CITY CANDIDATE SORTHUN DIES OF PNEUMONIA.Byline: EUGENE TONG tong 1 tr.v. tonged, tong·ing, tongs To seize, hold, or manipulate with tongs. [Back-formation from tongs. Staff Writer BURBANK -- Margaret Sorthun, who recently ran for City Council but was hospitalized with pneumonia pneumonia (n  mōn`yə), acute infection of one or both lungs that can be caused by a bacterium, usually Streptococcus pneumoniae in the run-up to the election, has died.
She was 71.
Sorthun, a retiree who served on a city task force charged with reviewing local fence ordinances, died March 8, nearly two weeks before her 72nd birthday, her daughter Linda Holtz said Wednesday. She received 341 votes, finishing seventh in the Feb. 27 election. "My mom had what it took," Holtz said. "If she wasn't in the hospital, she definitely would've been out there campaigning. She was a strong woman, and that's the way she had always been." Born March 21, 1935, in Oak Park, Ill., Sorthun moved to Burbank with her family in 1952. She graduated from Bellarmine-Jefferson Catholic High School and attended Glendale Community College Glendale Community College can refer to one of two colleges in the United States.
In the late 1950s, she and husband Jim Sorthun founded two small charter airlines, Farrair and Admiral Air Service, which flew from Burbank and Oakland to 11 other states until 1962. Her business morphed into Sorthun Aviation in 1963, an aircraft sales and parts business that operated until the late 1960s. She divorced her husband in 1967 and raised her daughters alone, working as an accountant and at the aerospace firm Lockheed until retiring in 1990. Though she had lived in Shadow Hills for decades, Sorthun moved back to the family home in Burbank in 2002 and became active in community issues. She was appointed by the City Council to a task force reviewing fencing fencing, sport of dueling with foil, épée, and saber. Modern Fencing The weapons and rules of modern fencing evolved from combat weapons and their usage. , walls and hedge standards in the city when she emerged as a strong opposition voice to new height limits. She is survived by daughters Holtz, 44, and Mary Louise Willams, 45, grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. Patrick Williams This article is about the American composer. For the Irish-American politician, see John Patrick Williams. For the American football player, see Pat Williams (NFL). Patrick Williams , 15, and Krystle Holtz, 13, and goddaughter god·daugh·ter n. A female godchild. goddaughter Noun a female godchild Noun 1. Cathy Jo Terhune, 51. eugene.tong(at)dailynews.com (818) 546-3304 |
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