Haverhill \u2013 John A. Boutin, 73, husband of Roberta A. (Fauth) Boutin, passed away after a short illness at St. Elizabeth\u2019s Hospital in Brighton on February 15, 2021 with his family by his side.<\/p>\n
Born in Chelsea, Ma. He was the son of the late Alfred L. Boutin, Jr. and Annie (Kelley) Boutin. Raised and educated in Haverhill, he was a graduate of Haverhill Trade School, Class of 1965. He attended Fitchburg State College. John worked on diesel and heavy equipment for most of his life and retired as the mobile equipment manager of US and Canada for Covanta Energy. He taught at Whittier Tech in the Diesel Mechanic Shop. John served his community on the volunteer Groveland Fire Department. He was known as a hardworking man in his trade and at home. He built his own log cabin in Groveland. John enjoyed day trips all over New England, especially Cape Cod with his family. He coached Pentucket youth football for a few seasons. John will be remembered as a devoted family man, a good husband, father and grandfather who\u2019s greatest accomplishment was his family and will be missed by all who knew and loved him.<\/p>\n
John is survived by his loving wife Roberta A. (Fauth) Boutin of Haverhill; their son Jon A. Boutin and his partner Cheri Gibbons of Merrimac, Ma; brother Alfred Boutin, Jr. and sister Kathy Boutin, both of\u00a0Salem, NH; his beloved grandchildren Jenna Boutin, Austin Bernard and Katie Gibbons; and great grandson Riley Gibbons. He also survived by his loving father and mother-in-law Ronald and Janet Fauth of Groveland, Ma.<\/p>\n
Funeral services will be private. Arrangements are by the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home,\u00a0486 Main Street, Haverhill. In lieu of flowers donations may be made in his memory to MSPCA at Nevins Farm, 400 Broadway, Methuen, MA 01844. Please visit Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook or\u00a0www.comeaufuneral.com<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Haverhill \u2013 John A. Boutin, 73, husband of Roberta A. (Fauth) Boutin, passed away after a short illness at St. Elizabeth\u2019s Hospital in Brighton on February 15, 2021 with his family by his side. Born in Chelsea, Ma. He was the son of the late Alfred L. Boutin, Jr. and Annie (Kelley) Boutin. Raised and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2598","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\/2598","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=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}