About Rice Cemetery
Rice Cemetery is a cemetery near Starkville, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. It lies about 5.2 mi west of Starkville. The grounds sit at about 331 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 676621. The nearest other listed cemetery is Fox Cemetery, about 0.6 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is West Memorial Funeral Home in Starkville, about 5.2 mi away. It is one of 48 cemeteries we list in Oktibbeha County, and 27 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Starkville. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
33.44039, -88.73060
What Rice 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
- Fox CemeteryStarkville, MSCemetery0.6 mi
- Blair CemeteryStarkville, MSCemetery0.7 mi
- Sessums CemeteryStarkville, MSCemetery1.8 mi
- Seitz CemeteryStarkville, MSCemetery2.4 mi
- Curtis Chapel CemeteryStarkville, MSChurch cemetery2.6 mi
- Memorial Garden Park CemeteryStarkville, MSMemorial park2.7 mi
- Boyd CemeteryStarkville, MSCemetery3.1 mi
- Peters CemeteryStarkville, MSCemetery3.9 mi
- Parrish CemeteryStarkville, MSCemetery3.9 mi
- Salem CemeteryStarkville, MSCemetery4.1 mi
Funeral homes near Rice Cemetery
- West Memorial Funeral Home5.2 miFuneral home · Starkville · (662) 323-6674
- Welch Funeral Home5.3 miFuneral home · Starkville · (662) 323-5905
- Century Hairston Funeral Home5.6 miFuneral home · Starkville · (662) 323-5854
- Carter's Mortuary Services11 miMortuary · West Point · (662) 492-4455
- Robinson Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · West Point · (662) 494-8049
- Westbrooks Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · West Point · (662) 369-4838
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