About West Newton Cemetery
West Newton Cemetery is a cemetery near West Newton, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The grounds sit at about 853 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 5 notable people buried here, including Joseph F. Guffey, Danny Taylor and Hannah Jane Patterson. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1191081. The nearest other listed cemetery is Gressly Family Cemetery, about 1.6 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Beatty-Rich Funeral Home in West Newton, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 124 cemeteries we list in Westmoreland County, and 72 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 1 of the 124 listings in Westmoreland County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, West Newton. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at West Newton Cemetery
Among them: 1 baseball player, 1 US senator.
- Joseph F. Guffey1870-1959American politician
- Danny Taylor1900-1972American baseball player
- Hannah Jane Patterson1879-1937American suffragist and defense official in World War I
- Samuel Wakefield1799-1895Born 1799; died 1895
- Tammy Zywicki1971-1992American student murdered 1992 in Missouri, U.S.
People whose Wikidata entry gives West Newton Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
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What West Newton 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
- Gressly Family CemeteryCollinsburg, PAFamily cemetery1.6 mi
- Weaver and Waddell Cemetery1803 Weddell Road, Elizabeth, PACemetery2.2 mi
- Salem Regular Baptist Church CemeteryFellsburg, PAChristian cemetery2.2 mi
- Mill Grove CemeteryWest Newton, PACemetery2.3 mi
- Guffey CemeteryIndustry, PACemetery2.8 mi
- Fells CemeteryFellsburg, PACemetery3.0 mi
- Sewickley Presbyterian Church CemeteryWest Newton, PAPresbyterian cemetery3.5 mi
- Olive Branch CemeteryWest Newton, PAChristian cemetery3.7 mi
- Saint Timothys CemeteryPerryopolis, PACemetery4.3 mi
- Wineland Grove CemeteryCollinsburg, PACemetery4.5 mi
Funeral homes near West Newton Cemetery
- Beatty-Rich Funeral Home0.5 miFuneral home · West Newton · (724) 446-5511
- Dodson Richard F Memorial Home0.5 miFuneral home · West Newton · (724) 872-5300
- Richard F. Dodson Memorial Home0.5 miFuneral home · West Newton
- Mccauley Funeral Home0.5 miFuneral home · West Newton · (724) 872-6699
- James C. Stump Funeral Home Inc.2.6 miFuneral home · Belle Vernon · (724) 929-7934
- Exquisite Funeral & Cremation Services Inc4.7 miCremation provider · Donora
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