O'Neill Funeral Homes

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. , 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. A few years later, John and Vincent purchased the Arpin-Williams-King Funeral Home in Rhode Island"s capital city.

They later acquired and merged with the Hoey Funeral Home down the street. John O"Neill continues running both businesses today from the one Hoey location at 168 Academy Avenue, just across the avenue from historic Blessed Sacrament Church in the Mount Pleasant section of Providence.