Salem, NH \u2013 William J. Ferrick, Jr., 88, husband of Nancy J. (Lennon) Ferrick, passed away at home on December 31, 2018 surrounded by his loving family.Born in Groveland, he was the son of the late William J. Ferrick, Sr. and Mary (Lever) Ferrick. Raised and educated in Groveland, he was a graduate of Groveland High School. After graduation he enlisted in the United States Navy and served his country honorably during the Korean War. He was employed by Northern New England Coca Cola where he retired as a District Manager. William was a 55 year member of the Haverhill Lodge of Elks, #165, serving as Exalted Ruler in 1975. He served 15 years as a Lodge Trustee and was awarded an Honorary Life Membership for outstanding service. William was also very active in the Massachusetts State Elks Association where he served as State Trustee and State Chaplain. He was a District Deputy and District Leader of the Massachusetts North District. He was named State Elk of the year in 2005 for his outstanding service. William was State Director of the Elks National Hoop Shoot for 35 years, his favorite program.In addition to his loving wife Nancy, he is survived by three sons, James Ferrick, Daniel Ferrick and David Ferrick and his wife Anna his brother Richard Ferrick and his wife Patricia brother in law Coleman Lee four grandchildren four great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his son Joseph W. Ferrick, daughters in law Deborah Ferrick and Sally Ferrick, brothers Edward M. Ferrick, John F. Ferrick and sister Mary M. Lee.Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend calling hours on Monday, January 7 from 10:00AM until 12:00 Noon at the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home, 486 Main Street, Haverhill. Funeral services will be in the funeral home at 12:00Noon. Burial will follow in St. Patrick\u2019s Cemetery, North Broadway, Haverhill. Donations may be made in his memory to Massachusetts Sate Elks Scholarship Program, 63 Bay State Road, Lynnfield, MA 01940. Please visit Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook or www.comeaufuneral.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Salem, NH \u2013 William J. Ferrick, Jr., 88, husband of Nancy J. (Lennon) Ferrick, passed away at home on December 31, 2018 surrounded by his loving family.Born in Groveland, he was the son of the late William J. Ferrick, Sr. and Mary (Lever) Ferrick. Raised and educated in Groveland, he was a graduate of Groveland […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9114","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\/9114","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=9114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9364,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114\/revisions\/9364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}