Glen E. MacLeod

NEWBURYPORT — Glen E. MacLeod, 46, of Newburyport, formerly of Melrose and Belmont, died on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008 at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.

Born in Melrose on May 1, 1961, Mr. MacLeod was raised in both Melrose and Belmont and was a graduate of Salem State College where he earned his Master's degree.

Following a lifelong calling, he worked as a clinical social worker at Health and Educational Services of Haverhill.

Mr. MacLeod was a gifted singer/songwriter and guitarist and a member of two bands, Slow Children and Boys Say Go. He later went on to form and record with his own bands — The Moores, Young Guns, and Vindicators — that were part of the garage band scene in Boston in the 1980s.

Mr. MacLeod was the husband of Josephine Finocchiaro; father of Shannon Grace and Dylan Patrick MacLeod of Milton; son of Geraldine M. Quinzio of Boston and Donald MacLeod of Winthrop (formerly of Melrose); brother of Daniel MacLeod of Montreal and Douglas MacLeod and his wife Lola of Littleton; step-son of Daniel Coleman of Boston and Eva MacLeod of Winthrop; nephew of Jacqueline and Parviz Amirhor of Acton, Jeanne and James Hupprich of Vineyard Haven, Bonnie Scalzi and Bob Hormel of Reading, Dorothy MacLeod of Melrose; grandnephew of Jean Quinzio and Pansy Manzella, both of Wakefield.

ARRANGEMENTS: A funeral service will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 326 Main St., Wakefield on Tuesday at 10 a.m. Relatives and friends may call at the McDonald Funeral Home, 19 Yale Ave., Wakefield on Monday, 4 to 8 p.m. Interment will be at Forest Glade Cemetery in Wakefield. Memorial contributions may be made to The Klarman Center, McLean Hospital, 115 Mill St., Belmont, MA 02478, Attention: Program Director.