Longtime Hermosa Beach treasurer and civic volunteer dies
(Updating with services and additional quotes) John Workman John Workman, the city’s 18-year treasurer who was a tireless civic volunteer and 1989 Chamber of Commerce man of the year, passed away Friday morning. He was 73. Workman collapsed at home, where he was discovered by his wife of 50 years, Mary Ellen Workman. She had left the house for a meeting of TOPS, a sensible weight loss group, and expected her husband to follow later. When he did not, she returned to find him dead in their bedroom. A little more than two weeks before, during a heated reelection campaign for his treasurer’s post, Workman had suffered heart attack-like symptoms and was hospitalized for three days. “They put him through every kind of test,” his wife said. “They thought it was probably brought on by stress.” On Tuesday, three days before his death, Workman lost his reelection bid. But in the days following, he was “so perky, so up,” his wife said. Workman was born in Hermosa and lived in the city the past 44 years. In decades past, he owned the Triangle Hardware store on Pacific Coast Highway. His civic involvement included 33 years with Hermosa Rotary, 10 years delivering meals on wheels for Salvation…
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