Mt. Angel Mayor Don Fleck died June 26 at the age of 68.
The funeral for Fleck will be held at noon July 1, followed by a graveside service at Calvary Cemetery in Mt. Angel. A memorial service for him will be held at 1 p.m. at the Mt. Angel Festhalle.
Fleck had been Mt. Angel’s mayor since being elected in 2020. He had been a city councilor for two terms prior to being elected mayor.
He was born March 31, 1954, and raised in Mt. Angel. He played football at Clackamas Community College.
He worked with his father at his father’s shop, Fleck’s Garage, in Mt. Angel in 1975, according to his obituary, when the shop was damaged in a fire. He joined the Mt. Angel Fire District as a volunteer after they saved the building.
Fleck started working for the Salem Fire Department in 1981 and worked his way up to the rank of captain. He also served as fire chief in Mt. Angel and worked as an instructor at Chemeketa while recovering from an injury.
He retired from Salem Fire in 2007 and as Mt. Angel chief in 2012.
He has been on Mt. Angel’s infrastructure task force since 2001 and his final project was negotiating with property owners for easements to complete the Marquam Sanitary Sewer trunk line project, according to the city.
City staff are wearing arm bands in his honor.
Mt. Angel’s City Hall and Public Works will be closed at 11 a.m. on July 1 so that its staff can attend Fleck’s funeral.
Bill Poehler covers Marion County for the Statesman Journal. Contact him at bpoehler@StatesmanJournal.com
