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Joseph D. O’Hearn, Jr.
Exeter – Joseph D. O’Hearn, Jr., 83, of Exeter died suddenly Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at the Exeter Hospital.
He was born in Lawrence, MA, the son of the late Joseph D. O’Hearn, Sr. and Irene (McNeilly) O’Hearn Avery. He was born and raised in Lawrence, MA. He attended Lawrence High School and was a graduate of Essex Agricultural & Technical High School in Hathorne, MA. He lived most of his life in Exeter working and retiring from the Bay State Gas Company (Northern Utilities) after 34 years as a natural gas service technician.
He was a devoted husband, father and grandfather. He loved spending time with family and was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed fishing, camping, and hunting. His passion was freshwater bass fishing. Joe also loved and enjoyed his Labrador retrievers.
At the age of seventeen Joe went to work as a lumberjack in northern Aroostook County, Maine in the days before chainsaws and where horses were the skidders. It was there he met his lifelong friends. The lumber camp transformed into a deer hunting camp where Joe traveled to each fall for sixty years to spend a week hunting deer with his buddies in the Great North Woods.
Family members include his wife of 55 years, Alma D. (Berube) O’Hearn and their children, Dennis J. O’Hearn, his wife Deborah (Young) O’Hearn and grandchildren Emily, Erin, Elizabeth, Eli, Ethan, Esther, Evan, and Elise; David A. O’Hearn, his wife Karen (Fletcher) O’Hearn and grandchildren Adam and Shawn; Anne L. (O’Hearn) Balaicuis, and her husband John M. Balaicuis, MD; Mary Ellen (O’Hearn) Buisan, her husband Michael Buisan and grandchildren Melissa and Michael; John A. O’Hearn, his wife Christine (Connor) O’Hearn and grandchildren Patrick, Katlyn, Sophia and Faith.
Close family friend, Barrie Comtois.
Also, nieces Christine (Priebe) Yahner-Divadkar and Laurie Priebe and nephew Henry Priebe.
He was predeceased by his brother, Frank O’Hearn and a sister, Louise (O’Hearn) Priebe.
A Celebration of his Life will be held at the Stockbridge Funeral Home, 141 Epping Road, Exeter, Tuesday, May 28, 2013 at 5 PM. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research or the United Spinal Association. Burial will be private.
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Celebration of Life -
Tuesday, May 28, 20135 pmStockbridge Funeral Home141 Epping RoadExeter, New Hampshire 03833Interment -
Burial will be private.
