Dougherty-Muscogee-Laurens County GaArchives Obituaries.....Leach, Roy B. January 31, 2005
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The Albany Herald - January 2, 2006
 Roy B. Leach

   COLUMBUS, GA — Roy B.Leach, 90, of Columbus, GA passed    away    Saturday,
December 31, 2005, at the Columbus Hospice House surrouded by his loving family.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Vance-Brooks Funeral Home, 
with a military Chaplain officiating. Interment will follow the service
at Ft. Mitchell National Cemetery. The family will receive friends (Tuesday) 
this evening from 7p.m.-9 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mr. Leach was born in Laurens County, GA, July 12,1915, son of the late Richard 
Bert Leach and Alice Lee Glover Leach.  He retired from the Army in  1962
and continued working with Civil Service. A decorated veteran of World War II, 
he was awarded the Bronze Star for Valor. He was a loving and dedicated husband 
to his wife Gerta for 58 years. A dedicated family man and a Baptist  by  
faith,  Mr.  Leach believed in God,  Family and Country. Other than his parents
he is preceded in death by three brothers, Jack, John, and Robert Leach.

Mr. Leach is survived by his wife,  Gerta  Heider  Leach  of Columbus; 
children, Margaret R. Hamrick and Richard W. Leach,both of Columbus, and Robert
and Linda Leach of Albany; grandchildren, Heidi Hamrick,Michael and Lori Leach, 
Donna and  Shawn  Bullington,  and Debbie and Marlin Poole III; and
nine great-grandchildren.

Vance-BrooksFuneral Home
Columbus 706/569-0145

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