Alcoholism-Drug Council Leader James Roten Dies
James Avery Roten, president of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence of Orange County, has died. He was 62.
Roten died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Newport Beach residence Dec. 8, according to the coroner’s office.
He was a human resources administrator for Bromar Corp., a Newport Beach-based food brokerage company, and had been with the company for 25 years.
Grant McNiff, acting director of the National Council on Alcoholism, said Roten served as president in 1989 and again this year.
The council provides information on the disease of alcoholism and operates on a yearly $1-million budget. It has a staff of 30 people, McNiff said.
Roten is survived by his wife, Elaine; sons Daniel and Christopher, both of Pasadena, and David, of Los Angeles; sisters Roberta Moody of Burbank, Mary Bogard of Irvine and Doris Carter of Hollywood; and a brother, Allen, of Saratoga.
The Neptune Society of Newport Beach is in charge of funeral arrangements.
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