Kevin Gleason

Kevin Gleason, a former TID employee, died Dec. 26, 2010 after a two-year struggle with cancer. He was 70.

He was born in Brooklyn NY on Nov. 1, 1940. Despite relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area in his 30s, he remained an avowed New Yorker.

Talented as a cartoonist and photographer, Gleason was accepted into the High School of Industrial Arts in Manhattan. He attended Brooklyn College and graduated from UC Berkeley. He then returned to New York and started his career as a technical writer and editor for Random House and Columbia University Press.

In the early 1970s he returned to the Bay Area where he worked as a technical editor for Wadsworth Publishing, Canfield Press, W.H. Freeman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and other publishing organizations.

Gleason’s greatest passions were his family and friends, conversation, photography, the English language, books and automobile racing. He was intelligent, creative, generous and had a biting wit.

He is survived by his wife of 33 years, Nancy Aden-Gleason; and their children, Flynn and Caitlin Gleason; his first wife, Nola Zibaroff; their daughter, Morgan Gleason-Fenton; and his sister, Suzanne Gleason Davis. His parents, James Francis Gleason and Helen Ramirez predeceased him.

A private memorial gathering will be held in his honor.