Rudy Montez looks over the program while sitting amongst grave sites prior to the Houston National Cemetery Memorial Day Service Monday, May 27, 2013, in Houston. Montez has family and friends buried ...

Patrick Young waited in the woods to see who had put up a padlocked gate across the entrance to a cemetery where his family has been buried since the time they were enslaved. He had driven up to tend ...

Steve Walker's bugle cut through the distant hum of passing planes as a crowd stood at attention during the Memorial Day ceremony at Houston National Cemetery. Walker performed “Taps,” the emotional ...

HOUSTON — Sandra Lord has offered guided and self-guided tours in Houston since 1989. The cemeteries listed in Houston's Cemetery Circle were part of a Broomstick Adventure bus tour. It was one of her ...

Read full article: Holiday wreaths to honor 162,000 veterans’ graves at Fort Sam Houston Local organizers are rallying the community to honor 162,000 veterans’ graves with remembrance wreaths at Fort ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Olivewood Cemetery is one of the oldest African American cemeteries in the city of Houston. It was incorporated in 1875 and has been named an endangered historical site due to ...

An image posted on Facebook by the conservative group ForAmerica says, "The Houston National Cemetery is preventing Christian prayers from being said at military funerals!" ForAmerica, which according ...

HOUSTON – A proposal to put a parking lot near Olivewood Cemetery, Houston’s oldest African-American cemetery, has been denied. Incorporated in 1875, the more than-eight-acre Olivewood Cemetery, ...

HOUSTON — Honoring fallen soldiers on Memorial Day in 2020 will look a lot different than years past. There will not be a public ceremony at the Houston National Cemetery on Monday due to health ...

A casket from a cemetery in southwest Houston floated to the surface Tuesday and came to a temporary resting place on a concrete hiking and biking trail along Keegans Bayou in Fort Bend County. The ...

The New Jersey cemetery where Whitney Houston was laid to rest Sunday was shut down to fans Monday afternoon after cemetery officials became concerned about growing crowds. Authorities said groups of ...