HAVERHILL \u2013Robert A. \u201cBob\u201d McConihe, 89, of Haverhill, formerly from Waltham and Watertown passed away on Thursday, May 9 at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.<\/p>\n
Born in Waltham, MA the son of then late Lewis and Sarah (O\u2019Reilley) McConihe, he was educated in the Waltham and Watertown Public Schools. He served his country during the Korean Conflict, from 1952 \u2013 1957. He was honorably discharged from the National Guard and the Regular Army, 515th<\/sup> Military Police Company. He was a life member of the Amvets Post 47.\u00a0 Following his military service he was employed for 36 years at Raytheon Co. in Shawsheen and Andover. He started his career as a testman and work for over 20 years as a senior statistical quality engineer for the Patriot Missile system. Bob enjoyed fishing and gardening, along with spending time at Hampton Beach and vacationing in Aruba.\u00a0 He also enjoyed playing softball in both the Amvets and Raytheon leagues.<\/p>\n Bob was a volunteer at the Haverhill Historical Society for years, and a volunteer at HC Media since 2001 where he served as a member of the board of directors.<\/p>\n Bob will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by his wife of 65 years Regina M. (Moncousky) McConihe; a son, Gerard T. McConihe and his wife Lisa; a daughter, Laurie Vafides and a sister, Martha Rice; and his grandchildren: Ryan, Joshua, Jacob and Rachel. He was predeceased by his parents, his sister Patricia A. Olpaka and grandson Sean Robert McConihe.<\/p>\n ARRANGEMENTS: Services are private. Arrangements are under the care of the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home, 486 Main Street, Haverhill. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in his name to St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105. Please visit www.comeaufuneral.com<\/a> or Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HAVERHILL \u2013Robert A. \u201cBob\u201d McConihe, 89, of Haverhill, formerly from Waltham and Watertown passed away on Thursday, May 9 at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. Born in Waltham, MA the son of then late Lewis and Sarah (O\u2019Reilley) McConihe, he was educated in the Waltham and Watertown Public Schools. He served his country during the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315","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=4315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6578,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions\/6578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}