About Witmer Cemetery
Witmer Cemetery is a cemetery near Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It lies about 5.3 mi south of Mount Joy. The grounds sit at about 410 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2799338. The nearest other listed cemetery is Abraham Gibbel Family Cemetery, about 0.8 mi to the northwest. The nearest cremation provider we know of is William P. Spence Funeral & Cremation Services in Manheim, about 5.1 mi away. It is one of 608 cemeteries we list in Lancaster County, and 194 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.
Map
40.18517, -76.49033
What Witmer 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
- Abraham Gibbel Family CemeteryMount Joy, PAFamily cemetery0.8 mi
- Mastersonville Brethren in Christ CemeteryMount Joy, PAMennonite and Amish cemetery0.8 mi
- Chiques Church of the Brethren CemeteryMount Joy, PAChurch cemetery0.9 mi
- Shenk CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery1.0 mi
- Henry Eshelman Farm CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery1.0 mi
- Gibble GraveyardMount Joy, PACemetery1.2 mi
- Givler CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery1.3 mi
- Keener CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery1.4 mi
- Schneider GraveyardElizabethtown, PACemetery1.5 mi
- Gantz Menonite Church CemeteryManheim, PAChurch cemetery1.7 mi
Funeral homes near Witmer Cemetery
- William P. Spence Funeral & Cremation Services5.1 miCremation provider · Manheim · (717) 664-2270
- Simple Funerals Inc5.1 miFuneral home · Manheim · (717) 664-1500
- Buch Funeral Home, Inc.5.2 miFuneral home · Mount Joy · (717) 653-4371
- Buch Funeral Home Inc5.2 miFuneral home · Manheim · (717) 665-4341
- Sheetz Funeral Home, Inc.5.3 miFuneral home · Mount Joy · (717) 653-5441
- Boyer Funeral Home Ltd6.4 miFuneral home · Elizabethtown · (717) 367-1380
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