About Sunrise Cemetery
Sunrise Cemetery is a cemetery near Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee. It lies about 5.2 mi west of Athens. The grounds sit at about 879 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1303944. The nearest other listed cemetery is Cochran Cemetery, about 1.7 mi to the southeast. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Smith Funeral & Cremation Services in Athens, about 4.6 mi away. It is one of 129 cemeteries we list in McMinn County, and 73 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Athens. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
35.42868, -84.50215
What Sunrise 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
- Cochran CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery1.7 mi
- Cunningham CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery2.1 mi
- Zion Hill Baptist Church CemeteryAthens, TNBaptist cemetery2.2 mi
- Slacks CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery2.6 mi
- Mount Arnon CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery2.7 mi
- Mars Hill CemeteryEtowah, TNCemetery2.7 mi
- Reynolds CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery2.9 mi
- Mount Cumberland CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery3.0 mi
- Slacks CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery3.0 mi
- Burns CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery3.1 mi
Funeral homes near Sunrise Cemetery
- Smith Funeral & Cremation Services4.6 miCremation provider · Athens · (423) 745-3013
- Companion Funeral and Cremation5.0 miCremation provider · Athens · (423) 453-2302
- Laycock-Hobbs Funeral Home5.5 miFuneral home · Athens · (423) 745-5361
- Ziegler Funeral Home5.6 miFuneral home · Athens · (423) 745-3123
- Good Samaritan Funeral Home6.3 miFuneral home · Athens · (423) 405-5277
- M D Dotson and Sons Funeral Home6.4 miFuneral home · Athens · (423) 745-1473
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