About Mount Forest Cemetery
Mount Forest Cemetery is a cemetery near Thornton, Cook County, Illinois. The grounds sit at about 620 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 413960. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens Cemetery South, about 1.2 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Nabors Family Funeral Home in Thornton, about 1.4 mi away. It is one of 187 cemeteries we list in Cook County, and 61 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Cook County dates to 1834. 23 of the 187 listings in Cook County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Thornton. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
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41.57191, -87.60625
What Mount Forest 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
- Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens Cemetery South18301 South Glenwood Thornton Road, Glenwood, ILCemetery1.2 mi
- Homewood Memorial Gardens600 Ridge Road, Homewood, ILMemorial park1.2 mi
- Washington Memory Gardens Cemetery701 Ridge Road, Thornton, ILCemetery1.6 mi
- Oak Ridge CemeteryLansing, ILCemetery1.9 mi
- Oak Glen Lutheran CemeteryLansing, ILLutheran cemetery2.4 mi
- Assumption Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum19500 Cottage Grove Avenue, Glenwood, ILCatholic cemetery2.9 mi
- First Reformed Church of Lansing CemeteryLansing, ILChristian cemetery3.5 mi
- Oakland Memory Lanes Cemetery15200 Lincoln Avenue, Dolton, ILCemetery3.6 mi
- Berger CemeteryDolton, ILCemetery3.6 mi
- Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery801 Michigan City Road, Calumet City, ILCatholic cemetery3.9 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Forest Cemetery
- Nabors Family Funeral Home1.4 miFuneral home · Thornton · (708) 825-1038
- Mcfarland Funeral Services1.4 miFuneral home · Homewood · (708) 996-7893
- Cremation Society Of Illinois1.4 miCremation provider · Homewood · (708) 206-2000
- Illinois Cemetery And Funeral Home Assocation1.4 miFuneral home · Homewood · (708) 960-4840
- Just Cremations Inc.2.0 miCremation provider · Glenwood · (888) 688-5878
- Schaffer Funeral Service2.0 miFuneral home · South Holland · (708) 566-4508
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