HAVERILL \u2013 John C. \u201cJack\u201d DelBene, a lifelong resident of Haverhill, died Friday, March 31 at Holy Family Hospital in Methuen, surrounded by his loving family.<\/p>\n
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Born in Haverhill, he was the son of the late Silvio and Eleanor (Garavanta) DelBene in Haverhill. He was educated in Haverhill schools and graduated from Haverhill High School in 1966.\u00a0 Jack ran Del\u2019s Auto on River St. for 43 years, which was founded by his father, Silvio, over 80 years ago. He liked to spend summers at Belgrade Lakes in Maine where he enjoyed fishing. Jack was a loving brother, uncle and friend.<\/p>\n
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Jack is survived by a sister and brother in law Patricia M. and Robert Joncas, Bradford, lifelong friend Shawn Fernald; and many nieces and nephews, Tammy Joncas, Todd and wife Marina Pacheco Joncas, Ann Marie and Pete D\u2019Agostino, Robert Howes and wife, Linda, Kevin Howes and wife, Joan, Rhonda Carr, Deborah Champey, Lisa Ivanovitch, Christina Andrade, and great nieces and nephews. Jack was<\/p>\n
predeceased by sisters Elizabeth \u201cBetty Ann\u201d Howes and Joanne Champey, and niece Kathy Joseph.<\/p>\n
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Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend calling hours on Tuesday April 4 from 5PM until 7PM at the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home 486 Main Street, Haverhill. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Wednesday April 5 at 10:00 AM at St. James Church, Winter St. Haverhill. Burial will follow at St. James Cemetery Primrose St. Haverhill. Please visit Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook or www.comeaufuneral.com<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HAVERILL \u2013 John C. \u201cJack\u201d DelBene, a lifelong resident of Haverhill, died Friday, March 31 at Holy Family Hospital in Methuen, surrounded by his loving family. Born in Haverhill, he was the son of the late Silvio and Eleanor (Garavanta) DelBene in Haverhill. He was educated in Haverhill schools and graduated from Haverhill High […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,47,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ma","category-nh","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783","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=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}