Fleming, Alan Jiminez

NAME: Alan Jiminez Fleming

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[FLEMING, 45, A LOVER OF BOOKS AND PEOPLE]

Source: Connie Langland, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Alan Jiminez Fleming, a librarian by training and a community molder by nature, loved nothing better than teaching children how to make a vejigante, a bogeyman mask that is a parade tradition in Puerto Rico.

So mask-making workshops became a hallmark of his tenure as head of the Lehigh Avenue branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

Mr. Fleming, 45, of Center City, died Sunday of AIDS-related complications at Hahnemann University Hospital, according to his sister, Sara Fleming, ofPublished on 1995-01-03, Page B06, Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA)

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[FLEMING]Source: Gloria Campisi, Daily News Staff Writer Alan Fleming never viewed as a "negative" the dilapidated, graffiti- scarred building where he worked at 6th Street and Lehigh Avenue.

Instead, Fleming, a fluent Spanish-speaker, saw the Lehigh branch of the Free Library in a predominantly Latino Fairhill section as "a place for him to do a lot of good work," said his supervisor, Carolyn Hale.

Fleming was reassigned from the Lehigh branch last year due to illness, but spent the previousPublished on 1995-01-03, Page 20, Philadelphia Daily News (PA)

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Date of Death (delete if non-applicable): 1/1/1995

Age at Death (delete if non-applicable): 45

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