HAVERHILL \u2013 Sheila A. Callahan, 85, passed away on Thursday, June 20 at Avita of Newburyport.<\/p>\n
Sheila was born in Haverhill the daughter of Harold and Margaret (Callery) Callahan. She was a graduate of St. James High School, Class of 1957 and then went to attend Northeastern University and eventually receiving her Master Degree from Lesley College. Sheila worked for many years in the medical field in administration and management at Tufts University, Choate-Symmes Health Systems, Inc. and Lowell Hospital. She was very involved in the City of Haverhill, chairing many social programs at the request of the mayor, and was active in organizations such as the mayors Council for Community Affairs and the League of Women\u2019s Voters, and the American Health Information Association, and was a past president of the MaHIMA – Massachusetts Health Information Association. Sheila will be well remembered by all for her tireless local service; she is survived by her many cousins, extended family and her friends and community.<\/p>\n
ARRANGEMENTS: Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend calling hours on Tuesday, June 25 from 4PM until 7PM at the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home, 486 Main Street, Haverhill. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Wednesday, June 26 at 10AM at St. James Church, 185 Winter Street, and burial to follow at St. James Cemetery, 360 Primrose Street, Haverhill. Memorial donations may be made in her name to Liz Murphy Food Pantry of St. James Parish, 185 Winter Street, Haverhill, MA 01830. Please visit\u00a0www.comeaufuneral.com<\/a>\u00a0of Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HAVERHILL \u2013 Sheila A. Callahan, 85, passed away on Thursday, June 20 at Avita of Newburyport. Sheila was born in Haverhill the daughter of Harold and Margaret (Callery) Callahan. She was a graduate of St. James High School, Class of 1957 and then went to attend Northeastern University and eventually receiving her Master Degree from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4395","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\/4395","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=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6549,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions\/6549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}