Arthur D. Sutcliffe was born and raised in Lowell. He is a graduate of Saint Peter's Grammar School and Lowell High School Class of 1970. Arthur served as an apprentice in Funeral Service since 1980. He attended New England Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences in Boston, graduating top of his class in 1986. Arthur became a fully licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer in the fall of 1986. He then worked for Saunders Funeral Home on Westford St. in Lowell, a firm serving families of Greater Lowell since 1900. Arthur purchased the business in 1989 and renamed it the Saunders-Sutcliffe Funeral Home.

In the spring of 2001 the Saunders-Sutcliffe Funeral Home was closed as the number of families served had not grown enough to sustain increasing costs of remaining at that location. Arthur then associated himself with the Mahoney Funeral Home in Lowell, bringing with him his years of experience and complete records from the former Funeral Home.

Arthur is a member of the National and Massachusetts Funeral Directors Associations, a member and past president of the Greater Lowell Kiwanis Club, a member and Past Chairman of the Salvation Army Advisory Board, a member of the Lowell Festival Foundation, and a member of the East End Club.

Arthur is pleased and proud to join the Mahoney Funeral Home along with the firm's president John J. McNamee Jr. in serving with integrity and honesty the families that entrust their loved ones to us. Arthur and John welcome those families served at the former Saunders-Sutcliffe Funeral Home to this new location and promise to serve them in the caring manner as they received in the past.