Obituary: Eula (Mrs. J. D.) Leonard, March 27, 1973

Contributed by Brenda Scott Hines
Mar 2015
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The Bronte Enterprise, Coke County, TX - March 30, 1973
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Funeral services for Mrs. J. D. Leonard (Eula) Leonard, 86, were held 
at 10 a.m. Thursday in First Baptist Church.    The pastor, the Rev. 
Harry Morris, officiated. Burial was in Fairview Cemetery under the 
direction of Newby Funeral Home.
    
Mrs. Leonard died at 4 p.m. Tuesday in Shannon Hospital in San Angelo.          
She was born October 23, 1886, in Weed, NM, and moved to Coke County in 
1912 and was a school teacher in the Bronte area. Her husband Dr. J. D. 
Leonard, was a pioneer physician at Bronte.  He died in 1961.  Mrs. 
Leonard was a Baptist.
                      
Survivors include two sons, Dwain Leonard of Big Spring and Woodrow Leonard 
of Pueblo, Colorado; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Emagene Jackson of Amaraillo; a 
sister Mrs. Alice Phillips of Ozona; a brother, Ernest Lockhart of 
California; eight grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and one 
great-greatgrandchild.                   

Pallbearers were Craig Chumley of San Angelo, T. F. Sims, J. B. Mackey, 
L. O. Clark, Earl F. Glenn and Rev. C. R. Blake.

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