College Station (AP) - The city of College Station is putting the finishing touches on an eternal resting place for folks who are really devoted to Texas A&M University.

The new Memorial Cemetery of College Station, set to open in a few weeks, has reserved a special section for Aggies and their supporters who want to be close — forever — to the sprawling campus and be with like-minded Aggies after they die.

"We're a weird lot, aren't we?" laughs Ross Albrecht, A&M class of 1984, urban landscape manager for the city and marketing supervisor for the cemetery. "There's a lot of school pride."

A few of the nation's universities — Notre Dame, Iowa State, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and Virginia among them — have had school-affiliated cemeteries for nearly two centuries, but this one is believed to be unique in Texas.