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THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
CONTRA COSTA A COUNTY9 CALIFORNIA
Date: June 17, 2043 Adjournment
On this date the Board of Supervisors adjourned this meeting in
memory of Pittsburg community activist :Dan De Miglio. Dan
was 56 years old, and a resident of Pittsburg, California.
Dan De Miglio was an employee of the postal service for 33
years, and he eventually became spokesman for the service's
East Bay region. He was also an active member of the Pittsburg
community, where he once served on the Los Medanos
Community Healthcare District Board and ran unsuccessfully for
the school board in 2000.
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Pittsburg community activist lean De Migho dies Page 1 of 2
Posted on Tue, Jun. 17, 2003
Pittsburg community Activist Dein De Miglio ties
By Sarah Knapp
STAFF WRITER
Community activist and longtime U.S. Postal Service spokesman Clan De Miglio has died.
His wife, Joan De Miglio, found him dead Monday morning in their Pittsburg home. He was 56.
Autopsy results were not available.
De Miglio was an employee of the postal service for 33 years, and he eventually became spokesman for the
service's East Bay region.
He was also an active member of the Pittsburg community, where once served on the Los Medanos Community
Healthcare District Board and ran unsuccessfully for the school board in 2000.
"It's a great loss, I think, to not only the family, but to the community because he loved the area so much," said
his wife. The couple had been married 16 years.
She said he had been ill, but would not elaborate.
The De Mighos moved to Pittsburg from Concord it years ago and quickly got involved in the community.
While on the healthcare district board, he spurred a campaign to dissolve the district, which has not offered any
medical services since its bankrupt hospital shut down in 1994. De Migho and others collected more than 2,0010
signatures, and rallied a great deal of support for a measure to disband the district.
Although De Miglio was white, he was a prominent member of the East County chapter of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People, where he would volunteer his public relations expertise. He was also a
communications director for the fledgling local branch of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
Darnell Turner, who worked with De Miglio on the dissolution campaign and the NAACP, said that he was more than
a public servant, he was also a good friend. When Turner had surgery for a hernia last year, De Miglio was there to
take him home.
"He was there waiting for me," Turner said. "He drove me home and I didn't even have to ask him. He was right
there."
De Miglio will be missed by many neighborhood children, Turner said. Parents would often drop off their children so
that they could swim in their pool while De Miglio, who often worked from home, would mind them.
He leaves behind two children, four step children and eight grandchildren.
Funeral services are pending.
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