Los Angeles, California
May 6, 1919 - February 10, 2015 Magdaleno (Leno) F. Díaz entered El Otro Barrio (the next neighborhood), as he would quip, on February 10, 2015. He was 95. Born in Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, on May 6, 1919, Díaz crossed into the United States at an early age. His family of 10 siblings...
Read MoreI never saw this page before. It was very special reading all these messages. Thank you to everyone who posted here. We are coming up on the anniversary of his passing and this is very touching to read now.
Kathy Dias
February 14, 2020 | Los Angeles, CA | Daughter
Leno< Elisa & Frances Vasquez at the L.A. Opera
March 06, 2015
We are so sorry to learn of Leno's passing. Our condolences to Licha & family. We will always remember the happy couple that visited Helen Gardea in El Paso, Texas especially when our own Tia Lola Rubio joined the group. All those wonderful jokes that kept us laughing for days. RIP
Lauro & Cecilia Chavira
March 05, 2015 | El Paso, TX
We will miss Leno for many reasons, but specially for his charming and incredible way of telling jokes, making our gatherings much nicer with his singular charisma.
Jesse and Sally Kuhn
February 26, 2015
With Uncle Lee the year both our son and Mica received degrees at Stanford.
Liz Luscombe
February 23, 2015
I will always carry beautiful memories of Uncle Lee and time spent with him and Auntie Licha in San Bernardino. As a very young child waiting for the homemade popsicles to freeze, roadtrips to the beach and mountains; knowing even at a young age that Uncle Lee was the life of the party with his jokes (and that he was famous for his lime daiquiris with Bacardi rum).
One very memorable Christmas upon learning that I'd never read Dicken's, Great Expectations, he shared his beloved copy with...
Liz Luscombe
February 23, 2015 | Brooklyn, NY
querido abueloque en paz descanse
activista,maestro,artista,bailadory mucho msinsatiable in his hunger to learnhis mouth duck-taped for speaking Spanish in East L.Auntil the day he passed he read every book he could get his hands onhis paintbrushes ready to createhumbled by your brilliance and beautypara siempre, Tata Lenoeres una inspiracin profunda
Micaela Daz-Snchez
February 23, 2015 | San Antonio, TX
Everyone who knew him at all will have lost a real friend, and for all of us in the family he has left a place that ca never be filled. I think I never have known a kinder, more considerate person. Gloria M. Chriss
Gloria Chriss
February 22, 2015 | Lake Oswego, OR
Leno, we shared many stories and time together. He and Eliza were my mentors in writing and social justice action. I have nothing but admiration for this man! I possess one of his art projects that he presented to me and my husband for our 25th anniversary. Condolences to Eliza and family. Emma and David Lechuga
Emma Lechuga
February 22, 2015 | Highland, CA
