John F. Buckley Jr., 97, of Bristol, R.I., formerly of West Roxbury, Mass., died Oct. 28 in Rhode Island Veterans Home in Bristol.
He was a cartoonist for The Pilot, the newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.
He also was an award-winning correspondent and feature writer for the New England Gas and Electric Association News.
He leaves a daughter, Carol; a grandson, Jamey; a sister.
The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondents Ashleane Alabre, Sophie Cannon, Jenna Ciccotelli, Nico Hall, Joshua Leaston, Georgeanne Oliver, Julia Preszler and Thomas Ward, undergraduate students at Northeastern University.