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On Mark Leon’s Passing
By Centinel | May 9, 2008
Aaron Proctor has a news/obit piece on Mark Leon in the PW:
Former City Council candidate and city Planning and Transportation Commission member Mark A. Leon died Friday due to complications from a liver condition stemming from a transplant he had undergone some years ago. He was 47.
Leon, who leaves behind a wife, two sons and a daughter, was perhaps best known for running a spirited underdog campaign against a handful of candidates for the Pasadena City Council’s vacant District 1 seat in March 2007, now occupied by Councilwoman Jacque Robinson.
More here.
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May 9th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Kudos to Aaron for writing a beautiful obit. My only criticism is the shameless plug for his website. It’s reminiscent of a certain other obituary that ran in PSN that was pretty good then it peeled away from the squadron with comments about bloggers.
Obits are sacred turf. Go Proc.
May 9th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
I never met Mark Leon, but he was on a zoning and review committee that I spoke before and I was impressed by his intelligence and kindness. He died far too young. And his death leaves a void because most of his fellow committee members were self-serving twits.
May 10th, 2008 at 6:04 am
They told me to plug my website. I didn’t want to. I didn’t think it was super appropriate.
May 10th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
They are FIRED for telling you to do so, AP.
Just because someone looks like they are homeless and living out of a suitcase doesn’t mean they aren’t possibly one, if not the person who is running the rest of the world.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Huh?