About Willis Cemetery
Willis Cemetery is a cemetery near Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee. It lies about 11 mi northwest of Newport. The nearest other listed cemetery is Brooks-Messer Cemetery, about 0.6 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Manes Funeral Home in Newport, about 10 mi away. It is one of 332 cemeteries we list in Cocke County, and 202 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Newport. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
35.88946, -83.02605
What Willis 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
- Brooks-Messer CemeteryNewport, TNCemetery0.6 mi
- A J Stokely CemeteryNewport, TNCemetery1.0 mi
- Goodnough CemeteryNewport, TNCemetery1.1 mi
- Stokley CemeteryNewport, TNCemetery1.1 mi
- Turner CemeteryNewport, TNCemetery1.3 mi
- Royal Stokely CemeteryNewport, TNCemetery1.3 mi
- Ellison CemeteryNewport, TNCemetery1.3 mi
- Varner CemeteryNewport, TNCemetery1.3 mi
- Piney Grove Baptist Church CemeteryNewport, TNBaptist cemetery1.4 mi
- Williams-Walker-Dellinger CemeteryNewport, TNCemetery1.6 mi
Funeral homes near Willis Cemetery
- Manes Funeral Home10 miFuneral home · Newport · (423) 623-6952
- Madison Funeral Services18 miFuneral home · Marshall · (828) 649-9163
- Kiser-rose Hill Funeral Home20 miFuneral home · Greeneville · (423) 636-8007
- Farrar Funeral Home21 miFuneral home · White Pine · (865) 674-2441
- Madison Funeral Services21 miFuneral home · Marshall · (828) 649-9163
- Jeffers Funeral-Cremation Services22 miCremation provider · Greeneville · (423) 639-2141
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