WESTWOOD : Veterans Cemetery Will Run Out of Space in July

The Los Angeles National Cemetery, which in 1976 ran out of space for remains in caskets, will exhaust its space for cremated remains by the end of July, it was announced Monday.

The only future burials allowed, said cemetery director Helen Szumylo, will be those of family members in the same grave as a veteran. Veterans and their families who wish to be buried in a military cemetery can be buried at Riverside National Cemetery, she said.

The 114.5-acre cemetery, at 950 S. Sepulveda Blvd., contains more than 86,000 interments, Szumylo said, including 14 Medal of Honor recipients. The cemetery was established in 1889 as part of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

It was one of 10 cemeteries nationwide that were established to aid Union veterans permanently disabled by Civil War wounds. The cemetery and the home became part of the Veterans Administration in 1930.