Northern State Hospital patients’ grave sites to get memorial, WA money

Northern State Hospital patients’ grave sites to get memorial, WA money

As early as next summer, Carrie Davidson will be able to read her great-grandmother’s name on a new state-funded monument in a field with hundreds of unmarked graves.

Lost patients’ graves to receive state-funded memorial

Lawmakers say this may be just the first step in recognizing more than 1,600 patients buried in and around the Northern State Hospital cemetery.