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Olathe Memorial Cemetery

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CEMETERY

Olathe Memorial Cemetery

Olathe, KS | Johnson County

Highlights include the 1937 limestone chapel, the John Paulding WWI statue and veterans gravestones, and the Civil War statue and circle of grave markers. Elsewhere are the burial sites of President Barack Obama's great-great-great grandfather Robert Wolfley and Kansas governors George Hodges and John P. St. John. A large single stone marks the graves of employees of Olathe's historic Hyer Boot Company. Information booklets are available at the chapel.

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