DeStefano
FOLLANSBEE — Colleagues, friends and family are mourning the loss of a long-time city leader following the death of John DeStefano.
DeStefano, who was in his 16th year as Follansbee’s city manager, died Monday after battling COVID-19 for several weeks.
A graduate of Brooke High School and West Liberty University, where he earned a degree in business administration and political science, DeStefano had worked as a Prudential insurance agent for 15 years and as a salesman for Banner Fibreboard in Wellsburg for eight years.
He had been the city’s 5th Ward councilman for 16 years when he resigned to take the city manager position.