Civic & Community Memorials
Monuments that honor those who serve, and give a whole community a place to come back to and remember.
Built for a Whole Community
A civic memorial is different from a family monument. It belongs to a whole department, school, or town, and it’s built to stand at the center of public life. The names on it are searched for and remembered for decades.
For nearly sixty years, our family has worked with police and fire agencies, veterans’ groups, schools, and faith communities across Southern California. We design and build monuments that become gathering places, somewhere people come back to and remember those who served.
Pico Rivera Purple Heart Monument
After the Military Order of the Purple Heart named Pico Rivera a Purple Heart City, the city asked us to build the monument to match. Black granite with tri-tone etched stars, a sandblasted Purple Heart at the center, and six bronze medallions for the six branches, dedicated at Veterans Memorial Plaza on May 26, 2026.
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Anaheim Police K-9 Memorial
VJ Memorials was awarded the contract to design, create, and install this six foot granite German shepherd that keeps watch outside the Anaheim PD East Station. Its Black Granite pedestal honors the service dogs who retired from the department, with room for 150 years of future names so the unit’s memory can keep growing.
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If you’re honoring a department, a school, a fallen member, or a community milestone, we’ll help you design and build a monument, and a place where people can gather. Stop by our Chino factory or reach out and we’ll talk through what’s possible.