Cemetery: Cemetery Office: 245 North Street, Randolph, MA • Robert O'Connor, Cemetery Executive Director • (781) 961-9323 • Saint Mary, a parochial cemetery established in 1845, set on approximately 80 acres, is one of the oldest Catholic Cemeteries in the Archdiocese of Boston. We complete an average of 140 interments each year, and have a total of approximately 20,000 interments. We employ a staff of three full-time, and one seasonal employees. St. Mary’s is operated under the direction of a Cemetery Council, comprised of five lay persons from the Parish. The Pastor of St. Mary Parish serves as Pastor/Director of the Cemetery and Chairperson of the Cemetery Council. Robert O’Connor serves as Executive Director of the Cemetery and Vice-Chairperson of the Cemetery Council. The Council meets several times a year to set policies and review major concerns. The Council, over the past few years, has focused on public awareness of the sacredness of our cemetery space. We have addressed this by developing an informative brochure and Catholic logo. We celebrate a Memorial Day Liturgy on the Cemetery grounds with the theme of Holy Ground. Well over two hundred parishioners & visitors attend this Annual Mass. We have also revised our monument policies to reflect a more Catholic theme with regard to monument inscriptions. One of our new challenges is meeting the changing interment needs of the Catholic Community. We have addressed this challenge by developing a Garden Mausoleum with 320 crypt spaces. We have incorporated the Lawn Crypt interment system, which allows the cemetery to save valuable space and provides a lower cost interment option and the ability to maintain our garden-type cemetery setting. In addition, we have added a Columbarium, which provides interment space and memorialization for 96 cremation urns. Recently we received approval and permission to develop an additional 15 acres of interment space including a bridge to cross the Glovers Brook. This addition should bring us well into the new millennium. Construction began June 1, 2008, and is slated for completion at the end of October, 2008. For more information on our options at St. Mary Cemetery, visit http://www.saintmarycemetery.org.