{"id":8543,"date":"2017-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/john-delaney-jr\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:16:35","slug":"john-delaney-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/john-delaney-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"John Delaney, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgetown-John F. \u201cJack\u201d Delaney, Jr., 83, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family on Tuesday, April 18, 2017.Jack was born in Quincy to the late John &#038;amp  Alice (Shaw) Delaney.  He attended local schools and graduated from Quincy High School, Class of 1951. Jack enlisted to proudly serve our nation in the United States Navy and was assigned to the USS Knapp as a Sonarman Petty Officer 3rd Class during the Korean Conflict.  He returned home safely and worked for Northeast Airlines, before joining Hotwatt Inc., from where he ultimately retired as the sales manager after 45 years.  Jack and his wife Mariam raised their family in Danvers and later lived in Topsfield.  He served as a longtime member of the Kiwanis Club, American Legion, and coached youth baseball and was a friend of Bill W.   Jack was an automobile and airplane enthusiast.  He was a man of great faith, devoted husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, uncle and friend.Jack is survived by his beloved wife of 61 years, Mariam (Racine) Delaney  their three sons &#038;amp  spouses, Tim Delaney &#038;amp  Janet of Newport, VT  Christopher Delaney &#038;amp  Shirley of Largo, FL  and Jeffrey Delaney &#038;amp  Martha of Salem  and niece Janna &#038;amp  Harry Noyes of Danvers, MA. He leaves two siblings, Raymond Delaney &#038;amp  wife Shirley  and Doris Halpin, all of Hingham  4 grandchildren &#038;amp  their spouses, Lindsay Barr Weekes &#038;amp  Jaunel of Bradford  Matthew Bowman &#038;amp  Shannon of Coventry, VT  Jake Delaney &#038;amp  Kristen of North Andover  and Erin Delaney of Salem  5 great-grandchildren, Tripp Delaney, Robby, Madison, Sadie, and McKenzie Bowman  several nieces, nephews, and many dear friends.  He is pre-deceased by his great-grandson Quinlan Weekes, two sisters, Frances Grey and Mary Slavin.Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend funeral services on Sunday, May 14, 2017 at 1PM at the First Congregational Church of Rowley, 175 Main St.. Rowley, MA 01969.  In lieu of flowers, memorial contribution may be made to the First Congregational Church of Rowley-Mission Committee. Arrangements are by the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home, 486 Main Street, Haverhill. Please visit Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook or www.comeaufuneral.com <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgetown-John F. \u201cJack\u201d Delaney, Jr., 83, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family on Tuesday, April 18, 2017.Jack was born in Quincy to the late John &#038;amp Alice (Shaw) Delaney. He attended local schools and graduated from Quincy High School, Class of 1951. Jack enlisted to proudly serve our nation in the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8543","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\/8543","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9623,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions\/9623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}