Mrs. Kelly graduated from Silver Creek Central High School. She retired from the Chautauqua County Finance Department after several years of employment. Prior to that, she had lived and worked in The Bronx, New York, where, together with her husband, she owned and operated a restaurant known as Jean Ray Pizza for about 10 years.
She was a former member of the Women of the Moose. Mrs. Kelly was an accomplished singer and she enioyed traveling, dining out with her sister and following politics. She was an avid cat lover.
She was the wife of the late Raymond Kelly; daughter of the late Joseph and Mary (Vento) Lombardo; and sister of Frances Porpiglia of Silver Creek and the late Carl Lombardo and Grace Domenico; also survived by several nieces and nephews.
Arrangements were by the Hole-Parker Funeral Chapel Inc., Silver Creek.