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John Ernest (Jake) McLaughlin, the co-founder and publisher of Canadian Automotive Fleet magazine, which was created as a joint venture with Bobit Business Media, passed away on March 29 in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
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Dana Gaffney, retired strategic account manager for Merchants Fleet Management, passed away on March 25 from lung cancer. She was 60. During her career in fleet leasing, Gaffney worked for Kayser Leasing, Velcor, ULTEA, and ALD Automotive USA.
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Mary Olson, retired regional sales manager for Wheels Inc., died after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 60. Olson had a 42-year career in the fleet leasing and management industry, including Lend Lease and GE Capital Fleet Services.
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Jim McNulty, past president of the Automotive Fleet & Leasing Association (AFLA) and more recently the owner of Lone Star Auto Auction in Lubbock, Texas, passed away on March 9, 2017, from complications of esophageal cancer.
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Ed Abratowski, a fleet account specialist who worked for Chrysler for more than four decades, passed away at his Sterling Heights, Mich. home on March 18. He was 80.
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Brian Grozier, fleet zone manager for Fleet Service Organization of Ford Motor Co. in the Barnstable/Yarmouth, Mass. area, and who worked for the automaker for almost 33 years, passed away unexpectedly on Feb. 18. He was 58.
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Diana Reed, retired fleet sales manager, passed away on Feb. 8, 2017. She was 73. During her fleet sales career, Reed worked for Tom Naquin Chevrolet in Elkhart, Ind.; Jordan Automotive Group in Mishawaka, Ind.; and Kenny Kent Auto in Evansville, Ind.
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Jim Conner, the founding president of James W. Conner Fleet Services, a fleet vehicle buying service, and a past president of the Automotive Fleet & Leasing Association (AFLA), died on Jan. 24, following a long battle with cancer.
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Ted Less, a long-time Wheels executive passed away on Dec. 11. He was 86. Less retired from Wheels Inc. in 1995 as a senior vice president. He spent all but three years of his entire working career at Wheels Inc., which he joined in 1958 as truck leasing manager.
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Ditlow, both an attorney and an engineer, had served as executive director of the Center for Auto Safety since 1976.
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