About Us

Our beginnings...

Vincent P. O’Neill founded the O’Neill Funeral Home in Pawtucket’s Pleasant View neighborhood in 1964. He had worked for 11 years for another Pawtucket family funeral business, run by the McAloon's, before opening his own family business. For more than 25 years, Vincent and his wife Joan lived and raised their eight children right upstairs from the funeral parlor, located on the first floor of their double-decker home at 3 Park Street.

In 1990 Vincent and his youngest son, John H. O’Neill, bought the A.T. Costigan and Son Funeral Home at 220 Cottage Street and merged the two businesses at that address. The new location provided much-needed space for their growing business, allowing the O’Neill's to offer their clients the same high level of personalized service with more room for wakes and funeral services inside and more parking outside. For many years, Vincent and John worked together providing caring service to their city of Pawtucket.

In 2002, John O’Neill bought the Mulcahey Funeral Home at 3012 Mendon Road in northern Cumberland. After making extensive interior and exterior upgrades to the property, he renamed it “O’Neill” and John and his wife Roberta and their three children moved and settled in their beautiful community, where they currently reside.

Vincent has since passed away and John is honored to carry on the tradition started by his father. “My Dad was a caring, compassionate man who loved his family, his home and his community.” Today, John O’Neill with his wife Roberta, and team of caring, expert and licensed funeral professionals work with families throughout Rhode Island and nearby southern Massachusetts. With their two locations, the O’Neill’s offer their client’s the convenience and comfort of being close to a funeral home in a local community. As always and in all cases, they see to it that grieving clients receive the dignified, undivided attention they deserve in their time of need.

It would be the O’Neill family’s honor to serve your family.