About Van Riper Cemetery
Van Riper Cemetery is a cemetery near Dowagiac, Cass County, Michigan. It lies about 3.9 mi northwest of Dowagiac. The grounds sit at about 807 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2109395. The nearest other listed cemetery is Whitmanville Cemetery, about 0.5 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Wagner Family Funerals Connelly Chapel in Cassopolis, about 3.4 mi away. It is one of 67 cemeteries we list in Cass County, and 41 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 2 of the 67 listings in Cass County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Dowagiac. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
41.95888, -86.03999
What Van Riper 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
- Whitmanville CemeteryCassopolis, MICemetery0.5 mi
- Schulte CemeteryCassopolis, MICemetery1.2 mi
- Brady CemeteryCassopolis, MICemetery2.0 mi
- Riverside CemeteryDowagiac, MIChurch cemetery3.2 mi
- Prospect Hill CemeteryCassopolis, MICemetery3.3 mi
- White CemeteryDowagiac, MICemetery3.3 mi
- Youngs Prairie CemeteryCassopolis, MICemetery3.7 mi
- Dewey CemeteryDowagiac, MICemetery4.0 mi
- Burlington CemeteryDowagiac, MICemetery4.4 mi
- Moon CemeteryCassopolis, MICemetery4.6 mi
Funeral homes near Van Riper Cemetery
- Wagner Family Funerals Connelly Chapel3.4 miFuneral home · Cassopolis · (269) 445-2435
- Starks Family Funeral Homes - Clark Chapel4.2 miFuneral home · Dowagiac · (269) 782-2135
- Paul Mayhew Funeral Home Inc11 miFuneral home · Edwardsburg · (269) 663-5345
- Starks Family Funeral Homes - Newell Chapel12 miFuneral home · Decatur · (269) 423-2561
- Bowerman Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Eau Claire · (269) 461-4241
- Halbritter Wickens Funeral Services14 miFuneral home · Niles · (269) 683-3000
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