Salt Lake City Cemetery Gold Star Mothers Memorial

The gold star comes from a small flag families once hung in the front window — a blue star for each child in uniform, restitched in gold when one of them died. A mother who lost a son or daughter to war became a Gold Star Mother; after World War I they organized to carry their grief together. This memorial in the Salt Lake City Cemetery keeps no single name. It stands for all of them, past and to come, among the rows of war memorials the cemetery has gathered over more than a century.

What the plaque says

In loving memory of all Gold Star Mothers, past, present and future.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ensign Peak — 1.7 mi
  A short hike to the spot where Brigham Young surveyed the valley
• Red Butte Garden — 1.8 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views
• Salt Lake City — 1.9 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
• Temple Square — 1.9 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City

More markers nearby

• Japanese American Servicemen's Memorial — 0.3 mi
• G.A.R. Monument — 0.4 mi
• Lindsey Gardens - First Playground — 0.5 mi
• Sisters of the Holy Cross — 0.8 mi