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- Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA)
February 27, 1994
Leland H. Procter, 79, of 1 South Road, a composer and music instructor, died last Sunday at home.
He taught for many years at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and previously taught in schools in Oklahoma.
His most well-known composition, entitled Symphony No. 1, was played nationally.
He also authored two books, one on the subject of musical counterpoint, and "John Procter of Ipswich and Some of his Descendants," a genealogical history of the Procter family of Salem-Essex, which counts among its ancestors John Procter, who was persecuted in the Salem witch trials.
He was born in Boston and was educated in Pleasantville, N.Y. He was graduated from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, N.Y. He also received a fellowship to Harvard University, where he studied philosophy.
During World War II, he worked as an aeronautical draftsman.
He lived in Longmeadow for several years and was employed at the former American Bosch in Springfield before moving to Dedham. He lived in Hampden for the past 25 years.
He was a member of ASCAP and the American Composers Alliance and professionally played the tuba.
He leaves his wife, the former Deborah Chace; a son, John L. of Dedham; a daughter, Carol Ann Procter of Brookline; two stepsons, Jonathan C. Guest of Walpole and Robert G. Guest III of Haverhill; a stepdaughter, Eliza Dame of North Quincy; and two grandchildren.
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1914 - 1994 (80 years)
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