Business Details
50+ Years
experience
Trusted Funeral & Cremation Services in Shawnee, KS
Since 1946, Amos Family Funeral Home has provided compassionate, personalized funeral services to families in Shawnee, Kansas and the greater Kansas City area. As a four-generation family-owned business, we combine deep community roots with over seven decades of expertise in traditional and cremation services. Our dedicated team specializes in creating meaningful tributes that honor individual legacies through customizable options including veterans honors, pet memorials, and advanced planning resources.We maintain two crematories to accommodate diverse cultural observances and offer spacious facilities for gatherings of up to 300 attendees. Our commitment to excellence extends to providing detailed pricing transparency while maintaining competitive rates that reflect our high-quality facilities and professional staff.
Services
Traditional Services
Cremation Services
Personalization
Veterans Services
Pet Services
Details
- Year established: 1946
Highlights and features
- Four generations serving Johnson County since 1946
- Customized tributes with personalization options
- Specialized veteran service honors and benefits assistance
- Dual crematories for diverse cultural observances
- Spacious 300-person reception facility
What people say
Genuine care and support
Professional staff expertise
Meaningful personalized tributes
Seamless arrangements process
Compassionate veterans assistance
Services
Traditional Services
We offer comprehensive traditional funeral services with customizable visitation, chapel or off-site ceremonies, and graveside options. Our professional staff guides families through every detail while providing tribute videos, personalized memorabilia, and live streaming capabilities for distant attendees. Services accommodate both burial and cremation preferences with flexible scheduling for daytime or evening arrangements.
Cremation Services
Our cremation services include traditional funeral ceremonies followed by cremation, memorial services with cremated remains, and private cremation options. We provide permanent memorialization choices like urn placement in columbariums, in-ground burial, or scattering in meaningful locations while maintaining two dedicated crematories for cultural observances.
Veterans Services
We specialize in arranging full military honors including flag presentation, rifle details, and 'Taps' performance. Our team assists families with VA benefit applications, headstone requests, and burial allowances while ensuring proper recognition through ceremonial protocols and memorial items.
Pet Services
Our dedicated pet cremation services provide individual chamber cremation with respectful return of cremains. We offer personalized pet memorials including pawprint keepsakes and specialized service elements to honor animal companions as valued family members during bereavement.
Personalization
We create customized tributes through photo collages, music selections, poetry readings, and artistic displays reflecting individual life stories. Our facilities support tribute videos, personalized registry books, and themed memorials incorporating hobbies, career achievements, and personal collections.
People
E. Paul Amos
Founder
Established the funeral home in 1946 after founding the Shawnee Chamber of Commerce and contributing to local historic preservation projects. Laid foundation for four generations of family service.
Gene Amos
Second Generation
Graduated from mortuary school in 1951, served in the Navy, and expanded services while maintaining community leadership roles including school board service and rotary club presidency.
Gregg Amos
Third Generation
Joined the business after mortuary education in 1979, continuing family tradition with focus on modernization while preserving personal service values and community involvement.
Parker Amos
Current Director
Fourth-generation funeral director since 2012, maintaining family legacy with updated certifications while continuing multi-generational community leadership through local business organizations.
Questions
What types of cremation services do you offer?
We provide traditional funeral services followed by cremation, memorial services with cremated remains, and private cremation options with various memorialization choices.
Do you assist with veterans' benefits?
Yes, we help families obtain VA burial benefits, organize military funeral honors, and complete required documentation for veteran's death benefits.
Can I personalize funeral services?
We offer extensive personalization options including tribute videos, customized music selections, themed memorials, and personalized keepsakes like engraved urns.
Do you have facilities for large gatherings?
Our funeral home features a 300-person reception area with modern decor and two chapels to accommodate both formal and informal gatherings.
Are pet memorials available?
Yes, we offer individual pet cremation services with memorial options treating pets as valued family members during the bereavement process.
How do you handle advance planning?
We provide comprehensive pre-planning resources including online forms, personalized consultations, and guidance for creating detailed future service arrangements.
Reviews (6)
Cindy Stephens
Nov 30, 2021
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Teagan helped us with our Mom's funeral. She did an amazing job. The entire staff at Amos is wonderful. We were so pleased with how it turned out. They made a difficult time very nice for our entire family.
Debra Casey
Nov 05, 2021
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Amos Family Funeral Home were so accommodating, professional, caring and friendly when helping my family plan the funeral for my mother. Exactly what a family is in need of when they lose a loved one. Teagan kept in touch frequently and made calls for me without my even asking her to. We also used them when my father passed thirteen years ago. We received the very same treatment then.
Pat Collette
Oct 29, 2021
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Amos Family Funeral Home provided exemplary service in arranging details from our Mom. Teagan Winger helped our entire family through the process with minimal stress. She was extremely responsive to all of our needs and requests. She was caring and extremely professional. I highly recommend Amos.
Kathy Rowe
Oct 19, 2021
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Amos has been in our community for years. I have always thought they did a good job as I attended funerals here. They were wonderful when my husband passed away. They communicated clearly, were helpful, and took care of details, and followed up so that we felt confident at this time. Everything went smoothly.
Debbie Goheen
Oct 15, 2021
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Amos Funeral Home and Teagan were very professional and kind. They listened to what I wanted to do and helped to get it done. Everything got accomplished in a timely manner and provided helpful support options after.
Noelle Skok
Jul 28, 2021
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The people at Amos are very friendly and helpful. I was trying to obtain more memory bookmarks of my father who passed 8 years ago. Parker Amos found the information and made some up for me. They actually look better than the original. Thank you so much.
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