Haverhill \u2013 Shirley M. (Downing) Sweeney, 88, wife of the late Albert P. Sweeney, passed away December 31, 2019 at Lawrence General Hospital with her loving family by her side.<\/p>\n
Born in Haverhill, she was the daughter of the late Walter I. and Bertha M. (Gage) Downing. Raised and educated in the Haverhill School system, she was a foreman of the stock room at the former Western Electric and retired from Lucent Technologies in 1991. Shirley loved to travel and enjoyed cruising on the QE II as well as trips to Aruba and Hawaii. Loved all of her game shows too.<\/p>\n
Known for her quick wit and loving personality, she was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother who will be missed by all who knew and loved her.<\/p>\n
Shirley is survived by her children, Michael Sweeney and his wife Patricia of No. Carolina; Norman J. Sweeney and his fianc\u00e9` Lori Myotte of Haverhill; Richard Sweeney and his wife Donna of Raymond, NH; Brian Sweeney \u00a0and Lisa Alder of Bradford; her Sister \u00a0Lillian of N. Carolina; her friend and partner for 22 years, Kenneth Etter of Bradford; and cousins, Maurice and Maureen Caddotette of Atkinson, NH. She was predeceased by her sons, Dennis A. and Kevin J. Sweeney.<\/p>\n
Funeral services will be private. Arrangements are by the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home, 486 Main Street, Haverhill. Please visit Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook or www.comeaufuneral.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Haverhill \u2013 Shirley M. (Downing) Sweeney, 88, wife of the late Albert P. Sweeney, passed away December 31, 2019 at Lawrence General Hospital with her loving family by her side. Born in Haverhill, she was the daughter of the late Walter I. and Bertha M. (Gage) Downing. Raised and educated in the Haverhill School system, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","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\/1747","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=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}