Abbey View Memorial Park was founded by the Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park in 1953. Abbey View is a quiet cemetery of 82 acres in Brier, located between Kenmore and Mountlake Terrace, just north of Lake Forest Park in Western Washington. Sections of the cemetery are used by both Reform Temple Beth Am, and Conservative Congregation Beth Shalom, synagogues. Temple Beth Am purchased property naming it Gan Shalom, from Evergreen Washelli to start their cemetery in 1999. Congregation Beth Shalom purchased their section in 2000. The two sections are on the Southwest corner of Abbey View property on the West side of Alaska Way.
Evergreen Washelli Cemetery originated in 1884 in an area known as Oak Lake, which in those days was a full day's buggy ride from Seattle (via Ballard). In 1914 the property was sold to the American Necropolis Association, a St. Louis-based company that owned cemetery properties in several states. ANA gave the cemetery the name "Washelli" (a Makah word meaning "west wind"), which had been the name of a Central Seattle cemetery disestablished in 1887. In 1922, Evergreen Cemetery purchased Washelli from ANA.
For more information, history, and a link for genealogy requests, please go to www.washelli.com/locate/ Genealogy Search request form is located at www.washelli.com Abbey View Cemetery Phone: 425 483-0555. Evergreen Washelli Funeral Home Phone: 206-362-5200. For directions to Beth Shalom's section, please go to http://www.jgsws.org/cemeteryproject.php
Thank you to Evergreen Washelli and especially Brenda Spicer, Evergreen Washelli Executive Assistant for compiling this information. Thanks to Nancy JG Adelson, WA State JOWBR Chair and 1st Vice President of Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington.
Picture of the exterior.
Beth Shalom sign.
Gan Shalom sign.
Map of cemetery.
Overview of cemetery.
Another overview of cemetery.
Third overview of cemetery.
