Services to Be Saturday for AIDS Activist Hamlin
LA HABRA — Services will be held Saturday for Matthew Russell Hamlin, AIDS educator and activist, who died Nov. 13. He was 36.
An avid horseman who taught riding at Sycamore Trails stable in San Juan Capistrano, Hamlin was formerly the client services director of the AIDS Services Foundation in Irvine and a founding advisory committee member of Hospice Orange County.
He was also an executive committee member of ACTION (AIDS Coalition to Identify Orange County Needs), a volunteer with AIDS Project Los Angeles and a lecturer on AIDS to students at UCIrvine Medical Center and the UCI College of Medicine.
A resident of La Habra, he is survived by his mother, Beverly Hamlin of Brea, his sister, Laura Garver-Ahumada, and a niece, Brittan Garver of Solana Beach.
Services will be at 10 a.m. at the United Methodist Church, 21632 Wesley Drive, in Laguna Beach. Contributions may go to AIDS Services Foundation.
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