De Soto funeral home trading as Cedar Crest Memorial Chapel & Cremation Concepts, whose owner is also its funeral director. It keeps a list of recommendations for religious ceremonies, floral arrangements and cemeteries.

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Gardner funeral home in the Bruce family since 1949, recognized as the oldest continuously owned business established in Johnson County. It occupies an 1895 brick house to which a large chapel, a family room, a music room and a second chapel were added in 1962, and the firm has a monument sales division.

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Merriam chapel of Charter Funerals, listed as its Shawnee Mission location, from a company that began in the Kansas City area in 1995 and runs six funeral homes and four cemeteries in Kansas and Missouri.

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Downtown Olathe funeral home at its present site since 1929, when it opened as the first licensed funeral home in Johnson County. Its chapel seats up to 200, with a private family room and a music room; it joined McGilley Memorial Chapels in 2002 and is in the Dignity Memorial network.

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Olathe funeral home built in 1994 as the Memorial Chapel Funeral Home and Crematory, with a main chapel and, since 2014, a reception room down the hall where families gather before or after a service, with catering packages and custom menus.

Crematory at Penwell-Gabel Funeral Home's Olathe building, which opened in 1994 as the Memorial Chapel Funeral Home and Crematory.

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