About Bess Cemetery
Bess Cemetery is a cemetery near Dunbar, Kanawha County, West Virginia. It lies about 1.5 mi southwest of Dunbar. The grounds sit at about 909 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1535675. The nearest other listed cemetery is Martin / Dunlap Cemetery, about 0.7 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Snodgrass Funeral Home in Charleston, about 1.5 mi away. It is one of 211 cemeteries we list in Kanawha County, and 83 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 1 of the 211 listings in Kanawha County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Dunbar. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
38.37922, -81.72431
What Bess 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
- Martin / Dunlap CemeterySouth Charleston, WVCemetery0.7 mi
- Thurston CemeteryDunbar, WVCemetery1.2 mi
- Grandview Memorial CemeteryDunbar, WVCemetery1.2 mi
- Sunset Memorial ParkDunbar, WVMemorial park1.6 mi
- Asbury Mountain CemeterySouth Charleston, WVCemetery1.7 mi
- Brick CemeteryDunbar, WVCemetery1.7 mi
- Donel C Kinnard Memorial State Veterans CemeteryDunbar, WVVeterans cemetery1.8 mi
- Donel C. Kinnard Memorial State Veterans CemeteryDunbar, WVVeterans cemetery1.8 mi
- Dunlap CemeterySouth Charleston, WVCemetery1.9 mi
- Samuels CemeterySouth Charleston, WVCemetery2.2 mi
Funeral homes near Bess Cemetery
- Snodgrass Funeral Home1.5 miFuneral home · Charleston · (304) 768-7324
- Keller Funeral Home1.7 miFuneral home · Dunbar · (304) 768-1217
- Good Shepherd Mortuary1.8 miMortuary · South Charleston · (304) 744-3446
- Affordable Cremations of West Virginia1.8 miCremation provider · South Charleston · (681) 265-2316
- Callender Funeral Home, LLC3.2 miFuneral home · Charleston · (681) 265-9101
- Cunningham-Parker-Johnson Funeral3.7 miFuneral home · Charleston · (304) 513-3501
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