Evergreen Mortuary & Cemetary Sells for $2.62 Million

Northstar cemetaryEvergreen Mortuary and Cemetary at 3015 N Oracle Road sold to NorthStar Cemetary Services of Arizona, an affiliate of NorthStar Memorial Group of Houston, TX for $2.617 million. In an all cash transaction, The Tucson Cemetary Association sold 13,741-square-feet of buildings and 92 acres at Oracle and Miracle Mile Roads in Tucson.

The Tucson Cemetary Association has 7 principals. The principals are J Anne A. Vandenberg from Tucson AZ, J Anne Addison Vandenberg from Tucson AZ, Jean W. Addison from Tucson AZ, Jeff Addison from Tucson AZ, Peter Callaghan from Tucson AZ, William B. Addison from Tucson AZ, and Williams B. Addison from Tucson AZ.

Evergreen Cemetery started in 1907. From 1914 to 1916 the tombs and gravestones from Old City Cemetery were moved to Evergreen Cemetery.  The burial site contains the most significant of Tucson’s prominent burials. While Tucson’s original cemeteries were closer to downtown, Evergreen and Holy Hope Cemetery were established when the city boundaries began pushing north and west in 1907, and remains perhaps the most significant historically in a single location for the area, from elaborate Victorian to simple headstones, the property is a piece of Tucson history.

NorthStar Memorial Group is a privately held funeral, cremation and memorialization company based in Houston, TX founded to care for the dead, comfort the living, and plan for the inevitable.

This is NorthStar’s second location in Arizona, it also owns Smart Cremation in Scottsdale.

NorthStar Memorial Group has been growing by acquisitions and mergers. Many of the current NorthStar Memorial Properties were family run businesses or small corporations that shared the entrepreneurial spirit in their commitment to serve.

According to the Tucson Historical Society some famous people buried at Evergreen include:
Asa Clapp 1805
Asher Hinds 1863
Carroll L. Beedy 1880
Charles W. Goddard 1879
Charles W. Walton 1819
Cornelius C. Smith 1869
Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. 1913
Curt Roberts 1929
Eddie Anderson 1905
Elbridge Gerry 1813
Emmor Cope 1834
Ether Shepley 1789
Francis Fessenden 1839
Francis H. Fassett 1823
Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith 1806
Joe Hayashi 1920
Frank Augustus Miller 1858
Frank Fixaris 1934
Gary Vinson 1936
George Baird Hodge 1828
George Foster Shepley 1819
James Deering Fessenden 1833
John Appleton 1815
John J. Perry 1811
John Lynch 1825
Joseph C. Noyes 1798
Kiyoshi K. Muranaga 1922
Lorenzo De Medici Sweat 1818
Louise Beavers 1902
Marianne Moore 1887
Nathan Clifford 1803
Ted T. Tanouye 1919
Neal S. Dow 1804
Obed Hall 1757
Samuel C. Fessenden 1815
Samuel Fessenden 1784
Silas Lee 1760
Slow Joe Doyle 1881
T. A. D. Fessenden 1826
Thomas Brackett Reed 1839
William F. Cogswell 1819
William H. Horsfall 1847
William LeBaron Putnam 1835
William P. Fessenden 1806
Willits J. Hole 1858
Zack Williams 1884