About Home of Peace Cemetery
Home of Peace Cemetery is a cemetery near Lakewood, Pierce County, Washington. The grounds sit at about 272 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 2 notable people buried here, including Yaphet Kotto and Walter B. Loewenstein. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1505581. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount View Memorial Park, about 0.7 mi to the east. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Mountain View Funeral Home, Memorial Park and Crematory in Tacoma, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 36 cemeteries we list in Pierce County, and 17 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Pierce County dates to 1917. 2 of the 36 listings in Pierce County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Lakewood. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Home of Peace Cemetery
Among them: 1 actor, 1 scientist.
- Yaphet Kotto1939-2021American actor
- Walter B. Loewenstein1926-2018
People whose Wikidata entry gives Home of Peace 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
47.17733, -122.50877
What Home of Peace 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
- Mount View Memorial ParkLakewood, WAMemorial park0.7 mi
- Calvary CemeteryLakewood, WACemetery1.1 mi
- Western State Hospital Memorial CemeteryLakewood, WACemetery2.3 mi
- Oakwood Hill CemeteryTacoma, WACemetery2.7 mi
- Old Tacoma City CemeteryTacoma, WAMunicipal cemetery2.8 mi
- Fort Steilacoom Pioneer CemeterySteilacoom, WACemetery2.8 mi
- New Tacoma CemeteryUniversity Place, WACemetery2.9 mi
- Masonic Cemetery11902 Masonic Road Southwest, Lakewood, WACemetery3.7 mi
- Trinity Lutherian Cemetery13614 8th Avenue East, Tacoma, WACemetery5.1 mi
- Tribal CemeteryTacoma, WACemetery6.6 mi
Funeral homes near Home of Peace Cemetery
- Mountain View Funeral Home, Memorial Park and Crematory0.5 miCremation provider · Tacoma · (253) 948-9895
- The Valley Chapel, Mountain View Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Tacoma
- Piper Morley Funeral Home1.8 miFuneral home · Lakewood · (253) 204-2441
- Edwards Memorial Funeral Home1.8 miFuneral home · Lakewood · (253) 200-1533
- Piper-morley Funeral Home2.4 miFuneral home · Tacoma · (253) 472-3353
- Oakwood Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery2.7 miFuneral chapel · Tacoma · (253) 473-2901
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