Obit: Leonhard, Marie (1889 - 1962)

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Source - Anna Johnson's Scrapbook

Marie (Tepolt) Leonhard (21 March 1889 - 8 February 1962)

Mrs. Peter Leonhard, 72, of 1101 S. Cherry Ave., died at 5:45 p.m. Thursday in St. Joseph’s Hospital. She has been in ill health for the past year.

Funeral services will be conducted at 9:30 a.m. Monday in Sacred Heart Catholic Church with the Rev. L. H. Timmerman officiating. Burial will be made in Gate of Heaven cemetery.

Friends may call at Rembs Funeral Home beginning Saturday evening. The Christian Mothers Society rosary service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday. The Catholic Daughters of America rosary will be at 7 p.m. Sunday, and the general rosary at 8 p.m.

The former Marie Tepolt was born in Stetsonville March 21, 1889 and received her education at the Stetsonville School. She resided at Stetsonville and worked at Hibbing, Minn. before her marriage on Oct 31, 1911 to Peter Leonhard in Hibbing, Minn. The couple lived there until 1918, when they returned to the Dorchester area. In 1921 they moved to Marshfield. She was a member of the Christian Mothers Society of Sacred Heart Church.

Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Rhodes, Marshfield; two grandchildren and three brothers, John Tepolt, South Beach, Ore.; Joe Tepolt, Portland, Ore. and Florian, also of Oregon.

A son, SGT. Linus G. Leonhard, was killed in action in North Africa during World War II. Two sisters and two brothers also preceded her in death.