Robert Reeves; Former Hawthorne Councilman, Mayor

Robert Reeves, 90, a city councilman in Hawthorne for 25 years who served two terms as mayor. A native of Chancellor, Ala., Reeves served in the Navy in the early 1920s and then began his 43-year career with Standard Oil in El Segundo. He retired as refinery supervisor in 1969. His public service began as a warden for Civil Defense and continued with the Hawthorne Planning Commission. He was on the Hawthorne City Council from 1953 until 1978 and was elected by his colleagues to serve as mayor in 1961 and again in 1971. On Tuesday in Gardena.