Rita M. (Kearns) Killory, died on May 15 at age 90. Rita was a native of Weymouth, and the only child of Agnes and David Kearns. She attended Weymouth schools and graduated from Bridgewater State Teachers College. After teaching in Weymouth, she became a full-time mother of five. In later years, she continued her involvement in education by serving as a substitute teacher and as the sounding board and trusted adviser for her husband of 63 years, Joseph Killory. After six years living in Teaneck, NJ, and Brockton, MA, where her husband served as superintendent of schools, Rita moved to Sandwich, MA in 1974. During nearly three decades in Sandwich, she devoted much of her life to community service. She devoted many hours to volunteer work in Sandwich at, among others, the Library, the Glass Museum, the Food Pantry, Meals on Wheels, Heritage Nursing Home, and the Nye Family Homestead. She also volunteered for many years in Yarmouthport at the Cape Cod Consignment Shop, to benefit the cancer care unit at Cape Cod Hospital. Prior to her return to Weymouth in 2002, the Sandwich Board of Selectmen honored Rita for her contributions to Sandwich through her many hours of dedicated volunteering and service. Along with her devotion to family and friends, she was a passionate and steadfast Red Sox fan after an early introduction to baseball by her father who played on the Weymouth Town League team in the early 20th century. Rita loved history, and researched and prepared detailed family trees that traced her family and that of her husband back many generations to their roots in Ireland. She also wrote historical narratives of her maternal grandfather's role as a Union soldier at Gettysburg and other battles in the Civil War, as well as of her own life experiences and observations from her early childhood years through which she hoped that her children and grandchildren might gain insight into living through the Great Depression of the 1930s and World War II. For the last several years, following the death of her husband, Rita resided at Newfield House in Plymouth, where she was visited often by her family and attended by Newfields wonderful, caring staff. Rita is survived by three daughters: Ann, Susan, and Sarah; two sons: David and Ted; twelve grandchildren; and fifteen great-grandchildren A Memorial Service will be held for Rita at 10 a.m. on June 16 at the home of her son David, at 3 Ellisville Drive, Plymouth, MA. Friends of Rita are warmly invited to join her family in celebrating her life.