About Pleasant View Cemetery
Pleasant View Cemetery is a mennonite and Amish cemetery near Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It lies about 3.4 mi south of Mount Joy. The grounds sit at about 535 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1184084. The nearest other listed cemetery is Hossler Cemetery, about 0.5 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Buch Funeral Home, Inc. in Mount Joy, about 3.4 mi away. It is one of 608 cemeteries we list in Lancaster County, and 200 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Lancaster County dates to 1873. 3 of the 608 listings in Lancaster County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Mount Joy. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
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40.15816, -76.49182
What Pleasant View 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
- Hossler CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery0.5 mi
- Givler CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery0.7 mi
- Shenk CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery1.2 mi
- Gibble GraveyardMount Joy, PACemetery1.3 mi
- Becker GraveyardMount Joy, PACemetery1.3 mi
- Horst CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery1.6 mi
- Keener CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery1.6 mi
- Shelly GravesiteMount Joy, PACemetery1.8 mi
- Witmer CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery1.9 mi
- Mount Pleasant Brethren In Christ CemeteryMount Joy, PAMennonite and Amish cemetery1.9 mi
Funeral homes near Pleasant View Cemetery
- Buch Funeral Home, Inc.3.4 miFuneral home · Mount Joy · (717) 653-4371
- Sheetz Funeral Home, Inc.3.4 miFuneral home · Mount Joy · (717) 653-5441
- William P. Spence Funeral & Cremation Services4.9 miCremation provider · Manheim · (717) 664-2270
- Simple Funerals Inc5.0 miFuneral home · Manheim · (717) 664-1500
- Buch Funeral Home Inc5.1 miFuneral home · Manheim · (717) 665-4341
- Boyer Funeral Home Ltd5.9 miFuneral home · Elizabethtown · (717) 367-1380
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Frequently asked questions
Is Pleasant View Cemetery a Mennonite and Amish cemetery?
Our records list a Mennonite and Amish affiliation, based on the recorded religion of the cemetery. Burial rules for people outside the congregation vary, so ask the cemetery.
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