HAVERHILL \u2013 Clifford D. Demeritt, 68, of Haverhill passed away on Monday July 29 at the Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital in Boston.<\/p>\n
Clifford was born in Haverhill, he was the son of Clifford E. and Margaret B. (Flammia) Demeritt. Clifford was a graduate of Haverhill Trade School, class of 1973, and then went on to proudly serve in the United States Marine Corps from 1974 until 1976, during which time he was stationed in Washington DC and Camp David for President Ford. He then received his Masters Degree in Criminal Justice from Western New England College and served on the Haverhill Police Department for 38 years. Clifford was an avid hunter and fisherman and enjoyed spending time at his camp in West Newfield, ME. He will be fondly remembered as a devoted father, grandfather, brother and uncle.<\/p>\n
Clifford is survived by his children Ryan Demeritt and his wife Jill Demeritt of Epping, NH, Katelyn Demeritt of Haverhill, and Meghan Flood of Punta Gorda, FL. He also leaves behind his brother Dennis C. Demeritt and his wife Ellen of Haverhill, sister Joy Ann (Demeritt) Ethier and her husband Don of W. Newfield, ME, sister in law Julie Demeritt of Haverhill, and cherished granddaughter Harper Demeritt. Clifford was predeceased by his brother David M. Demeritt.<\/p>\n
ARRANGEMENTS: Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend calling hours on Friday, August 2 from 4PM until 7PM, with Marine Corps Honor Guard presentation at 6PM, at the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home, 486 Main Street, Haverhill. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the Haverhill Police Relief Association, 40 Bailey Blvd, Haverhill, MA 01830 or the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, P.O. Box 849168, Boston, MA 02284-9168. Please visit www.comeaufuneral.com<\/a> or Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HAVERHILL \u2013 Clifford D. Demeritt, 68, of Haverhill passed away on Monday July 29 at the Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital in Boston. Clifford was born in Haverhill, he was the son of Clifford E. and Margaret B. (Flammia) Demeritt. Clifford was a graduate of Haverhill Trade School, class of 1973, and then went on to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4433","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\/4433","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=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6535,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions\/6535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}