Tim Leimert, who served as president of the Los Angeles Realty Board in 1961, later became interested in planned coastal development and worked with developer Fred Marlow in the 1970s to develop Oxnard Shores. He also bought a ranch in Cambria and began developing Cambria Pines.
A graduate of UCLA, Leimert worked with Edward R. Murrow's CBS News team as a radio correspondent during World War II, covering action in the Pacific. He was aboard a B-29 Flying Fortress in bombing raids on Tokyo in 1944, and made the first airborne on-scene report of Hiroshima after the atom bomb was dropped on the city.
For The Record
Los Angeles Times Tuesday February 03, 2004 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 35 words Type of Material: Correction
Leimert obituary -- The obituary of developer Walter H. Leimert Jr. in Friday's California section incorrectly referred to the World War II-era B-29 aircraft as a Flying Fortress. The aircraft was known as the Superfortress.
For 38 years, Leimert was the in-stadium announcer for UCLA Bruins football games.
He served on the board of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, was a trustee of Whittier Law School and was active in the Pacific Legal Foundation.
Leimert is survived by his wife, Judith Hane Leimert; two sons, Walter III and Norman; two stepsons; three grandsons; and seven stepgrandchildren.
Services will be private. The family has asked that any memorial donations be made to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., or to the Pacific Legal Foundation in Sacramento.
