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REMEMBER the Fallen. . . HONOR those who Serve. . . TEACH our children the value of Freedom.

Welcome to Long Beach City Cemetery's Wreaths Across America Page. 

On December 13, 2025 at 11 am promptly, Long Beach, Mississippi's Donnie Leo-Ford Levens American Legion Post 1995 Family, Eddie Blake Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3937 and other volunteers will be helping Long Beach City Cemetery to Remember and Honor our veterans by laying Remembrance wreaths on the graves of our country's fallen heroes.

Please help us honor and remember as many fallen heroes as possible by sponsoring remembrance wreaths, volunteering on Wreaths Day, or inviting your family and friends to attend with you.

Thank you so much for supporting the Long Beach City Cemetery and Wreaths Across America!

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Location Information

MSLBCC - Long Beach City Cemetery
Girard Ave and W 1st St
Wendy Griffioen
Long Beach, MS 39560, United States
Click here for the Long Beach City Cemetery Page
Veteran Graves: 525
Coverage Goal: 1,000
Wreaths So Far: 509
Ceremony On: December 19, 2026 at 11:00 am
Ceremony At: 
Wreath Placement: Following the Ceremony after the families of grave specific wreaths have placed their wreaths.
Grave Specific Placement: December 19, 2026 at 10:30 AM, Please arrive 30 minutes prior to ceremony to collect your Veterans wreath(s) to place immediately following the ceremony.
Wreath Clean Up: January 16, 2027 at 10:00 AM, Meet at the covered area in the southwest area of the cemetery. Please wait until Project manager is on site to begin.

Location Coordinator: Wendy Griffioen, Margaret Levens

Directions to Cemetery

Navigation systems do an adequate job finding the cemetery. When you arrive, please follow the people and signs to the site of the ceremony itself. Be aware, we are a small beach community with very narrow streets and little parking. Suggest parking along both sides of West 1st Street but off the pavement as much as possible.


Parking Instructions

Inside the cemetery, there is plenty of parking.  Keep in mind you must stay on the roadways. No parking on graves.

Ceremony and Volunteer Information

We are committed to ensuring the safety of our community and will be holding a public ceremony and wreath laying.

Sponsored wreaths in 2026 will be placed by volunteers, including Veterans, Active Duty, families, friends and public patrons. If you have purchased a wreath and would like to place it on your Veterans grave, please be at the cemetery at 10:30 am before the ceremony begins to collect your wreath(s). See Margaret Levens at one of the 2 tents. You will be given time immediately following the ceremony to place your Veterans wreath(s) before the other wreaths are placed. Any other special requests, please contact either of our volunteer Location Coordinators Wendy or Margaret by December 18th at wjgriffioen1960@gmail.com or (228) 424-6910 or margaretlevens@gmail.com or (228) 364-3642 to make those arrangements. We look forward to having you join us for this very special occasion.

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Long Beach City Cemetery

Welcome to Long Beach City Cemetery and thank you deeply for helping us with our goal to honor as many veterans as possible on Wreaths Across America Day, December 19, 2026 at 11 am promptly. Please click "View" to learn more about our effort or to volunteer to help or click "Sponsor" to purchase wreaths that will be laid on the graves of our fallen heroes by our loyal volunteers.