KENNETT SQUARE, PA–David Mark Haradon, 72, a flexographer of 30+ years, past chair of Flexographic Technical Association’s Washington D.C. FORUM, instrumental player in the early development of the association’s webinar program and former member of its Board of Directors and Board of Trustees, passed away June 5, 2025.

Haradon was an early adopter of integrating brand owners into the FORUM program and developed a keynote session “Voice of the Customer,” for the FORUM he chaired. He also participated in the staging of Project FOG (Flexo, Offset, Gravure,”) dressing in appropriate fashion to convey the desired message.

He  was the loving husband of Peggy Lee Haradon (Murphy), with whom he shared 51 years of marriage, after meeting her in Purdue University’s Marching Band, where he played trumpet while studying as a chemical engineering major with a minor in marketing, and Peggy was studying to be a child life specialist while tossing a baton as a beautiful sequined majorette.

After college, Harradon began a 20+ year career with DuPont in senior management sales, marketing, product management and strategic planning roles., Dave started his own webinar production company in 2001.

Haradon leaves behind a legacy of happiness and love for his family, and is well known for leaving the world a better place through service to his community. Those efforts started in his high school Key Club (Kiwanis) and continued during his early career with senior leadership roles in Jaycee International. He was recognized as the Young Virginia Man of the Year in the late 1970s.

He was Longwood Rotary Club’s president from 2008-2009, District 7450 conference chair in 2011, Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI) instructor, District 7450 Corporate Board of Director member, District Treasurer, and Rotary District 7450 Governor from 2016-2017. His passion for both individual and organizational leadership was manifested in many white papers, articles, and even a course on transformational leadership through the Rotary Leadership Institute.

One of Haradon’s favorite quotes—from Mahatma Gandhi himself–reinforces Rotary’s ”Service Above Self” motto: “The best way to find your own self is to lose yourself in the service of others

Haradon was honored as Outstanding Citizen of the Year by the Southern Chester County Chamber of Commerce in 2015. He once said, “You can change someone’s life forever in a five-minute conversation along with the life of their friends, the life of the family and the lives of people that you will never know. That’s the game we are in. The game of “service above self.” The game of making a difference in someone’s life. Not by using a selfie stick, but using a selfless stick to build a better world.”

He will forever be remembered by his wife, son, Jonathon Mark Haradon, and wife Sarah; his daughter, Marcia Lynne Preston, and husband Darrin; his grandchildren, Marlowe Lee Haradon, Mason Burke Haradon, Braydon David Preston, Madelyn Lee Preston, Destiny Alexis Preston, and Cody Sean Preston; and several great-grandchildren