Prairie Haven Cemetery is what some Hobbsans refer to as the "old" side. It's simply just across the street from the Prairie Haven Memorial Park. Its address is 2101 E Stanolind Rd. It is fenced and gated. Maintained by the City of Hobbs, New Mexico. The hours are April 1-October 31 from 8AM-7PM and November 1-March 31 from 8AM-5PM. There is an office with separate hours at the Memorial Park across the road. Someday I will be there to ask where my grandfather's grave is so I can have a headstone placed there. If you volunteer with the VFW like my daughter and I did today Sunday, May 24, 2026, I would encourage you to bring a screwdriver and a hammer. This is so you can more easily insert those tall flags in front of the graves of military members because the desert ground is terribly hard. Sometimes if the dirt is mixed with sand, it's even harder to plant the flags. We gently cleaned up many graves... military members or not. We couldn't help ourselves. I will bring a knife, a brush maybe and some other tools to cut back the grass from the edge of especially the flat laying headstones. Some were so covered up by overgrowth! It happens! Nice quiet area on a Sunday morning. read more

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