Now acknowledged as the largest “memorial park” cemetery in the Cincinnati region and widely acclaimed for its beauty, Arlington has over time become a respected institutional resource and fixture in the community, celebrating, in 2009, its 75th Anniversary.  Beginning in 1934 with its small tract of developed land, Arlington originally served those living in a very narrowly defined geographic area; however, it has evolved into a 165 acre full-service secular, non-denominational cemetery serving people of all faiths and religions who reside throughout Greater Cincinnati.

The early operational history of Arlington mirrored the predominant culture of cemeteries throughout America at that time: most provided a very basic scope of services, specifically, only burial and memorialization.  However, as early as the 1960’s, societal norms began to swing in the direction of consumer convenience: one-stop shopping characterized by packaged or “bundled services.”  As a result, it fell to cemeteries, like other consumer-driven entities, to innovate and adapt in response by providing a much broader range of services.

In the 1980’s Arlington, in its first operational shift toward these new consumer preferences, built its first mausoleum, the Lakeside Chapel, which was subsequently followed by additional mausoleum construction and an expansion of a much wider variety of goods and services offered and provided to its lot owners.  Today, Arlington is a full-services cemetery offering consumers not only traditional ground burial and memorilaization, but also caskets, burial vaults, and comprehensive mausoleum and cremation services as well as professional guidance in end of life planning.

The distinctive, perpetual beauty of our grounds serve as a fitting backdrop, complementing our foremost obligation to those we serve: to create both dignified and personally meaningful ways to commemorate and memorialize the life of a beloved.  Because we fundamentally believe that each life is singularly unique and important, the harmonious purpose of preserving memories and celebrating lives is more than a mere catchphrase.  It is who we are and what we do.