Joseph Certaine worked under three Philadelphia mayors, advised countless political campaigns, and was a longtime civil rights and racial justice activist. He died in July at age 76.
Joseph Certaine had just suffered a heart attack and was laying in a hospital when his family held a phone to his ear. They weren’t sure if he was able to hear who had left him a voicemail. But they were sure going to try.
“This time, my mom pulled rank over [Rendell],” said Certaine’s son, Todd Stewart. “She said, ‘Joe, it’s time to come home and be with me.’”a Among the speakers were Mayor Jim Kenney, U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans, and City Councilmember Cindy Bass, each of whom gushed about Certaine’s political acumen and his ability to improve how city services were delivered. In a statement read at the service, David L. Cohen — Rendell’s former chief of staff and the current U.S. ambassador to Canada — called Certaine “the heart of the city.
“Hundreds of thousands of people who never met him, who may never have heard his name, will miss his leadership most of all,” he said. Rendell, 79, did not attend the memorial Thursday, saying in a statement read by his former aide, John Estey, that Parkinson’s disease “some days renders me almost immobile.”From 2016: Certaine led an effort to preserve the Bethel Burying Ground in Queen Village
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