March 21--Former San Diego newspaper editor Jerry Warren, who also served as deputy press secretary for Presidents Nixon and Ford, has died. He was 84.
He died Friday in an Arlington, Va., hospital, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Warren was editor of the San Diego Union from 1975, through the merger that resulted in the U-T, until 1995.
In 1969, he was assistant managing editor of the Union when he was hired to work in the press office of then President-elect Richard Nixon.
Warren stayed on after Nixon resigned in 1974 and Gerald Ford took over, leaving the position the next year to return to San Diego as editor of the paper.
He stepped down from the U-T in 1995 and moved to the East Coast, where he became increasingly involved in religious matters, graduating from the Virginia Theological Seminary with a masters in theology in 2004.
A full obituary will appear later at latimes.com/obituaries.
