O’Donnell Funeral Home & Cremation Service

Specialties

O’Donnell Funeral & Cremation Service, owned and operated by the O’Donnell family since 1934, provides funeral and cremation services to families on the North Shore out of its two locations in Salem and Danvers, Massachusetts.

Our staff consists of certified, professional funeral directors, embalmers, and crematory operators, and other death care personnel who handle the entire process with care and dignity, using their experience and skills to ease the burden on families affected by a meaningful loss. Respectfully paying a loved one a final farewell is a difficult but meaningful process, and the O’Donnell family and staff will make all efforts to accommodate the religious or ethnic customs of the deceased’s family. Meeting the needs of those left behind and assuaging the pain of a tremendous loss is the reason why we are here for you.

History

Established in 1933.

The O’Donnell Funeral Home was founded in 1933 by Henry J. O’Donnell Sr. in a store front on Mill Hill in the City of Salem’s downtown section. The funeral home also served as a livery business, offering rental automobiles to families for weddings and special trips to Boston.

After World War II, the funeral business moved from a storefront operation into a funeral home, when Henry J. O’Donnell Sr. was joined by his sons Henry Jr. and William. They purchased a home on the Historic Salem Common, at 46 Washington Square, where the present Salem funeral home continues to conduct business. Henry Sr. passed away in 1960 and in 1968, Henry Jr. was joined in business by his son Thomas A. O’Donnell. In the year 2000 Tom’s son Anthony Cuffe O’Donnell joined the Family Funeral Home.

In 2001, the funeral home in Salem was re guiled to it’s grandiose nature of an earlier era and currently is one of the finest funeral homes on the North Shore.

Meet the Business Owner

Anthony O.

Business Owner

4^th generation of the O’Donnell Family to care for the people of Salem and the North Shore.

Anthony volunteers his time with many civic and religious organizations, including the Salem Rotary, Salem Common Neighborhood Association, HAWK, North Shore Cancer Walk, Hospice of the North Shore and Salem Youth Lacrosse.