Councilman Thomas White dies
Posted on August 27, 2010 by Ivan Pereira in City Council, District 28
Tom White
City Councilman Thomas White (D-South Ozone Park) died Friday, according to the head of Community Board 12. He had just turned 71 on Aug. 21.
White’s office informed the board Friday morning that he had died but gave no further details on the cause of his death or where he spent his final moments, according to the board’s chairwoman, Adjoa Gzifa.
“I was apprised of it yesterday that he was not doing well, and that it was a matter of days,” she said in a phone interview Friday.
There was no one in White’s office available for comment and a spokeswoman for the City Council had no comment as of early Friday afternoon. The councilman, who was currently serving his second consecutive term in office, was also the co-founder and executive director of J-CAP, a drug rehab center in southeast Queens.
White served as the Council member for 10 years until he was term-limited out of office in 2001. He returned to the post after defeating incumbent Allan Jennings in the 2005 Democratic primary.
