Ed Kelleher, a resident of North Chesterfield County who died at age 79 after a long battle with cancer, had a calming, reassuring effect on everyone who worked with him in his 32 years as a daily newspaper editor and reporter in Richmond, Virginia. Colleagues and friends remember a man who had an uncanny ability to focus on what mattered most at the moment, while never losing sight of everything else he had to do in the intense, deadline-driven world of a daily newspaper.
