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Article: Leo Richards Jr., 60

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August 19, 1998
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Leo F. Richards Jr., a tax preparer for H & R Block Co. who was president and coach of Needham-Wellesley Junior Pop Warner Football, died Monday, apparently of a heart attack, in Deaconess Glover Hospital in Needham. He was 60.

Mr. Richards was born in Dorchester. He served in the Marine Corps from 1955 to 1959, in the Army from 1962 to 1965, and was a member of the California National Guard from 1965 to 1968.

A former cook and salesman, he was a tax preparer for H & ...

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