Wasco Cemetery

Greenlawn Northeast is a much-loved area landmark, distinguished by its mature shade trees, beautiful lake and fountains, expansive lawns and colonial-inspired mortuary and chapel building. Here rest many of Bakersfield’s founders, leaders, and uniformed heroes. And here is where today’s families can still find a multitude of memorial burial and cremation options for themselves and their loved ones.

Greenlawn Memorial Park was the vision of Ed Helm (1891-1952). Having already established Bakersfield Monument Company in 1927, he witnessed a rapidly growing Bakersfield and knew that the time would come when additional interment property would be needed...