Steve Szkotak

Steve Szkotak, 65, of Richmond, Va., died May 31 in his home.

He was an editor for 13 years at the Daily Hampshire Gazette of Northampton, Mass. Previously, he was a reporter for a decade with the United Press International in New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

In 2002, Szkotak became a journalist with The Associated Press.

Szkotak leaves his wife, Mandy; a daughter, Molly; a son, Frederick; a brother; two sisters.

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.