O'Brien County Cemetery
Preservation Association
Our Organization
Our Vision
The O’Brien County Cemetery Preservation Association (OCCPA) aspires to preserve the pioneer cemeteries of O’Brien County Iowa as a tribute to the early settlers of this area.
Our Mission
The mission of the O’Brien Country Cemetery Preservation Association is to locate, record, restore and maintain all the pioneer cemeteries of O’Brien County Iowa.
Our Goal
To continue our efforts of restoring and preserving O’Brien County Iowa’s pioneer cemeteries. The process will include:
1. The Association will conduct extensive historical research on the cemeteries themselves and those buried therein. We will make the information available and at area libraries.
2. The Association will preserve and maintain the cemeteries themselves and the stones therein by.
a. Cleaning up intact stones.
b. Conserving broken stones.
c. Erecting new stones in instances where the exact burial location is known but there is no existing marker.
3. We will erect signs to aid those interested in the cemeteries.
a. Cleaning up intact stones.
b. Conserving broken stones.
c. Erecting new stones in instances where the exact burial
location is known but there is no existing marker.