Leonard J. Kelley, 79, of South Lancaster, Mass., died July 29 in the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass.
Kelley was a newspaper editor for more than 30 years at several newspapers, including the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester, The Daily Item of Clinton, Mass., The New York Times, and The Boston Globe. He retired from the Globe.
He leaves his wife, Patricia; three sons, Thomas, Brian and Lawrence; two daughters, Margot and Regina; eight grandchildren; a brother; three sisters.
The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondent Nimra Aziz, an undergraduate student in the Northeastern University School of Journalism.