{"id":1511,"date":"2019-08-07T18:27:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T18:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2019-08-07T18:27:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T18:27:34","slug":"wayne-l-puka-simpson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wayne-l-puka-simpson\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne L. &#8220;Puka&#8221; Simpson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haverhill \u2013 Wayne L. \u201cPuka\u201d Simpson Jr.46, passed away August 5, 2019 at Holy Family Hospital, Haverhill with his loving family by his side.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Haverhill, he was the son of Wayne and Eileen (Beaupre) Simpson of Haverhill. Raised and educated in the Haverhill school system, he attended Whittier Tech. Wayne was employed as a commercial tire maintenance specialist for many years, working all over the New England area and while living in Hawaii. He also was an independent moving contractor. In 1993 he moved with his family to Hawaii, where he lived until moving back to Haverhill in 1998. Wayne enjoyed camping in the White Mountains with his family and loved nothing more than to sit around a good campfire. He was always helping people and loved spending time with his family, especially holidays. Wayne was a devoted father who will be missed by all who knew and loved him.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his loving parents, Wayne is survived by his children, Mashayla Simpson and Jacob Simpson, both of Haverhill; his sister, Lori Simonds and her husband Brendon of Haverhill; his brothers, William Simpson of Haverhill and Marc Simpson of Atkinson, NH; his former wife, Allison (Cunningham) Simpson; and several nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend calling hours on Friday, August 9 from 4:00PM until 7:00PM at the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home, 486 Main Street Haverhill. Funeral services will be in the funeral home on Saturday at 11:30AM. Burial will be private. Please visit Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook or www.comeaufuneral.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haverhill \u2013 Wayne L. \u201cPuka\u201d Simpson Jr.46, passed away August 5, 2019 at Holy Family Hospital, Haverhill with his loving family by his side. Born in Haverhill, he was the son of Wayne and Eileen (Beaupre) Simpson of Haverhill. Raised and educated in the Haverhill school system, he attended Whittier Tech. Wayne was employed as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ma","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}