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  • Levon Thomas :(

    Glendale News
    Glendale athlete killed in ATV crash in Armenia
    Local Scout leader had traveled to Armenia to play in the Pan-Armenian Games.




    Levon Thomas

    Glendale resident Levon Thomas, 20, died over the weekend in an ATV accident while visiting Armenia to play in the annual Pan Armenian Games.




    August 4, 2015 | 4:50 p.m.
    A young Glendale athlete who was killed in an ATV accident over the weekend in Armenia representing his hometown just days before the annual Pan-Armenian Games is being remembered for his good-natured spirit and commitment to volunteerism.

    Levon Thomas was only 20 years old, but according to family and friends had achieved a great deal as a soccer player, basketball player and as a Scout leader through his local chapter of Homenetmen, a nonprofit Armenian organization.

    Thomas was born in Glendale and graduated from Glendale High School two years ago. He was most recently attending Glendale Community College and worked as a lifeguard at the pool at Pacific Community Center.

    Hovig Chahinian, chairperson of the organization’s Los Angeles chapter, said he’d known Thomas since he was a boy, watched him grow up and coached him in soccer.

    He described Thomas as an ambitious team player who respected everyone, always had a smile on his face and would go out of his way to help others.

    “He was a model Scout and an ideal teammate, an overall unique individual,” Chahinian said. “Homenetmen teaches you to rise and raise others with you. Levon was one that exemplified the true vision of what Homenetmen is.”

    Chahinian’s brother, Arshag, was Thomas’ former Scout leader and soccer coach. He recalled the young man as someone who would never say no to an opportunity to help out.

    Chris Eskandarian, athletic director for the Los Angeles chapter and Thomas’ older cousin, echoed those sentiments.

    “Levon was just the perfect example of an athlete, of a player, of a teammate that any team in a Homenetmen organization needs to have,” Eskandarian said. “Every team needs to have somebody like Levon on their team for there to be a team.”

    Thomas and 17 other young athletes representing the city of Glendale flew to Armenia last week for the sixth annual Pan-Armenian Games to compete in soccer. Thomas played defense in the left-back and right-back positions. Thomas died on Saturday while in Tsaghkhadzor.

    Thomas’ father, Aram, athletic director for Homenetmen Western USA regional Committee, was en route to the games and was contacted about his son’s death while on a layover in Moscow, Chahinian said.

    Levon Thomas also leaves behind his younger brother, Shahe, who was also on that trip to Armenia, younger sister, Lara, and mother, Lena, who both remained at home in Glendale.

    Chahinian said Levon Thomas spent a lot of time at his father’s auto shop helping out and that a lot of his personal traits were passed down to him from his parents.

    Serge Grakasian, chairman of the soccer committee for Homenetmen’s Ararat chapter who helped assemble the team, said the local soccer players will continue to play in the games without the teammate they lost.

    It was Aram Thomas who told them they should push forward and carry on.

    “He talked to the kids and said, ‘you guys are here for the tournament, so you have to go and play for your teammate, play for yourself, play for your organization and play for your parents,’” Grakasian said. “That helped a lot. Probably Aram was the only one that could have said that.”

    Chahe Thomas, who played on a different team, wore his older sibling’s No. 5 jersey during a match on Tuesday.

    Funeral arrangements and memorial services are pending, Eskandarian said.

    Hovig Chahinian said what Levon Thomas achieved in his short life is what many wish they could attain in a full lifetime — and that will be a part of his legacy.

    “We can point to him and tell the next generation it can be done this way, it can be done the right way, it can be done in a way where you, as an individual, don’t come first, your surroundings do,” he said.

    Positive vibes, positive taught

  • #2
    Re: Levon Thomas

    The Quad ATV must have landed on him after he flipped. The three wheel ATV is the most dangerous. Dirt Bikes are the best and the most you do is brake a bone.

    ++RIP++
    B0zkurt Hunter

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    • #3
      Re: Levon Thomas

      It is so sad his fuuneral is on Monday
      Only 20 years old
      R.I.P.
      Positive vibes, positive taught

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      • #4
        Re: Levon Thomas

        I lost a good friend when I was 19......he flipped his convertible, no wearing seat belts back then, his passenger got thrown out and just broke his arm, car landed on my friend a dragged his head on the road. Not a pretty sight guys. He was 19
        B0zkurt Hunter

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        • #5
          Re: Levon Thomas

          Happens far too often up here. A young, crank on the throttle kid (majority) going way to fast (crank that throttle) got scewed by a tree branch cause (1) going way too fast, (2) can't pay attention to everything at that many feet per second.
          It's a reall sorrow and you can bet it was the 20 year olds fault.
          As a specialized tool for accessing rough terrain they are valuable when in the hands of a mature resonsible...
          but otherwise they are a death trap.

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          • #6
            Re: Levon Thomas

            That is why we all need to be thankful for every day of life, because life is 2 short
            Positive vibes, positive taught

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            • #7
              Re: Levon Thomas

              I lost a very good friend when we were 18.........he flipped his convertible as this other guy which was with him got ejected from the car but my friend driving got stuck between the car and the asphalt. Massive head injury leaving a trail. I found a peace of him after the incident clean up.
              We were mad because the guy who got ejected, we were questioning his action. He was known to grab the wheel from passenger side and give advise that no one needs (we used to street race). That guy had salvaged more cars than I can count. I always thought this guy is dangerous and until today I cannot dismiss that he might have grabbed the wheel on that turn, cause the wheel to hit the curve which flipped the mustang.

              Don't matter much I lost a good friend and this guy was a very good guy, everybody loved him. Never forget the screams of his mother the night we were suppose to pick him up and go out.

              Why good guys die young.
              B0zkurt Hunter

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              • #8
                Re: Levon Thomas

                Eddo yeghpayr, we cant question or answer why people die so young
                thats why I said in my earlier post we need to be thankful every day we wake up because no one knows when there time is up only GOD
                Positive vibes, positive taught

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