A brief death notice records Leonidas P. Econom’s passing:
“Leonidas P. Econom, age 98 passed away on Friday, April 5, 2024. Leonidas was born in New York, New York. Northridge, California.”
His age 98 at death anchors his year of birth to approximately 1926 — the same year as his future wife Rhea “Lula” Jeannopoulos, also born in New York City (October 1, 1926). They were near-coevals from the start. He survived her by eleven and a half years; she had died July 14, 2012, also in Northridge.
The notice is the source of record for his middle initial “P.” — almost certainly encoding his father’s first name in the Greek patronymic tradition — and confirms his New York City birthplace, establishing him as a US-born Greek-American rather than an immigrant from Greece. Whether he was the first of his family to be born in America, or whether his parents had emigrated earlier, is still to be researched.