About Foster Cemetery
Foster Cemetery is a cemetery near Stearns, McCreary County, Kentucky. It lies about 10 mi east of Stearns. The grounds sit at about 879 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 512220. The nearest other listed cemetery is Burkes Cemetery, about 1.4 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Mc Creary Co Funeral Home in Whitley City, about 11 mi away. It is one of 53 cemeteries we list in McCreary County, and 154 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Stearns. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
36.72118, -84.66299
What Foster 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
- Burkes CemeteryMonticello, KYCemetery1.4 mi
- Shearer- Dobbs CemeteryStearns, KYCemetery1.7 mi
- Burke-Kidd CemeteryMonticello, KYCemetery2.0 mi
- Carl Kidd GraveyardMonticello, KYCemetery2.0 mi
- Ryan CemeteryMonticello, KYCemetery2.2 mi
- Denny Farm CemeteryMonticello, KYCemetery2.3 mi
- Burk CemeteryMonticello, KYCemetery2.3 mi
- Bell CemeteryMonticello, KYCemetery2.4 mi
- Gregory CemeteryMonticello, KYCemetery2.6 mi
- Griffin CemeteryMonticello, KYCemetery2.7 mi
Funeral homes near Foster Cemetery
- Mc Creary Co Funeral Home11 miFuneral home · Whitley City · (606) 376-5358
- Hap Strunk Monument Co11 miMonument dealer · Whitley City · (606) 376-5383
- Hickey Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Monticello · (606) 348-4231
- Hicks-Vaughn Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Monticello · (606) 348-9397
- Pine Knot Funeral Home Inc13 miFuneral home · Pine Knot · (606) 354-9100
- J & W Funeral Homes17 miFuneral home · Oneida · (423) 569-8534
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