Military Burial Honors and National Cemetery Burial for Pennsylvania Veterans
The Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs helps make sure veterans in the state receive a proper military burial, and it pays a stipend to veterans organizations that perform burial honors at Pennsylvania's three national cemeteries: Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, National Cemetery of the Alleghenies, and Washington Crossing National Cemetery.
Burial benefits at one of Pennsylvania's national cemeteries are available to eligible veterans. The page does not say what makes a veteran eligible, so ask when you call.
What the burial benefits include: - a gravesite - a government headstone - a flag - a Presidential Memorial Certificate
County veteran service officers and local veterans organizations that serve on the State Veterans' Commission can walk veterans and their families through their burial benefits and help plan and arrange military burial honors. This help often reduces the stress of coordinating a burial.
If you are a family member, contact a funeral director or your County Director of Veterans Affairs to learn about burial at one of these cemeteries. If you are with a veterans organization that wants to provide burial honors at one of the three national cemeteries, contact the DMVA Office of Veterans Affairs for further details about the Burial Honors Program.
The page gives few other details. It lists no phone number, no hours and no cost for the program, and it does not say how long arrangements take, so ask a funeral director or your County Director of Veterans Affairs. The program comes from 51 Pa Consolidated Statutes Section 705.
Source: pa.gov/agencies/dmva/pennsylvania-veterans/pa-vetconnect/…, read September 18, 2026.
The details
In Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs’s words
There approximately 700,000 veterans living in Pennsylvania and the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA) wants to see that every one of them receives a proper military burial when that time comes. Instrumental in this process is the assistance from county veteran service officers or local veterans organizations that serve on the State Veterans’ Commission . These individuals and organizations can walk veterans and their families through their burial benefits, while helping to plan…
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Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
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This listing summarizes publicly available information from pa.gov/agencies/dmva/pennsylvania-veterans/pa-vetconnect/…. Last recorded review: September 18, 2026. Contact the provider to confirm eligibility, hours and availability before you go. If something here is wrong, tell us.