John Chase: Memorial Planned for West Hollywood Urban Planner
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The memorial for John Chase will take place tomorrow 4 pm to 7 pm at Plummer Park, 7377 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood. Chase was West Hollywood's urban planner for fourteen years. He died Friday, August 13 at his home in Los Angeles. 
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LA Weekly contributor Tibby Rothman writes movingly about Chase at The Architect's Newspaper Blog. She gets at the complicated mix of emotions that follow the death of a good friend.
All weekend-long, as people--an extraordinary far flung tribe--talked to me of John's passing, I kept saying that the only person who should be allowed to grieve his passing was his husband, Jon Cowan. I know that John would be distraught, deeply upset to have left Jon this way. He would never have done that if he'd been given any choice. But I admit that such tough talk was a deep Ed Moses-alpha male lie. I cannot come to terms with John's death. With his passing. It's very selfish on my part: none of us can turn to him again.
Some things you might not have known about Chase: he drove a red Mercedes, and before opening his own practice, he was an Imagineer for Walt Disney.
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