American Monument& Granite Co.
(330) 325-2500
American Monument& Granite Co.
(330) 325-2500
Opened in 1956 by Belden Village, with a second ground, Sunset Hills Memory Gardens, three miles north on Frank Avenue. Where both are, who to call, how to find a grave, and how a headstone from a monument company like ours gets there.
Sunset Hills Burial Park opened in 1956 on Everhard Road NW, in what its owner calls the heart of Belden Village. Sunset Hills Memory Gardens followed in 1969 at 7920 Frank Ave. NW, about three miles north. They're separate grounds, and both go by the Sunset Hills Memory Gardens name today. The office is at the Burial Park on Everhard Road.
The cemetery is part of Dignity Memorial, the network of funeral and cemetery providers that includes affiliates of Service Corporation International. Karlo-Libby Funeral Home stands across Everhard Road. It opened there in the early 1990s as Atkinson-Feucht-Shaidnagle Sunset Hills Chapel, a funeral home across from the cemetery, and has carried the Karlo-Libby name since 2010.
The map of the grounds names the sections: Devotion, Gethsemane, Last Supper, Sermon on the Mount, Good Shepherd and Christus at the Burial Park, along with a Masonic section and a section named Babyland. The Memory Gardens has the Family Heritage gardens, the Garden of Peace and Brotherhood, the Garden of Honor, two veterans areas, and two mausoleums.
Canton, North Canton, or Jackson Township? The addresses say Canton and North Canton, but the Stark County Auditor’s parcel records put both grounds in Jackson Township. Belden Village is the commercial area around the Burial Park, not a town.
Find a Grave records Thurman Munson, the New York Yankees catcher who died in 1979, in the Burial Park.
History, sections, and hours are from Dignity Memorial’s Karlo-Libby and Sunset Hills page and the cemetery map it publishes; the township is from the Stark County Auditor’s parcel records; Munson’s burial is from Find a Grave. All checked 2026-11-02. The cemetery office is the authority on anything current.
There’s no online burial search for Sunset Hills. The quickest way to find a grave is to call the office on (330) 494-2051 with the name and ask for the section and lot. Dignity Memorial publishes a map of both grounds with the sections named, which helps once you know where you’re going. Find a Grave has volunteer listings for both grounds, but they aren’t the cemetery’s records.
Decorations. Sunset Hills hasn’t published its decoration rules or clean-up dates online. Its “cleanup schedule” link gives only a phone number, the funeral home’s (330) 494-9644. So before you leave a wreath for the winter, or anything you’d be sorry to lose, call the office on (330) 494-2051 and ask when things are cleared.
Checked against Dignity Memorial’s cemetery page for Sunset Hills on 2026-11-02. The office is the authority, not this page.
Dignity Memorial sells granite and bronze markers and monuments itself, through the cemetery. Sunset Hills hasn’t published memorial rules of its own: nothing online on sizes, on which sections take an upright, on foundations, or on stones from an outside company. We don’t publish rules we can’t source, so this page doesn’t guess at them.
What Dignity Memorial does publish is a general buyer’s guide to grave markers, not written for Sunset Hills or any one cemetery. It says a marker can also be bought elsewhere and installed by your cemetery for a fee, and that the buyer is responsible for knowing the cemetery’s rules and choosing a material and size it accepts.
That second part is the reason to ask first. Before you’ve chosen anything, we’ll find out from the office what the section permits, what the cemetery requires for the installation, and what it charges, so what you fall for is something Sunset Hills will accept.
From Dignity Memorial’s grave markers page, a general buyer’s guide rather than Sunset Hills’ own rules, checked 2026-11-02. The cemetery office has the final word.
We’re a monument shop in Ravenna, about twenty miles from Sunset Hills, and we work in every cemetery in Stark County. Sunset Hills is one of them. The granite is cut, lettered, and finished by hand in our own shop.
We ask the cemetery first, every time. At Sunset Hills that means the section, what it permits, and how the cemetery wants the stone installed, before you’ve chosen anything. If what you have in mind isn’t allowed there, you’ll hear it from us early, while changing your mind is still free. Then we make the stone and file what needs filing. At most cemeteries, the cemetery pours the foundation and we set the stone on it. Dignity’s general guide says the cemetery installs a marker bought elsewhere, so we’ll find out which way Sunset Hills does it and arrange it with the office.
You don’t have to make the drive to order. We can start from a phone call and send proofs. If you’d rather see granite in daylight than on a screen, the showroom in Ravenna is open weekdays, with evenings and weekends by appointment, and there’s no obligation attached to walking in. Our Canton page covers the other cemeteries around the city.
The traditional standing headstone, for one name or two, or a family monument carrying several, where the section takes one. Shape, granite color, carving, and etching are decided with you.
Slant, bevel, and flat markers in granite, and bronze. Dignity Memorial’s own buying guide notes that some cemeteries allow only flush markers, which is worth asking about before you fall for an upright.
Solid granite benches, engraved. A place to sit at the grave rather than stand at it, where the cemetery allows one.
Sunset Hills offers columbaria and cremation gardens. A memorial for cremated remains goes where the cemetery designates, so that’s the first question to put to the office.
Adding a date or a name to a stone already standing is done at the grave, once the cemetery has agreed. Straightening a stone that has leaned or sunk is part of the same service.
Start with what to say rather than what to buy. Our guide to what to write on a headstone covers names, dates, epitaphs, and emblems, and granite colors explains which stone suits which kind of lettering.
5001 Everhard Rd. NW, Canton, Ohio 44718, near Belden Village, with Karlo-Libby Funeral Home across the road. The grounds are open sunrise to sunset. The cemetery office is on (330) 494-2051, and Dignity Memorial, which runs the cemetery, also takes questions on (330) 494-9644, the funeral home's line.
They're two grounds under one name. Sunset Hills Burial Park opened on Everhard Road in 1956, and Sunset Hills Memory Gardens opened in 1969 at 7920 Frank Ave. NW, about three miles north. Dignity Memorial markets both as Sunset Hills Memory Gardens today, and the office is at the Burial Park.
The address says Canton, but both grounds are in Jackson Township. The Stark County Auditor's parcel records put the Burial Park and the Memory Gardens in Jackson Township, and Canton and North Canton are the post office names.
It's part of Dignity Memorial, the network of funeral and cemetery providers that includes affiliates of Service Corporation International, and it shares its listing with Karlo-Libby Funeral Home across Everhard Road. The county's parcel records list the land under the Sunset Hills Burial Park Association.
The cemetery doesn't have an online burial search. Dignity Memorial publishes a map of the sections at both grounds, and you can call the office with the name and ask for the section and lot. Find a Grave has volunteer listings for both grounds, but they aren't the cemetery's records.
Yes. Find a Grave records the New York Yankees catcher, who died in 1979, in Sunset Hills Burial Park, Section 1.
Dignity Memorial sells markers and monuments itself. Its general buyer's guide, not written for any one cemetery, says a marker can also be bought elsewhere and installed by the cemetery for a fee, and that the buyer is responsible for knowing the cemetery's rules. Sunset Hills hasn't published its own memorial rules, so we ask the office before you choose anything.
The cemetery sets that, and it hasn't published its rules, so the answer has to come from the office rather than from a website. Tell us the section and we'll ask on your behalf before you choose anything.
If the cemetery agrees, yes. Adding a date or a name to a stone already standing is ordinary work for us, and it's done at the grave, not by taking the stone away. We ask the office first.
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