Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery: A Family Guide to Burial and Cremation Options

For families considering Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery for a loved one’s final resting place, this guide covers what burial there costs and how pricing works, the sections and requirements to know about, how we coordinate the day, practical visiting notes, and — for those who want it — the cemetery’s history.

We coordinate at Mount Olivet with no financial stake in the cemetery and no referral fee. When a family’s situation fits a Dallas-side Catholic cemetery better than the drive to Fort Worth, we say so plainly.

What does burial at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery cost in 2026?

Honestly: the cemetery sets these prices, they change, and published third-party numbers go stale quickly — so we quote none here. Current plot, niche, and opening/closing prices are available directly from the cemetery office, and when you work with us we obtain the current figures for you, in writing, before anything is committed. Mount Olivet’s historic sections generally price in the middle of the DFW range, with premium and mausoleum options above that.

As DFW-market context from our cost-of-dying guide: in-ground plots across Dallas–Fort Worth typically run $2,500–$8,000 (premium garden and feature plots considerably more), opening and closing $1,500–$2,800 per interment, a vault or grave liner $700–$3,500 where required, cremation niches $1,200–$5,500, and monuments from about $1,500 through a separate monument company.

Whatever the cemetery’s current numbers are, our role costs nothing extra: cemetery charges are paid to the cemetery at cost, with no coordination fee and no markup from Vargas-London.

Which sections and requirements should families know about?

Mount Olivet is the anchor Catholic cemetery of the Diocese of Fort Worth, with requirements and traditions of its own:

• Eligibility: Catholic-cemetery norms apply — baptized Catholics and, in defined cases, non-Catholic members of a Catholic family. The cemetery office confirms by section.
• Historic Hispanic Catholic sections with traditional burial markers reflect more than a century of Northside families; marker styles in historic sections may be constrained to match.
• Cremated remains are interred or inurned per Catholic practice rather than scattered.
• All Saints Catholic Church (214 NW 20th St), the historic Northside parish, is within walking distance — many Mount Olivet burials follow a Funeral Mass there.

How does Vargas-London coordinate a burial at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery?

We handle the cemetery end to end: first contact and section selection, a written comparison of the options, timing between the church or chapel service and the committal, transport and procession (with police escort if requested), casket or urn requirements, vault ordering, and the monument referral afterward. The graveside service itself typically runs 15–30 minutes; the cemetery completes the burial after the family departs, and the marker follows from the monument company some weeks later.

For Northside families we coordinate the Funeral Mass at All Saints and the committal at Mount Olivet as one continuous morning — the church and cemetery are blocks apart, so the procession is a matter of minutes. There is no upcharge for any of it — our published packages cover cemetery coordination at every DFW cemetery. Questions cost nothing either: (214) 550-7369, answered 24/7.

What should visiting families know?

Most DFW cemetery grounds are open from roughly 7 AM to dusk daily, with free visitor parking; call ahead to confirm hours. Flower policies vary by cemetery and section — fresh flowers are almost always welcome, while artificial arrangements, glass, and candles are often restricted. Ground maintenance is the cemetery’s job, not the family’s, and many cemeteries offer holiday flower-placement programs. Visiting families should allow for the cross-metroplex drive; the Northside location puts the cemetery minutes from the Stockyards, and historic sections reward unhurried visits.

What is the history of Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery?

Mount Olivet dates to the late 19th century and is the diocesan-affiliated anchor Catholic cemetery for the Diocese of Fort Worth. Its roughly 75 acres in the Northside carry deep significance for Fort Worth’s Hispanic Catholic community; many Stockyards-area families have relatives buried there going back generations, often following Funeral Masses at All Saints.