Yolo County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....WARNKE , LeRoy Wilbur  March 5 2004
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Woodland "Daily Democrat," Monday, March 15, 2004
LeRoy Wilbur Warnke

LeRoy Wilbur Warnke died at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Sacramento on Friday,
March 5, 2004, at age 83. He was born on June 8, 1920, in Benson, Ill., to
William and Anna (Coleman) Warnke.

Mr. Warnke had been a Yolo County resident for 46 years. He was a veteran of
Word (sic) War II, enlisting in the U.S. Army, and served in the Quartermasters
Corps at Ft. Hood. In 1946, Mr. Warnke was discharged and later married Shirley
Edwards in 1947. They moved to Woodland and operated LeRoy's Beauty Salon &
Boutique and the Merle Norman Cosmetics Studio for more than 30 years in the
woodland Hotel. Following Mr. Warnke's retirement, the couple lived in Stockton
and Santa Rosa briefly before returning to live in Davis. Mr. Warnke was an
active member of the American Lutheran Church in Woodland as well as the Davis
Lutheran Church and Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Santa Rosa.

Survivors include his wife, Shirley of Davis, son, Don Warnke and his wife Lori
(Cook) of Woodland; daughter, Judy Lee Perlberg of Palatine, Ill.; and
sister-in-law, Dorothy Warnke of Texas. Also surviving are granddaughters,
Michelle Warnke of Sacramento, Leah Warnke and Nicole cook of Woodland;
grandsons, Michael and Matthew Perlberg of Illinois; brother- and sister-in-law,
George and Barbara Gossett of Woodland; as well as numerous cousins, nieces and
nephews. Mr. Warnke's parents and five brothers, Melvin, Harvey, Delmar, Wesley
and Eldon Warnke preceded him in death.

The family requests memorials be directed to the American Lutheran Church, the
Gideons International, P.O. Box 773, Woodland, 95776; or the American Cancer
Society, 1765 Challenge way, Sacramento, 95815.

Services: Services are scheduled for 11 a.m., Friday, march 12, at the American
Lutheran Church, 1114 College St., Woodland. There will be no visitation prior
to the service. Interment at Monument Memorial Park will be private.


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