
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, May 6, 1990                   TAG: 9005060163
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: The New York Times
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

EX-WELFARE ACTIVIST BERT JAY DELEEUW IS SHOT TO DEATH

Bert Jay DeLeeuw, an organic farmer who was a former official of the National Welfare Rights Organization, died on Wednesday at J.C. Blair Hospital in Huntingdon, Pa., of a gunshot wound. He was 44 and lived in Walker Township, Pa.

Police arrested a neighbor and charged him with homicide.

DeLeeuw had been a farmer for the past five years.

In 1968, while a graduate student at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, he was active in the welfare rights movement in Washington and helped organize demonstrations. He later worked in the presidential campaigns of Sen. George McGovern, Sen. Fred Harris and Barry Commoner.

by CNB