Bradford \u2013 Raymond L. Melanson, 92, husband of Ursula (Bodoni) Melanson passed away October 4, 2020 at Maplewood Nursing and Rehab in Amesbury.<\/p>\n
Born in Peabody, he was the son of the late Ellsworth and Elizabeth (Bayne) Melanson. He was raised and educated in Salem, graduating from Salem High School, Class of 1946. Raymond received his Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Teaching from Fitchburg State. Raymond lived in Salem before moving to Bradford in 1976 and lived there until his passing. Prior to teaching, Raymond was a construction worker for 15 years. He was a most beloved teacher at Whittier Vocational School in carpentry for many years and at Haverhill Trade School. Raymond taught many of the local building inspectors their trade in that program. He also was well known at the Night School Director, teaching the Contractors Class. A well versed handyman, many would call and ask his expertise on their own projects. Raymond was a member of the Knights of Columbus since 1950, serving as Past Grand Knight of Knights of Columbus Veragua Council No. 76 (Salem, MA). Known to be a teaser in all matters, Raymond was a devoted husband, father and grandfather who will be missed by all who knew and loved him.<\/p>\n
In addition to his loving wife Ursula, he is survived by his daughters, Diane Melanson of San Francisco, CA and Elyse Hood of Norfolk, VA; brother, Richard Melanson of Long Beach, CA; sister, Ruth D\u2019Entremont and her husband Robert of Danvers; and his granddaughter, Sarah Aaronian and her husband Michael of Billerica; and several nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n
Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend calling hours on Friday, October 9 from 4:00PM until 7:00PM at the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home, 486 Main Street, Haverhill. A Graveside service will be on Saturday morning, 11:00AM in St. Mary Cemetery, North Street, Salem. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Jude\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105. \u00a0Please visit Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook or www.comeaufuneral.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bradford \u2013 Raymond L. Melanson, 92, husband of Ursula (Bodoni) Melanson passed away October 4, 2020 at Maplewood Nursing and Rehab in Amesbury. Born in Peabody, he was the son of the late Ellsworth and Elizabeth (Bayne) Melanson. He was raised and educated in Salem, graduating from Salem High School, Class of 1946. Raymond received […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2376","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\/2376","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=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}