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Charles McCafferty Sr. | Dealership president, 92

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Charles F. "Bud" McCafferty Sr., 92, of Blue Bell, former president of McCafferty Ford in Langhorne, died of pneumonia Thursday at Sacred Heart Hospital in Norristown.

Mr. McCafferty graduated from North Catholic High School in Philadelphia and attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. During World War II he served in the Merchant Marine.

After his discharge, he worked for John B. White Ford in Philadelphia. In 1954 he established a Ford dealership in Langhorne with two partners and later opened a dealership in Trenton. He was a wonderful salesman and an excellent financial manager, his son Michael said. He nurtured long-term relationships with customers, picking up their vehicles for servicing and then returning them. He loved cars, his son said, and owned Jaguars, Thunderbirds and Panteras over the years.

Mr. McCafferty enjoyed boating on the Chesapeake and visiting the birthplace of his ancestors near Doon Well, a religious site in County Donegal, Ireland.

He and his wife, Verna Meier McCafferty, raised six children in Glenside. They married on April Fool's Day in 1940 after eloping to Virginia. She died in 2004.

In addition to his son, Mr. McCafferty is survived by sons Charles Jr. and James; daughters Verna Walters, Kathleen Bean, and Eileen Koolpe; 15 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

A Funeral Mass will be said at 11 a.m. Monday at Our Lady of Grace Church, 225 Bellevue Ave., Penndale. Friends may call at 10 a.m. Burial will be in Our Lady of Grace Cemetery, Langhorne.