About Pine Crest Cemetery
Pine Crest Cemetery is a cemetery near Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama. It lies about 4.9 mi northeast of Mobile. The grounds sit at about 16 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 14 notable people buried here, including Winston Groom, Frank William Boykin and Sonny Callahan. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 124848. The nearest other listed cemetery is Lartigue Cemetery, about 1.3 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Pine Crest Funeral Home & Pine Crest Cemetery in Mobile, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 169 cemeteries we list in Mobile County, and 86 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Mobile County dates to 1848. 1 of the 169 listings in Mobile County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Mobile. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Pine Crest Cemetery
Among them: 3 US representatives, 2 football players, 2 baseball players, 2 business leaders, 2 writers, 1 Vietnam War veteran, 1 World War II veteran.
- Winston Groom1943-2020American writer
- Frank William Boykin1885-1969American politician
- Sonny Callahan1932-2021American politician
- Tommie Agee1942-2001American baseball player
- John McDuffie1883-1950American politician
- Harry J. Sonneborn1915-1992American businessman
- Alex T. Howard, Jr.1924-2011United States federal judge
- Dan Thomas1951-1980American baseball player
- Avelin P. Tacon, Jr.1914-2014United States Air Force general
- Louis E. Boone1941-2005American academic
- Lura Harris Craighead1858-1926American civic and patriotic worker, author, parliamentarian, clubwoman
- Riley Smith1911-1999American football player and coach
Show all 14 notable burials
- Zeke Martindied 1976American basketball player and coach
- Anne Turner Gaillard1944-2020Early victim of the COVID-19 pandemic
People whose Wikidata entry gives Pine Crest Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
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What Pine Crest Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- Lartigue CemeteryMobile, ALCemetery1.3 mi
- Carmelite Monastery CemeteryMobile, ALCemetery2.2 mi
- Casher CemeteryMobile, ALCemetery2.3 mi
- Pleasant Valley CemeteryMobile, ALCemetery2.3 mi
- Jewish CemeteryMobile, ALJewish cemetery2.9 mi
- Ahavas Chesed CemeteryMobile, ALJewish cemetery2.9 mi
- Little Magnolia CemeteryMobile, ALCemetery2.9 mi
- Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church CemeteryTillmans Corner, ALBaptist cemetery2.9 mi
- Reformed Temple Jewish CemeteryMobile, ALJewish cemetery3.0 mi
- 28Mobile, ALCemetery3.0 mi
Funeral homes near Pine Crest Cemetery
- Phillips Monuments0.3 miMonument dealer · Mobile · (251) 470-0463
- Pine Crest Funeral Home & Pine Crest Cemetery0.3 miFuneral home · Mobile · (251) 478-5227
- Smith's Mortuary2.3 miMortuary · Mobile · (251) 345-4300
- Gates of Heaven Mortuary2.5 miMortuary · Mobile · (251) 308-5576
- Metropolitan Funeral Directors2.5 miFuneral home · Mobile · (251) 479-2300
- Small's Mortuary & Cremation Services2.9 miCremation provider · Mobile · (251) 431-0559
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