After graduating from Willows High School in 1970, DeLeon attended Butte Community College, and worked as a bus driver. He moved to Sacramento from Willows in 1972 with his mother and siblings, and worked construction building mobile homes. He also began attending Zion Church where he met and married his first wife Gloria, in 1974. […]
During his leisure time, DeLeon loved hanging out at K Street Mall because that’s were he’d meet up with his friends and with patrons that rode his buses. He’d often run into someone he knew at K Street Mall and talk for hours about the latest gossip, fashion, and popular catch phrases (slang). DeLeon always […]
On December 27, 1951 DeLeon was born to Alfred and Gussie Mitchell in Fairfield, California. DeLeon was the 2nd child of five. His older brother Bernard Mitchell was born a year earlier (1950), and his younger brothers Richard Mitchell, sister Janet Mitchell, and youngest brother Tony Mitchell were born several years afterward. […]
As a child, DeLeon attended the local grade schools in Willows. Although he had a rare bone disease (Osteogenesis Imperfecta), he and his brothers where athletically built and wanted to participate in sports like football, dive swimming, weight lifting, and track & field. However, the pastor of their church denied them these privileges and made […]
As a child, DeLeon often played with other children that attended their church. One day while he was playing with another child in the front yard where their pastor lived, he over heard him talking with someone. Both men where observing the children playing in the yard and decided to make wagers on their lives […]