{"id":8954,"date":"2017-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/peter-gaff\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:16:27","slug":"peter-gaff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/peter-gaff\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Gaff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haverhill \u2013 Peter M. Gaff, Sr., 80, husband of the late Kitty F. (Nault) Gaff, passed away October 31, 2017 at Lawrence General Hospital with his loving family by his side.Born in Lynn, he was the son of the late Charles A. and Mary B. (Corbin) Gaff. Raised and educated in Lynn, he attended Lynn Public Schools. Peter was baptized at the St. Rose of Lima Church in Chelsea on January 3, 1937. At the age of 18 he enlisted in the United States Air Force and served his country honorably during the Korean War. He was a versatile man, working many professions over the years. Peter was a plumber, a truck driver for National Freight, an employee at Borden Chemical in North Andover and a night watchman at Canobie Lake Park until his retirement. He was a member of the Moose Lodge in Chelsea. He will be remembered as a devoted husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. Peter is survived by his children, Glenn R. Gaff  Scott Gaffand his wife Jennifer  Deborah A. Gaff  Donna M. Poissant and her husband Richard  Bonnie M. Fritschy and her husband Kevin  Kimberly AnnePayan and her husband Leskuin  his siblings, Robert Gaff  Bernham Gaff and his wife Sharon  Donna Whitney and her husband Thomas  sister in law, Winifred Nault  many grandchildren and great grandchildren  and several nieces and nephews. In addition to his wife he was predeceased by his son Peter M. Gaff, Jr., brother Vincent Gaff, sister Lois Rosetti and sister in law Anita Gaff. Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend calling hours on Monday, November 6 from 10:00AM until 12:00PM at the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home, 486 Main Street, Haverhill. Funeral services will be in the funeral home at 12:00PM. Burial will follow in Atkinson Cemetery, Main Street, Atkinson, NH. Please visit Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook or www.comeaufuneral.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haverhill \u2013 Peter M. Gaff, Sr., 80, husband of the late Kitty F. (Nault) Gaff, passed away October 31, 2017 at Lawrence General Hospital with his loving family by his side.Born in Lynn, he was the son of the late Charles A. and Mary B. (Corbin) Gaff. Raised and educated in Lynn, he attended Lynn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8954","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\/8954","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=8954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9551,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions\/9551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}