Robert F. Kirk

Robert F. Kirk, 84, of Santa Barbara, Calif., died May 30 in Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.

For 33 years, he was a reporter and later wire editor for the company that owned the former Evening Gazette and its successor, combined newspaper, the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester, Mass. He retired in 1994.

Kirk leaves his wife, Maureen; three sons, Robert Jr., Richard and John; a daughter, Anne.

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.