Need to remove LAST NAME only in merged letter

Here's my quandry. Client supplied a mail list with full name in column one. It's okay for the addressing portion, but in the salutation she wants to remove just the last name. I already merged my 2900 name list.
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I would need a way to search for any space and word before the comma and return in this one line only. Remove the space and last name so the comma slides over after John. I don't want to strip out any other words before a comma. I checked and I believe no line in the letter has a hard return following a comma.
Doable? If so, how?

Or you could search for \s[\l\u|\-]+(,)$ and replace with $1 to remove the last name and leave the comma next to the last word in the first name. this must be done as a find/change rather than a GREP style.
Colin's method is nice in it can be a style, but it leaves "space" between the last visible name and the comma because the text is still present. Colin "escaped" the comma in his version, too, but is seems to make no difference in my test.

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