Adriana O’Sullivan

Adriana O’Sullivan passed away on October 18, 2024. Adriana joined the Sharon Garden Club in 1992 and became a life member in 2023. She was president of the Club 2006‐2008.

Adriana served on countless Garden Club committees and was quick to offer her help, support and sense of humor. A Master gardener as well as a talented and prolific designer, Adriana’s designs continue to beatify our town of Sharon. Her legacy of garden designs include:

o The garden in front of Angels’Café in the center of town.
o The garden at the gazebo by Lake Massapaog on Beech street.
o The garden at the side entrance to the Community Center.
o The garden in front of the Deborah Sampson statue at theTownLibrary.
o The garden in front of the fire station.
o The gardens in front of Our Lady of Sorrows and along the side of O’ Connell Hall.

o The gardens at the WWII Memorial and the Blue Star Memorial at the Town Hall.

o The garden at the Sharon Train Station.

Originally from the Netherlands, Adriana was an accomplished artist in her early years, and her works in pottery were displayed in the Rijks Museum, Amsterdam and are part of its permanent collection.

Adriana had an extensive knowledge of plants and a passion for sharing her information. You can watch the video of her presentation to the Garden Club of Norfolk entitled “30 Plants That Pay the Rent” by Adriana O’ Sullivan by looking under “Educational Activities”, and clicking on “Gardening Information” on this website. The handout from her lecture is also on these pages. It’s a beautiful way to remember Adriana the next time you’re deciding on that new addition to your garden!

Mary O’Dwyer

Mary O'Dwyer, age 80, of North Easton, MA, formerly of Sharon, passed away on June 2, 2025. Originally from Buffalo NY, Mary got her nursing degree in 1966, and worked in ERs in Buffalo, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and even volunteered on a mission to deliver babies near Zimbabwe. 

Mary became a pilot; learned midwifery; worked in ORs in many Boston hospitals and settled in Sharon to raise her two children, Rory and Kevin. 

Gardening was one of Mary’s passions. She spent long hours creating an edenic, terraced garden with a wide diversity of plants at her home in Sharon, and then again in North Easton, where she moved in 2020. Mary was a longtime member of the Sharon Garden Club and put her gardening skills to work at Our Lady of Sorrows Church, volunteering many hours to lovingly maintain the grounds. 

In her retirement, Mary was committed to volunteer work – helping at local food pantries and soup kitchens, driving cancer patients to appointments, and fostering feral cats. She went on medical mission trips to Ecuador and the Dominican Republic to repair children's cleft lips and palates. Mary worked with the Sharon Health Department. 

One of Mary's retirement accomplishments included helping to grow Langwater Farm in Easton. She contributed so much to its growth and success, supporting the business in many ways, but most importantly helping raise her three cherished grandchildren so their parents could focus on growing the business. Her oldest granddaughter, Maddie, renamed her “Gogo”, a moniker quickly adopted by all her friends and family. Mary was always on the go!

(Text adapted from Mary’s Obituary on Kane FH website.)