Happy Homestead Cemetery is now officially the South Shore’s cemetery.

Since the South Lake Tahoe cemetery opened in 1952 no one from Nevada could be buried there. A law that took effect Jan. 1 allows residents in Glenbrook, Cave Rock, Skyland, Zephyr Cove, Round Hill, Elk Point, Kingsbury and Stateline to have Happy Homestead be their final resting place.

The first 2 acres for the cemetery on Johnson Boulevard were donated by Stella Van Dyke Johnson after her granddaughter drowned. Her children, Marjorie Springmeyer, Bill Johnson and Knox Johnson, sold another 8 acres to the district in 1982.

Happy Homestead became a special district just before that time.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report