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December 7, 2007
PDA New Orleans coordinator dies in car crash
Rich Cozzone LOUISVILLE — Rich Cozzone, Volunteer Village Coordinator for Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has been killed in an automobile accident in New Orleans.
Details are sketchy, but initial reports indicated that no other vehicles were involved in the crash. Cozzone was the only fatality.
Cozzone, a retired school administrator from Ohio, came to the Gulf Coast for the first time shortly after Hurricane Katrina, and instantly became deeply involved in the PC(USA)’s disaster relief efforts. Before being named earlier this year as coordinator of all of PDA’s volunteer villages along the Gulf Coast, he was PDA’s site coordinator in New Orleans. |
