402-283-1296)

Parishioners may purchase space for burials for themselves and for family members. Those who purchase space for burial are purchasing the right to interment in a specific plot.  The physical land does not become the property of the purchaser; rather, it remains the property of the parish.

Payment for grave site in full is required at the time of death and must be made prior to burial.  In other cases, a purchase agreement must be completed if payment is not in full at the time of purchase.  Checks can be made payable to: Coleridge St. Michael's Cemetery.  The Interment Fee is collected through the funeral home.

St. Michael Cemetery Guidelines (Download)

• Decorum: The cemetery is a sacred space. A sense of reverence should be displayed at all times. Pets, food & drink, smoking, and the like are not permitted on cemetery grounds. 
• Outside Receptacles: An outside receptacle is required for full-sized casket burials. The minimum requirement is a concrete liner for the grave. A concrete or steel vault is recommended. 
• Headstone Markers: Headstone markers must be made of granite, marble, bronze, or other durable and dignified material and should be set upon a concrete or granite foundation. Markers should be permanently set within one year of burial. Individual markers should be no more than 48 inches wide. No monuments or other memorials, trees, plants, shrubs, or other embellishments of any kind may be placed upon the grave space. 
• Marker Placement: Monument companies should first contact the cemetery’s association beforehand in order to oversee the setting of all markers. St. Michael's Parish will not be responsible for damages unless negligence on the part of the parish can be proven.
• Cremation and Infant Burial: Up to two cremation interments may be done on a single grave site. An urn may be buried on top of a full-body burial vault, but written permission of the owner of the grave site is required before the urn burial. Family must contact a cemetery association member prior to interment of cremated remains so exact location can be recorded.  Burial of infants or stillborn children is permitted on top of the remains of a full-body burial but only with the written permission of the owner of the grave site and only after the burial of the full-body interment. 
• Footstone Markers: Footstone markers indicating a second burial in a grave space must be placed at the foot of the grave and be flush with the ground. 
• Vases & Accessories: Permanent vases and other accessories should be placed no closer than six inches from the border of the adjacent space. All permanent or quasi-permanent accessories should be placed adjacent to the marker so as to facilitate mowing. Glass vases/objects are not allowed. 
• Grass & Seeding: It is the responsibility of the family of the deceased to seed or sod grave space after interment.
• Decorations: Appropriate decorations may be placed on graves one week prior to a holiday and removed no later than two weeks after the holiday. After two weeks, items may be discarded without notice. Decorations contrary to the Catholic faith will be removed immediately and without notice. The parish will not be responsible for loss of or damage to personal property placed on cemetery property. 
• Returns/Transfers: The owner of grave site may return it to the parish as a donation. The parish office must be contacted in order to effect a transfer of grave space to another owner for proof of transfer. 
• Burial Records: For recordkeeping purposes, the parish office must be notified when an interment is to take place in the cemetery. Burial of non-Catholics is permitted if Catholic family members are buried in the cemetery. 
• Disinterment: Nebraska State law requires that a disinterment permit be obtained from the State prior to disinterment of remains. A licensed funeral director must be present for disinterment.

Cemetery Association

• Brandon and Beth Fiscus 402-283-1296
• Chad and Katie Winkelbauer 402-283-2686
• Cindy Haberer 402-283-4337

The stone for the outside altar was added sometime in 1969 - 1972.

Old trees were taken out in 1999 and new trees, shrubs and ornamentals were planted.

A chain link fence was installed in 2000.

A new cross was installed by the altar in the cemetery in 2001 the work was completed by some of our parishioners who built the steel framing and brought in the equipment to put it up. The cross was blessed by Rev. Jeffery Loseke on Memorial Day, May 28, 2012. Water and electricity was also installed in the cemetery in 2001.