Been trying to track down Rachel Chandlers parents/family members. Found an obit listing family members.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-may-04-me-norman4-story.html

Norman B. Chandler, 49; Former Times Executive

From a Times Staff Writer

Norman Brant Chandler, a former executive with the Los Angeles Times and the first member of the fifth generation of the Chandler family to establish a career with the newspaper, died Friday. He was 49.

His father, Otis Chandler, publisher of the paper from 1960 to 1980, said his eldest son died at his home in Ojai of complications from a brain tumor.

An avid sportsman like his father, Norman Chandler was training for a triathlon event in 1989 when he collapsed and was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

He was a skilled surfer, an excellent swimmer and also shared his father's passion for auto racing. He participated in the Baja 1000 off-road race several times.

Although in failing health in the last decade, he pursued photography and painting and, until recently, kept up a regimen of physical therapy that included swimming.

Born in San Marino, Norman Chandler attended Polytechnic School in Pasadena and the Cate School in Carpinteria. He was a National Merit Scholarship finalist when he graduated in 1970. He went on to Yale University, later transferring to Stanford, where he earned a degree in communications.

He came to The Times in 1976, working in several departments in an executive training program.

His earliest assignments included working in the dispatch and composing departments in production, as a machinist's assistant and as a copy messenger in the newsroom.

He then joined the Orange County edition and the now-defunct Southeast Los Angeles County bureau as a reporter-photographer trainee, before working as a reporter at several overseas Times bureaus. He said years later that his experiences abroad deepened his interest in journalism and led him to rule out other professions.

When he returned to Los Angeles, he sought more experience in the newspaper's technical operations and worked as an assistant production manager at the downtown plant and as production superintendent in the San Fernando Valley operation. He also was circulation manager of the Greenwich (Conn.) Times and studied management principles with the Gannett Newspapers at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

He was named composing superintendent of the Los Angeles Times in 1987. In that role, Chandler managed many of the departments that were integral to the final page production of the paper.

The Chandler family controlled The Times for more than a century, beginning in 1884. The Times and its parent company, Times Mirror, were purchased by Tribune Co. in 2000.

Norman Chandler was the great-great-grandson of Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, who bought part-ownership of The Times in 1882, a year after it began publication and served as its publisher for 35 years.

Norman Chandler's great-grandfather was Harry Chandler, the Times' second publisher; his grandfather, Norman Chandler, was the third publisher, and his father, Otis Chandler, was the paper's fourth and last family member to hold the title.

In 1976, Norman Chandler married Jane Emilie Yeager, and they had four children: Otis, Christopher, Dana and Jenna. They survive him, as do his father; his mother, Marilyn Brant DeYoung; brothers Harry and Michael Chandler; sisters Cathleen Eckhardt and Carolyn Chandler; grandmother Jane Mawn Brant Ward; stepmother Bettina Chandler; and stepfather Patrick DeYoung.

There will be a memorial service at 4 p.m. Sunday at St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 409 Topa Topa Drive in Ojai.

The family requests that there be no flowers and that all donations be sent to St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Ojai.