SLT cemetery to allow Nevada burials

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