Memorial service pays tribute to a health guru

Dressed in colorful shirts and sandals, nearly 200 relatives and friends paid tribute to California fitness icon and health guru Gypsy Boots during a memorial service at a Hollywood cemetery.

Boots, born Robert Bootzin, died Aug. 8 at a convalescent home in Camarillo after a brief illness. He was 89.

On Saturday, people gathered at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery remembered his generosity as well as his free-spirited lifestyle and passion for health food.

Born Aug. 19, 1914, Boots defined what it meant to live close to nature decades before the nation's current obsession with organic foods, yoga and exercise.