2025 Honoring the Departed Ceremony

​Alachua County Community Support Services, in collaboration with community faith-based organizations, invites the community to attend “Honoring the Departed” on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025, at 2 p.m. at Evergreen Cemetery (401 SE 21st Ave., Gainesville). 

Honoring the Departed is a ceremony to memorialize indigent individuals who were unclaimed, abandoned, or unknown. The memorial is an opportunity to honor those who were buried with no service. The ceremony will consist of a special invocation and the acknowledgment of those who passed away in 2024. 

Watch a short video from last year’s Honoring the Departed ceremony.

For more information, contact Alachua County Community Stabilization Program Manager Satori Days at 352-264-6745 or sdays@alachuacounty.us.

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