LOS ANGELES – Chris Dufresne, an award-winning former sports writer for the Los Angeles Times, has died. He was 62.
He died suddenly Monday while dining with his family at home in Chino Hills, 30 miles east of Los Angeles, according to a Times staff memo posted Tuesday on Facebook. “Chris had been awaiting the results for what appeared to be a late-stage melanoma recurrence,” the memo said.
Dufresne got a job working on the loading docks at the Times after graduating high school in 1976. His father worked in the newspaper’s transportation department for 37 years.
In 1981, he became a clerk covering high school sports at the Times’ Orange County bureau. “He would shake his head like, 'How did my name end up in the paper?