Robert E. Kelly, a retired Social Security Administration analyst and World War II veteran, died of cancer Feb. 28 at his Baynesville home. He was 89.

Mr. Kelly was born and raised in Oswego, N.Y., and earned a bachelor's degree in 1939 from Oswego State Teachers College, now the State University of New York at Oswego.

He enlisted in the Navy in 1941 and served as a radio officer aboard naval vessels in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters.

"He was on duty aboard a ship in the Pacific when the news came that Pearl Harbor had been bombed. He often spoke of his trip to the captain's cabin to inform him that war had begun," said a daughter, Colleen R. Kelly of Sykesville.

After being discharged at war's end with the rank of lieutenant junior grade, he taught school for a year in Waterloo, N.Y.

In 1946, he went to work for the Veterans Administration in Oswego. He moved to Baltimore in 1959 when he took a job with the SSA. At the time of his 1975 retirement, he was a management analyst.

For the past 49 years, Mr. Kelly lived on Lackawanna Avenue in Baynesville. He had been president of the Cromwood Community Association and was an avid tenpin bowler.

"He did not give up bowling until a few weeks before his death," Ms. Kelly said.

Mr. Kelly also was an accomplished baker and made "a mean Irish soda bread," his daughter said.

He was a longtime active communicant of Immaculate Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church in Baynesville, where he had been a past officer of the Holy Name Society and where a funeral Mass was offered Monday.

Also surviving are his wife of 57 years, the former Corrine Molinari: four other daughters, Mary K. Somers of Aberdeen, Theresa J. Fifer, Anne M. Kelly and Kathleen P. Dembeck, all of Towson; a sister, Sister Rose Eileen Kelly, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Corondelet, of Albany, N.Y.; and 13 grandchildren.

Frederick N. Rasmussen