St. Cloud mayor grapples with worst kind of tragedy St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis says his younger brother showed few signs of depression before he killed himself. April 9, 2021 10:51am Text size Copy shortlink:
While perched on a cold granite bench on a sunny March day, St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis peered down to read his younger brother s name engraved in the granite.
Thomas Joseph Kleis, known as Tom to his family, died by suicide in July after showing no blatant signs of depression to his family. I say this often: People just need to be kind to each other always because you don t know what someone is going through, Kleis said. I wish we could have known what to say or what to do to prevent him from doing what he did.