TO THE CHAPTER INVISIBLE
Left to cherish Brother Joel E. McLeod Jr.’s memory are his wife, Linda; mother, Eva; son, Bernard (Takeisha); three grandchildren, sisters, Judyth Miller (W. Bernard) and Kay Washington (Leslie); brother, Benjamin; brothers-in-law, Claude Lanier (Phyllis), Howard Lanier and Milton Lanier (Beverly); adopted sisters, Cynthia Goodwin and Harriet "Bunny" Jackson; nephews, nieces, and many other friends and relatives.
enjoyed, fishing, gardening, sailing, travel- ing, photography, reading and going to jazz shows. He also loved watching his beloved Eagles and Sixers. A Life Member of Kappa Alpha Psi®, Brother Joseph F. McLeod is survived his wife Marie (née Jimenez) McLeod; children, Kelly McLeod (Betty), Julian McLeod (Vonnie), Keita Kary (Dave), Jo- seph Mcleod (Tonya) and Angela Adkins; grandchildren, Joseph, Gabriel, Joshua and Ingrid; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins. Charles M. Miles 1938–2020 Educator, State Government Official Charles M. Miles (Austin (TX) Alumni 1962) entered the
Texas. He began his professional career as an educator at Kealing Junior High and later as a professor of Government at Austin Community College. Miles later worked for the United States Commission on Civil Rights where he coauthored a report about conditions at Angola prison in Louisiana. He also served as an assistant to then State Comptroller Bob Bullock, the first African American to do so. He was also the Executive Director of the Austin Housing Authority and was a member of the Austin Planning Commission. He was politically active through his life. He assisted in many campaigns. He also ran for office himself several times, most memorably for Travis County Commis- sioner in 1976. Though unsuccessful, the race was an early effort by African Americans to elect candidates in ger- rymandered precincts and led to later successes. He helped co-found BVAP (the Black Voters Action Project), which sought to increase black involvement and influence in elections in Austin and central Texas. In 1987, he purchased and restarted the publication of the Capital City Argus, which was one of East Austin’s oldest newspapers. Miles was a longtime member of the Elks Club. He was active in the Precur- sors, a group dedicated to remembering the first students at the University of Texas. Brother Charles M. Miles is was preceded in death by his parents and his wife, Winona (née Wilson) Miles. He is survived by sons Paul, Charles Lunnon, and Jonathan; two sisters: Iola Taylor and Ella Lindsey (Larry); two brothers: Edgar Miles (Ann) and Elijah Walter; nieces, nephews and a host of other relatives and close friends.
Joseph F. McLeod 1935–2019 Pharmacist, Entrepreneur
Joseph F. McLeod (Lambda 1955) entered the Chapter Invis- ible on November 15, 2019 at the age of 84. Joseph Franklin McLeod, affectionately known as “Frank”,
Chapter Invisible on February 25, 2020 at the age of 81. The youngest of eight children, Charles Murray
was born in Philadelphia, PA on Sep- tember 6, 1935 to the late Emmett and Catherine McLeod and was the youngest of 11 children. McLeod grew up in West Philadelphia where attended Philadelphia public schools and graduated from John Bartram High School in 1953. McLeod attended Temple University and Temple University School of Phar- macy where he graduated in 1958 and began working as a pharmacist. In 1960 McLeod and his family relocated to Dan- ville, IL where he worked at the Veterans Administration Hospital. In 1967, he and his family returned his native Philadelphia where they settled in West Mt. Airy. After retirement, he and his good friend Norman Robbins started a home improve- ment company called MAC Robbins. They were mostly known for their kitchen renovations. Music was a big part of his life. He loved listening to and playing jazz. While he was a college student, he played the stand-up bass in a jazz quartet. After his 70th birthday, he learned how to play the cello. He often said that if he hadn’t become a pharmacist, he would have been a jazz musician. He was a cook, who
Miles was born on July 8, 1938 in Hearne, Texas to Millie Ann Miles and John Henry Miles, Sr. Miles graduated in 1956 from Blackshear High School in Hearne, TX. Brother Miles’s selection of college was an historic one. Miles enrolled on 1956 at University of Texas-Austin (UT- Austin) as member of the first class of African-American undergraduates at the state’s flagship institution. In a maga- zine interview in 2018, Miles recalled about his collegiate experience as an incoming freshman, “Coming to the University of Texas wasn’t a hard deci- sion, because I was young and I wasn’t afraid of anything. The day that I made the trip for the first time, my brother was shipping off to Korea with the military on the very same day. My parents were more concerned about me going off to Austin than him going to Korea!” Miles graduated from UT-Austin and later earned a master’s degree in govern- ment from the University of North
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