Warner Jenkins (light blue suit) and Alhambra City Council members pose next to proposed statute of Warner Jenkins. When completed, the statue will be placed by the First Street Gazebo.

(1914-2004)

Warner Jenkins was a long-time
editorial executive with the Alhambra
Post-Advocate and community
activist in Alhambra.

Jenkins was born April 26, 1914, in Crookston, MN, and began his journalism career in 1934 at the South Bay Daily Breeze. After serving in the U.S. Navy during WWII, he returned to the Daily Breeze, and later was managing editor of the Marin Journal before joining the Post-Advocate in 1948.

During the next 40 years, he was at various times the paper's managing editor and publisher. He also wrote a column, "Off the Cuff."

Over his long career, Jenkins interviewed Eleanor Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan and Amelia Earhart, among many others.

He was active in many local organizations, including serving as president of the Alhambra Chamber of Commerce, the Alhambra Central Business District Association, and the Optimist Club of Alhambra.

He passed away June 1, 2004 of congestive heart failure. He is survived by three children, Dulcy Lin Jenkins of Alhambra, Steven Warner Jenkins of Pasadena, and Denise Ann Pontious of Peoria, AZ; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.