Gene Sakahara – From picking in the garlic fields to center stage at the Cook-off
The year was 1991. It was 3 a.m. on an early July morning, and
Former Gilroy mayor passes at 77
Gilroy’s gangly former mayor with a broad smile, firm handshake and deep voice – a descendant of the city’s founding father and a much-decorated American war hero – died Wednesday morning at his home in Texas with his wife Patricia by his side. Kevin A. “Mike” Gilroy was 77.
