Tony Tranfa Update

Last week, we reported on the shocking death of much-beloved veteran L.A. journo Tony Tranfa, the online editor of the Daily Breeze who was 49.

Today, former co-worker Stuart Pfiefer, of the LAT tells us Tranfa was buried Saturday at Green Hills Memorial Park in Rancho Palos Verdes. Services were at the Green Hills chapel before an overflow crowd that included dozens of former reporters he’d mentored through the years.

Of his former colleague Pfiefer says:

“Tony was an amazing, fun, joyful person who truly loved newspapering and writing and life.

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