George McQuade, 64, former news producer and anchor for NBC and CBS affiliates in Los Angeles, who had numerous PR posts as well as being West Coast correspondent for O’Dwyer’s, died Oct. 15.
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George McQuadeMcQuade, former PR director of the Housing Authority of L.A. and media relations manager, Southern Calif. Gas Co., was director of communications, L.A. Homeless Services Authority, from 2013-15.
He also served through the years as VP of Mayo Communications, a firm he co-founded with his wife Aida Mayo in 1995. He has covered West Coast PR and media news for O’Dwyer’s since 2000.
His awards include a Medal of Valor from the California State Firefighters Assn. and an L.A. City Council Hero Award for saving the life of a UCLA doctor who had been injured in an SUV crash in 1997.
He received Golden Mike Awards from the Radio-TV News Assn. of South California and awards from the Associated Press. He was past president, Entertainment Publicists Professional Society, and was a director of the International Trade Education Programs and L.A. Press Club since 2000.
Biographical material is in this FaceBook link.
Survivors include sons Kevin and James, a sister Kathy, a brother James, and nieces and nephews.
Peter Costiglio, a top corporate communications executive for more than 40 years, died March 17 after a long-battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. He was 76.
Howard Geltzer, who launched New York-based Geltzer & Co., which he ran with his wife, Sheila, died Jan. 7 from a cancer-related illness. He was 88.
Joe Boyd, co-founder and CEO of MCS Healthcare Public Relations, died on December 24 at age 71.
Barbara Hunter, public relations pioneer and founder of New York-based agency HUNTER, passed away on December 18 at age 97.
Bob Marston, who built Robert Marston And Associates and Marston Strategic Communications, died July 14 of respiratory failure. He was 86.
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