{"id":9074,"date":"2018-11-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/raymond-heffernan\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:14:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:14:51","slug":"raymond-heffernan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/raymond-heffernan\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Heffernan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merrimac \u2013 Raymond S. Heffernan, 87, passed away November 25, 2018 at Anna Jacques Hospital in Newburyport.Born December 15, 1930 in Haverhill, he was the son of the late Maurice and Theresa (Shaw) Heffernan. He was raised and educated in the Acre of Haverhill and was a graduate of St. James High School, Class of 1948. He served in the United States Army from 1953 until 1955 and was honorably discharged. Upon returning from the Army he attended Merrimack College, obtaining his degree in 1958. Raymond was employed for many years at the former Western Electric, which became Lucent Technology and he retired in 1993. A man of faith, he put others needs before his own.  He was known as a giving and generous man who will be missed by all who knew and loved him.  His nephews appreciate of all the Boston sporting events he took them to when they were young.Raymond is survived by his sister, Sara Diette of Lowell  his nephews, Mark Diette of Lowell and Patrick Diette of Westborough  his sister in law, Margaret (Tobin) Heffernan of Cinnaminson, NJ  nieces and nephews, Katherine (Heffernan) Parker of Cinnaminson, NJ, Maureen Heffernan of Cinnaminson, NJ, Michael Heffernan of Mt Laurel, NJ, David Heffernan of Mt Laurel, NJ  his grandnephew Jacob Diette and grandniece Jessica Diette, both of Westborough  and several cousins. He was predeceased by his brothers Edward and Alfred Heffernan and his sister Mary Heffernan.Services will begin on Saturday, December 1 at 9:30AM at the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home, 486 Main Street, Haverhill with a Mass of Christian Burial to be celebrated at the Church of Nativity Holy Redeemer Parish, 4 Green Street, Merrimac at 11:00AM. Burial will follow in St. James Cemetery, Primrose Street, Haverhill. Donations may be made in his memory to the St. Vincent DePaul Society, 4 Green Street, Merrimac, MA, 01860. Please visit Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comeaufuneral.com\/\">www.comeaufuneral.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merrimac \u2013 Raymond S. Heffernan, 87, passed away November 25, 2018 at Anna Jacques Hospital in Newburyport.Born December 15, 1930 in Haverhill, he was the son of the late Maurice and Theresa (Shaw) Heffernan. He was raised and educated in the Acre of Haverhill and was a graduate of St. James High School, Class of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9074","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\/9074","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=9074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9388,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074\/revisions\/9388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}