Falls Church City Manager Daniel S. McKeever, 61, died peacefully at the University of Virginia Hospital Tuesday night from complications of melanoma cancer. Despite being diagnosed with the condition last November and undergoing extensive treatments since, he continued to serve effectively in his pivotal role as the leader of Falls Church’s city manager form of local government almost to the moment that a sudden turn for the worse sent him to the U.Va. hospital last Thursday. Even as recently as the City Council work session of three days earlier, he was energetic and insightful as he led the Council through a difficult discussion of residential infill legislation.
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