Our Cemetery

More than 60 years ago, when Beth El’s founders were establishing our cemetery, they envisioned a place of honor and dignity to the deceased and a source of comfort to visitors. Over those years, Beth El has worked very hard to live up to our founders’ dreams.  

Our cemetery is located in a peaceful, beautiful section of Avon, CT. We welcome all of the Jewish faith for burial in our Cemetery. Our rabbinic staff usually officiates at burials; others may serve in that capacity with permission from our rabbis. 

 

To ensure that our cemetery maintains the beauty that our founders intended, Beth El Cemetery By-laws and Rules and Regulations set out standards for monuments, footstones and decorations as well as who may be buried in a multi-grave plot. 

 

Members receive a discounted price on both graves and burial fees. Please contact the Beth El office at (860) 233-9696 for pricing information. We are happy to meet with you at the synagogue and/or visit the cemetery with you to discuss your needs. Please contact Beth El Executive Director Rabbi Howard Sowalsky (phone number above) or hsowalsky@bethelwh.org or Cemetery Committee Chair Lois Koteen at cemetery@bethelwh.org.

 

51 Jackson Street

Avon, CT 06001

 

 

 

 

From Albany Avenue (Route 44) in West Hartford, go West to Avon.

 

In Avon Center, at the traffic light just before O’Neill Chevrolet, take a left onto Old Farms Road.

 

Proceed on Old Farms Road to Arch Road.

 

Take a right onto Arch Road.

 

Continue past St. Ann’s Cemetery to Jackson Street.

 

Take a left onto Jackson Street.

 

Take the right fork over the unpaved road through the wooded area to the cemetery.

 

Park in the open area.