Percy Pinkney’s Home-going and Upcoming Southern California Memorial Service
April 21, 2016
Percy was laid to rest in a Mount Vernon burial plot very near to that of his son, Percy Junior
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Percy Pinkney
Percy Pinkney, Community Activist and State President of BAPAC, Passes at 78
March 23, 2016
Community activist and U.S. Army veteran Percy Pinkney passed on March 18. Pinkney earned his degree at San Francisco State and his masters in social work from Lone Mountain College in San Francisco. After graduation, he found himself working on the behalf of San Francisco’s youth. He founded a youth community center and worked as a social worker to help gang interventions and diversion programs.