Eileen A. (Gingras) Tougas, 74, of Heath, Mass., died July 10 in Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield, Mass.

She was editor at the Heath Herald.

She also was a former selectman in Heath.

Tougas leaves a son, Daniel; a daughter, Sandra; a granddaughter, Clarissa; a grandson, Nick; a sister.

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.