Cemetery History
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In 1987 Madbury Selectmen, Joseph Moriarty, Bruce Hodgdon, and Richard Houghton appointed a forwardlooking committee of Madbury residents, including Alfred Grimes, Diane Hodgson, Richard Houghton, Georgia Drew, and Carleton Wentworth to plan a town cemetery. By 1991 the town had purchased 5.7 acres from Kenneth Tibbetts at the junction of Cherry Lane and Town Hall Road for this purpose.
Challenged by the committee to come up with something unique, surveyor Kevin McEneaney designed a circular plot layout. The design also included plans for a line of memorial pillars available to commemorate Madbury residents not buried in the cemetery.
It is a tribute to the community-minded residents and the public service orientation of the committee, the selectmen, and the many contributors who all worked together to make this significant  contribution to Madbury’s community life.
In 1993 construction was begun, and the cemetery was dedicated on June 11, 1994. Later, Master Gardener Noreen Gaetjens, along with Carol Laughlin, designed an accompanying memorial garden to include a bench, shrubbery, and central labyrinth-designed plaza as a space for meditation and reflection.
Joseph Moriarty, Kenneth Tibbets and Richard Houghton.
In 2005, Matt Moynihan completed the garden area by laying out the labyrinth as an Eagle Scout project. The cemetery and memorial garden constitute Madbury’s Memorial Park.
Georgia Drew and Diane Hodgson.
Joseph Moriarty, Bruce Hodsdon, Carl Wentworth, Arthur Anderson,
Alfred Grimes, Ken Wolcott.
The first burial was that of Willard Sanders on April 8, 1995.  Sanders was a founding member of the Madbury Volunteer Fire Department.
Click here to download the Memorial Cemetery Dedication Program from 1994.
Dedication Video to be posted in the near future.