Amenities

  • Flexible event space
    Facility is available to host your personal events
  • Large-capacity chapel
  • Celebration of life centre
    Facility is designed for personalized funeral celebrations
  • Flexible chapel space
    Our chapel can be used for hosting your religious events
  • Cemetery spaces available
  • Piano or organ on-site
  • Flexible event space
    Facility is available to host your personal events
  • Celebration of life centre
    Facility is designed for personalized funeral celebrations
  • Large-capacity chapel
  • Flexible chapel space
    Our chapel can be used for hosting your religious events
  • Cemetery spaces available
  • Custom headstones and markers
  • Family Estates

    Family Estates are a distinguished tribute to a family legacy. They can be customized with stained glass, benches and landscaping

  • Flat Markers
    Grave markers that sit flush to the ground in the material of preference
  • Upright headstones
    Traditional, upright grave markers
  • Mausoleums
    Private or community spaces, indoors or out, for caskets and urns
  • Coffee lounge
  • Pet friendly
  • On-site cemetery
  • Cremation remembrance jewelry
  • Cremation options
  • Cremation niches
  • Option for home delivery of ashes
  • Option for mail delivery of ashes
    Sent through postal mail service, signature required. Expect delays in Canada due to Covid-19 restrictions on mail requiring a signature.
  • Catered events
  • Event planning
    Services available to support planning events
  • Outdoor celebrations
    Options to have your personalized celebrations on outdoors on our property
  • Arrangements by phone and email
    complete funeral planning without needing a funeral home visit
  • Tribute video production
    Services available to create a tribute video for the service or obituary from photos and videos.
  • Audio and video equipment
  • Popular funeral music selections
  • Intimate gatherings
  • Meeting space
    space available for corporate and organization meetings
  • Black car service
  • Police escort available
  • Cemetery flower arrangement delivery
  • Multicultural funerals
  • Latin music selections
  • Incense burning
  • Cremation niches
  • Cemetery spaces available
  • Spanish/Español

About

McGilley and Frye Funeral Home and Cremation Service in downtown Olathe has offered personalized funeral and cremation services to families in Johnson County and northeastern Kansas for more than 100 years.

Celebration of life venue for services, gatherings and receptions at McGilley & Frye Funeral Home & Cremation ServiceA focus on local care

The McGilley and Frye families have been providing funeral and cremation services since 1897. Over the years, we've maintained a commitment to area families while responding to the changing needs of our community.

Inside McGilley and Frye Funeral Home and Cremation Service, you'll find a large chapel that can accommodate up to 200 guests, a private family room and a music room. These options ensue you have suitable space to gather with friends and family. Additionally, our funeral home team will welcome you with understanding and compassion and guide you through the entire funeral planning process.

We Honor Veterans level 2 badgeWe honor veterans

At McGilley and Frye Funeral Home, we understand the unique needs of America’s veterans and their families. As a Level Two Founding Community Partner with We Honor Veterans, our staff is knowledgeable in the benefits available to veterans and their families. With respect, integrity and dignity, we will walk you through the steps of creating a veteran's memorial service that truly honors the life and sacrifice of your loved one.

Personalized funeral services

Unique feature at McGilley & Frye Funeral Home & Cremation ServiceWith a focus on personal touch, our funeral and cremation services are designed to meet your family's needs and respect your loved one's wishes. We know how difficult it is to lose a loved one and have options that allow you to celebrate their legacy—in both traditional and non-traditional styles. Our funeral home services offer you quality, value and exceptional customer satisfaction.

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Everyone at McGilley and Frye Funeral Home and Cremation Service welcomes you with open arms and the care you expect from a locally operated funeral home. We consider it an honor to serve you, so please contact us if we can assist with your funeral or cremation services, whether at the time of need or when planning ahead.

History

In 1912, W.L. Frye moved with his wife, Ivy V. Frye, and 2 sons, W.L. Frye, Jr. and Martin W. Frye, to Olathe, Kansas, establishing his furniture and undertaking business at the location now occupied by the Olathe Post Office.

In 1929, W.L. Frye and Sons established Olathe Funeral Home as the first licensed funeral home in Johnson County at our present location. The Olathe community welcomed the funeral home, as more than 2,000 guests attended the open house. After many years of service to the community, an air-conditioned chapel with a seating capacity of 200, as well as a private family room and music room were added to the original structure in 1949.

Frye was also a chemist, manufacturing and selling Majestic Embalming Fluid in 8 states. He passed away in 1963 in Olathe at the age of 84 as the oldest licensed embalmer in the state of Kansas.

Our Family Tradition Continues

Martin W. Frye, better known to most Olathe residents as Hank, was born July 31, 1910 in Edgerton. He joined his father in the active management of the funeral home in 1931. With the exception of 3 years spent serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, Hank Frye provided Olathe and surrounding communities with the same high standards of funeral service established by his father.

A graduate of Olathe High School and Williams Institute of Embalming of Kansas City, Hank held licenses in both Kansas and Missouri. Active in community affairs, he served as both president of the Olathe Chamber of Commerce and the Olathe Optimist Club.

Under his direction, W.L. Frye and Son Funeral Home continued to build a reputation that inspired the confidence of the families we served. In 1978, our funeral home underwent extensive remodeling with the addition of a warmly decorated visitation chapel and a brick front exterior. Hank passed away in 1996 at the age of 86.

Present Day

In 2002, the McGilley family added W.L. Frye and Son Funeral Home to McGilley Memorial Chapels. This addition combined more than 200 years of experience, tradition and trust within McGilley and Frye Funeral Home & Cremation Service.

We’re here to serve you and your family for many years to come. We are a member of the Olathe Chamber of Commerce and the Dignity Memorial ® network of funeral, cremation and cemetery service providers, offering exclusive benefits, compassionate care and personalized service.

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Featured customer testimonials

We love hearing from the families we serve. Their feedback helps us continue unique and meaningful celebrations that honor loved ones with unparalleled attention to detail.

Our family's entire experience at McGilley Frye was exceptional, I am so grateful we were in their care,

Verified Cremation & Funeral Service Customer

November 2024

Yes I had some mini urn's I purchased and Jesse Flores helped with filling those with ashes for the family prior to the services. This was so thoughtful and appreciated. He even put a couple of the jewelry pieces in some black draw string bags. ( The jewelry pieces arrived in tiny tacky plastic Ziplocs.) He presented them in a ...

Verified Cremation & Funeral Service Customer

October 2024

Staff was very sincere and caring during a difficult time. They provided the opportunity to add options to a prearranged package but did not put any pressure on changing.

Verified Cremation Customer

October 2024

Jesse and his staff were very compassionate and attentive to the family's needs at church, during transportation & at the cemetery. We look forward to getting the completed photo album when it's finished as a keepsake for the family.

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September 2024

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