Marianne Sullivan

Marianne Sullivan, 69, of Guilford, Conn., died Sept. 3 at home after a lengthy battle with cancer.

For most of her professional life, Marianne was a reporter and editor for the New Haven (Conn.) Register, and Madison, Conn.-based Shore Publishing Group news publications, including The Source of Madison and The Valley Courier of Essex, Chester, and Deep River, Conn.

She had been a selectman in Guilford.

She leaves four sons, Brian, Barry, Sean and Kenneth; three grandchildren; a sister.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondents Ashleane Alabre, Elizabeth Allen, Nimra Aziz, Alexander Frandsen, Nico Hall and Georgeanne Oliver, undergraduate students at Northeastern University.