"Leeper to Meet Reaper."
"Anti-War Activist Loses Battle With Mortality."
"Ed's Dead."
Somewhere, even as readers gasp at these potential headlines, Ed Leeper is chuckling softly.
That's why we loved him: He could make us gasp, he could make us chuckle and he wasn't scared what people thought.
And he chuckled a lot too.
"Be brave," is the lesson his daughter Kira Godbe, who found him dead March 22, values from him most.
Here, we assemble other lessons he taught intentionally or otherwise, and ways he made us think, across an expansive cover story, eulogies, letters to the editor and more.
The last time I saw Ed Leeper was at his home in Monterey. He died there Friday, March 21.
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