My brother Jeff has begun a new blog about the elementary school he attended in East Orange, New Jersey, during the late 1950s: Stockton School. I'm enjoying seeing the photos and reading his postings about some of the people whom he went to school with or who taught there.
One of his more recent postings mentioned an occasion where he met the mayor of East Orange, James W. Kelly, Jr. What baffles him (and me) is that we can't find anything about Kelly after he left office in 1970. I plan to keep searching, but unless Kelly is still alive somewhere (living off the grid in a retirement community?), I find it hard to believe that I can't find any record of his death. Unfortunately, "James Kelly" is such a common name that I can't say for certain that one of the ones in the Social Security Death Index isn't him.
If someone out there happens to know something about what happened to Mayor Kelly after 1970, I'm sure that Jeff and I would love to hear about it.
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