Dean Wakefield was born on February 17, 1950. He passed away suddenly on February 10, 2004 in a local hospital in San Francisco, California where he had just relocated from his North Hollywood home. Dean was a professional very talented Journalist. He had been the editor of Voices, a weekly Opinion Feature in the Los Angeles Times, launched in 1992, offering perspectives from the city’s multi-cultural communities. He also wrote Book Reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle brilliantly reviewing Manning Marable’s book “Beyond Black & White”. 1998. Then wrote an editorial entitled “Race Matters” Let’s Talk about it for the San Francisco Chronicle. He wrote for the Atlanta Constitution for a short period before returning to San Francisco. His first story for the Los Angeles Times was in 1987 “4 Fireman Hurt as Blaze Guts Anaheim Bank” was considered a brilliant piece of Journalism. Dean was my nephew by marriage whom I met for the first time at my mother’s funeral in 2002. We immediately became friends, he was extremely knowledgeable,well-informed and very intelligent just to sit and talk to him I found to be for me intellectually stimulating. He will be missed.
Dean Wakefield was born on February 17, 1950. He passed away suddenly on February 10, 2004 in a local hospital in San Francisco, California where he had just relocated from his North Hollywood home. Dean was a professional very talented Journalist. He had been the editor of Voices, a weekly Opinion Feature in the Los Angeles Times, launched in 1992, offering perspectives from the city’s multi-cultural communities. He also wrote Book Reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle brilliantly reviewing Manning Marable’s book “Beyond Black & White”. 1998. Then wrote an editorial entitled “Race Matters” Let’s Talk about it for the San Francisco Chronicle. He wrote for the Atlanta Constitution for a short period before returning to San Francisco. His first story for the Los Angeles Times was in 1987 “4 Fireman Hurt as Blaze Guts Anaheim Bank” was considered a brilliant piece of Journalism. Dean was my nephew by marriage whom I met for the first time at my mother’s funeral in 2002. We immediately became friends, he was extremely knowledgeable,well-informed and very intelligent just to sit and talk to him I found to be for me intellectually stimulating. He will be missed.
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