Gardens of Memory Cemetery (Minden, Louisiana)

Other cemeteries named "Gardens of Memory" are located in Muncie, and Marion, Indiana, and Houston County, Alabama. There is an Erath Gardens of Memory in Stephenville in Erath County, Texas, an Oakhaven Gardens of Memory in Gibson County, Tennessee, a Resthaven Gardens of Memory in Baton Rouge, and a Garden of Memories in Paducah in Cottle County, Texas, and in Jonesboro in Jackson Parish, Louisiana. There is a Woodlawn Garden of Memories Cemetery in Houston, Texas.

Gardens of Memory Cemetery is a modern cemetery in Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. It was established in 1957 at 1527 Lewisville Road by Carlos S. Green (1908–1979) and Edward James Kleinegger (1906–1981), owners of the former Green-Kleinegger Funeral Home, since purchased and operated at 211 Murrell Street by the Rose-Neath Company of Shreveport.

Green came to Minden in 1944 as a funeral home manager from Many in Sabine Paris, where he was co-owner with M. O. Dennis of the former Dennis-Green Funeral Home.

Like other similarly named cemeteries, Gardens of Memory has only flat grave markers of varying styles, with a few upright monuments erected by the cemetery itself to designate various sections of the grounds. Minden-area burials prior to 1957 occurred either at smaller nearby rural cemeteries or at the older, still functioning, historic Minden Cemetery at the intersections of Pine Street, Goodwill Road, and Bayou Avenue.

There is an original owners' plot for Green, Kleinegger, and their wives, Vasta Smith Green (1908–2002), who retired as a teacher at E.S. Richardson Elementary School, and Augusta "Pat" Kleinegger (1912–1964). The different "gardens" include The Lord's Supper, Good Shepherd, Prayer, Faith, and Youth. A sixth garden, The Cross, has been opened on the right side of the cemetery, as the grounds expand.

Notable interments

• J. D. Batton, SHERIFF of Webster Parish from 1952 to 1964
• Paul A. Brown, mayor of Minden from 1989–1990
• L. L. Clover, Minden clergyman and founder of Louisiana Missionary Baptist Institute and Seminary
• Everett Doerge, educator and state representative from 1992 to 1998
• Henry Grady Hobbs (1923-2012), Minden attorney, businessman, long-time president of the Webster Parish Library Board
• Joshua Barret Madden (1985-2006), United States Army sergeant killed in the Iraq War for whom an interstate exit in Minden is named