Heart Cemetery has served the community of Booker since 1929. Booker was platted in 1917 and named for B.F. Booker, a civil engineer for the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway, whose line extended through the area, and the community included residents from La Kemp, Oklahoma, who relocated to the new railroad town. As the town grew, a cemetery became necessary, and in 1925 Harry Herbert and Mary Agnes (Mullinex) Mitchell donated land to the town for use as a graveyard. In 1929 the City of Booker dedicated the land as Heart Cemetery, a name derived from its heart-shaped design, and the burial ground has also been known as Booker Cemetery. The earliest marked grave is that of Y.E. Winn, who died in 1911 and was reinterred here from an original burial site in Missouri. Notable graves include the town's first physician, Dr. I.T. Smith; businessman William Vernon Shouse, who was involved in oil, real estate, and manufacturing; and the Mitchells, who donated the property. Community doctors, teachers, ministers, farmers, ranchers, other residents, and veterans of military conflicts dating from World War I are also buried here. In 1966 a park and cemetery board was formed to oversee the property, and when the board dissolved in 1975, operation remained under the direction of the City of Booker, which continues to care for the burial ground as a record of local lives reaching back to the pioneer days of settlement.