Methuen – Richard D. \u201cDick\u201d Kearns, 84, passed away on October 2, 2025 at his home in Methuen.<\/p>\n
Dick was born in Medford; he was the son of William John and Sara Fern (Douglas) Kearns and was a graduate of Gamaliel Bradford Senior High School, Class of 1959. He then went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree from Providence College and worked for many years as a facilities manager for Raytheon Corp. Dick loved and lived on his boat \u201cShamrock\u201d for many years. He enjoyed reading, history, golfing, tennis, and skiing. He was known for his love of travel, photography, and corny jokes. He will be remembered as a devoted father, grandfather and uncle and will be dearly missed by those he leaves behind.<\/p>\n
Dick is survived by his three daughters Karen Davis of Almont, CO, Linda Wells of Haverhill, and Gail Canada and her husband Casey of Belgrade, MT; grandchildren; Courtney Gemmill and her husband Kyle, of Greenville, NC, Garrett Wells of Sandown, NH, Jacob Davis and his wife Courtney of \u00a0Ladson, SC, and Zachary Davis and his wife Heather of Claremont, NH, and; sister in law Monica Kearns, MD; and his two nieces and two nephews.<\/p>\n
He was predeceased by parents his William John and Sara Fern (Douglas) Kearns, and his brother William Kearns.<\/p>\n
In lieu of flowers make donations to MGH cancer research at Mass General Hospital, Attn: Meghan Gibbons Dr. Soumerai Lymphoma research. 125 Nashua St. suite 540, Boston, MA 02114<\/p>\n
Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend calling hours on Wednesday, October 8th<\/sup> from 4PM until 7PM at the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home, 486 Main Street. \u00a0A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10AM on Thursday, October 9th at Sacred Hearts Parish, South Main St. Bradford. Burial to follow at Elmwood Cemetery, Salem Street, Bradford. Please visit www.comeaufuneral.com<\/a> or Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Methuen – Richard D. \u201cDick\u201d Kearns, 84, passed away on October 2, 2025 at his home in Methuen. Dick was born in Medford; he was the son of William John and Sara Fern (Douglas) Kearns and was a graduate of Gamaliel Bradford Senior High School, Class of 1959. He then went on to earn a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,45,49,47,43,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ct","category-ma","category-me","category-nh","category-obituaries","category-ri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995","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=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6303,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions\/6303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}