Richardson-Gaffey Funeral Home

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Richardson-Gaffey Funeral Home We provide compassionate support and personalized, meaningful services for families in Scituate, Massachusetts Gaffey & Sons Funeral Home (est. 1969).

Richardson-Gaffey Funeral Home is a combination of the Ernest A. Richardson Funeral Home (est. 1955) and the Edward J. Our home, located on First Parish Road, has transformed from a simple 1890s farmhouse with the town post office in the front room to a warm and inviting building, including a spacious chapel for large services and a smaller room for more intimate gatherings. All of our services are designed to help our client families through one of the most personal and challenging stages of life. We understand losing a loved one is an emotional and difficult experience, and we are committed to helping our client families with compassionate, professional and personal service. Our commitment to our community has remained unchanged, yet our funeral home has always responded to the changing needs of the community. We’re proud to be a member of the Dignity Memorial® network of funeral, cremation and cemetery service providers. Dignity Memorial providers offer exclusive benefits, including National Transferability of Prearranged Services, the Bereavement Travel Program, the 24-Hour Compassion Helpline® and access to an acclaimed grief management library. The Dignity Memorial brand is your assurance of quality, value, caring service and customer satisfaction. Our funeral directors Sara Collins and Mike McCormack are dedicated to our beautiful community and all of the families we serve. Mike was born and raised in Rockland, where he lives with his wife and Sara is from Rhode Island and moved to Scituate with her husband and two children in 2014.

What’s spookier than a funeral home on Halloween?? One with candy! Come by Richardson-Gaffey Funeral Home, 382 First Par...
10/31/2026

What’s spookier than a funeral home on Halloween??

One with candy! Come by Richardson-Gaffey Funeral Home, 382 First Parish Road, Scituate, and grab some candy and vote for the best employee carved pumpkin.

Congratulations to our Manager Mike for winning this years annual Richardson-Gaffey Funeral Home Costume Contest dressed...
10/30/2026

Congratulations to our Manager Mike for winning this years annual Richardson-Gaffey Funeral Home Costume Contest dressed as “Spooky Cat Guy in Pumpkin Shirt”. 

He has won every contest since 2019 except 2022 when the contest was cancelled due to a contract dispute with the costume company he uses. He has ran unopposed every year.

Be sure to swing by the Funeral Home on Halloween night to grab candy and vote on employee carved pumpkins. 🎃

Did you attend our recent pre need seminar at the absolutely fabulous Restaurant Oro in Scituate? We had a great night o...
10/15/2026

Did you attend our recent pre need seminar at the absolutely fabulous Restaurant Oro in Scituate? We had a great night of food, drinks and questions about….death.

It’s something that we have all experienced but usually have had little control over.

This seminar highlighted the importance of pre planning so you have control over what happens after you pass and the relief your family can experience knowing everything is taken care of, and more improtantly, paid for.

You don’t have to come to one of our seminars to get the professional advice from a licensed funeral director about your wishes, you can just give us a call to set up a time to sit down.

We have coffee, tea and lots of mints. Nothing that can compare to a fine meal at Restaurant Oro, but if you want to bring food to one of our appointments, we don’t mind…but we really like chicken wings and Caesar salads. So if you happen to bring those, we won’t complain.

Police appreciation week isn’t just for the humans. We had Scituate PD’s own Comfort Dog K-9 Blue stop by today so we co...
06/02/2026

Police appreciation week isn’t just for the humans. We had Scituate PD’s own Comfort Dog K-9 Blue stop by today so we could give him lots of pets and some new toys. A very good boy.

Lunch for our Scituate first responders for Police appreciation week (we couldn’t let the fire fighters go hungry). Than...
05/20/2026

Lunch for our Scituate first responders for Police appreciation week (we couldn’t let the fire fighters go hungry). Thank you Scituate Fire and Scituate Police.

Thanks for looking the other way when we go through red lights with a funeral procession!

Happy to help the future of our industry!
05/18/2026

Happy to help the future of our industry!

MFDA First Vice President Gary Toye of Stanetsky Memorial Chapel recently facilitated a Resume Writing and Interview Preparation Workshop at Cape Cod Community College, alongside his colleague Michael McCormack of Richardson-Gaffey Funeral Home. They covered essential topics such as how to prepare for an interview, how to present yourself professionally, and the types of questions candidates can expect from prospective funeral home employers.

Today we had the pleasure of treating the staff of Wampatuck Elementary School Early Childhood Center to lunch in recogn...
05/07/2026

Today we had the pleasure of treating the staff of Wampatuck Elementary School Early Childhood Center to lunch in recognition of Teacher Appreciation Week. Thank you all for everything you do. You guys rock!!

04/11/2026

Happy St. Patrick’s Day (kind of)! As a proud sponsor of the Scituate St. Patrick’s Day parade, we always like to extend an invitation to come park at Richardson-Gaffey Funeral Home so you can walk up to the commons to view the parade.

We only ask one thing: Please don’t park on the grass. You might say to yourself “no parking spaces….oh look some perfectly manicured green grass…let’s park there”. Don’t.

Our landscapers put a lot of love and hard work into making the grounds look perfect (like our funeral directors) through the year and they get very sad when they see tire marks ruining their hard work. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a landscaper cry, it’s very loud because they have the backpack leaf blower on. Have fun and be safe!

Thank you to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Scituate for inviting us to give a presentation on the importance of pre-pla...
03/18/2026

Thank you to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Scituate for inviting us to give a presentation on the importance of pre-planning you or your loved one’s funeral. We had a very informative and lighthearted Q&A session after the presentation. How often do you get to have two funeral directors in a room that you can ask any funeral related question you’ve ever had.

If you ever have any questions about pre-planning (or if you want to ask a funeral director a question you’ve always wanted to the answer to or any thing related to the bruins or three stooges) we would be happy to talk.

03/17/2026

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382 First Parish Road
Scituate, MA
02066

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