Buhl, Minnesota · Serving the Iron Range & Northern MN
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Family-Owned in Buhl, Minnesota · Since 1996

Monuments Built to Outlast the Weather. Foundations Built to Outlast the Cement.

JM Monument crafts headstones and foot markers for cemeteries across the Iron Range, and manufactures the patented Grave Saver® — a lifetime-warrantied foundation that stops markers from sinking, cracking, and staining.

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The Markas family marker after Grave Saver: framed, level, and clean-edged.
The Markas family marker before Grave Saver: flush with the lawn, no border, edges lost in the grass.
Before After
Proof, not promises. This is the Markas family's own marker — the reason Grave Saver exists.
Lifetime Warranty
US Patent D608,975 S
Made in the USA
Family-Owned Since 1996

What We Build

Three Ways We Help a Family Say a Name in Stone

From the marker itself to the foundation underneath it, everything JM Monument makes is meant to hold up in a Minnesota cemetery for generations.

Patented Product

Grave Saver®

The foundation system that stops flat and bevel markers from sinking, cracking, or staining — lifetime warranty, $99.

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Headstones & Monuments

Upright and bevel monuments, designed and engraved to tell one family's story in granite.

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Foot Markers

Flush and bevel foot markers sized to fit a Grave Saver foundation from day one.

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John Markas holding a Grave Saver foundation beside the Markas family monument and the flat marker it protects.

Our Story

Started at One Grave, in One Cemetery, in Buhl

I have been in the monument business since 1996, when I started straightening, leveling, and selling headstones, foot stones, and grave markers at my local cemetery.
— John Markas, Founder

Grave Saver came out of that same work — watching family markers sink and crack in cement, including the Markas family's own stone. Every Grave Saver made today still carries a lifetime warranty and a U.S. patent number because it was built to fix a problem John saw firsthand.

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Proudly Serving the Iron Range & Northern Minnesota

Based in Buhl, JM Monument works directly with families and cemeteries across Northern Minnesota — and ships the Grave Saver® nationwide.

Have a Marker That's Sinking or Cracking?

Call us or send a photo — we can usually tell you the right fix over the phone.

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