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State Veterans Memorial Cemetery at Spanish Fort — Pre-Register Now

Interment at the state veterans cemetery at Spanish Fort, staffed and funded by the State through the veterans department. A veteran and spouse can establish eligibility in advance rather than leaving it to the week of a funeral.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

Interment at the state veterans cemetery at Spanish Fort, staffed and funded by the State through the veterans department. A veteran and spouse can establish eligibility in advance rather than leaving it to the week of a funeral.

What it's worth: Interment at the state veterans cemetery; no fee schedule is published

  • The department states the cemetery receives full staffing and operational funding from the State through the department.
  • No fee figures for the veteran or for a family member appear on the department’s page, so none is claimed here.
  • The cemetery holds 5,000 graves across ground crypts, traditional graves, columbarium niches and a scatter garden, on over 120 acres, and is described with a hundred-year operational life.

Who is entitled to it

  • Pre-registration is described for the veteran and the spouse together.
  • The veteran’s discharge does not bar interment.
  • Your home is in Alabama.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1Pre-register rather than wait. The department describes pre-registration as establishing, in advance, the eligibility of a veteran and their spouse.
  2. 2Send the DD Form 214 with the pre-registration, and a marriage certificate where a spouse is included.
  3. 3Ask what the family will be charged. The department publishes no fee schedule, so get the figure in writing before assuming any part of it is free.
  4. 4Ask about the interment types available to you — ground crypt, traditional grave, columbarium niche or the scatter garden — because the choice affects availability.
  5. 5Consider the federal alternative in the same conversation. A national cemetery is a separate option with its own eligibility, and a family should compare rather than assume.
  6. 6Contact the cemetery directly on (251) 625-1338 rather than working through a general enquiry line.
Form
Pre-registration for eligibility
File with
Alabama State Veterans Memorial Cemetery at Spanish Fort
Documents you will need
dd214
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
Known gapNo fee is published — for the veteran or for a spouse or dependant. Several states in this corpus charge a family several hundred dollars for the same interment, so treat the absence of a figure as a question to ask, not as a zero.
Worth knowingThe department’s page also points to the National Cemetery Administration and to the federal national cemetery in the state. Those are different systems with different eligibility, and a family should compare both.

Sources

Why only one source type: The department operates the cemetery and describes it on its own page. No Ala. Code section for the cemetery is cited there and none has been read this session, so no statutory citation is offered.

This finder provides an informational match, not a government eligibility determination. The responsible agency decides your application.