Edwin Gilbert Leonard

Edwin Gilbert Leonard, age 78, a former resident of Fort Scott, Kan., and more recently of Mesa, Ariz., passed away Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, in Mesa. He was born Aug. 14, 1940, in Fort Scott, the son of Wilbur H. Leonard and Hattie L. Francis Leonard. He married Leanna Corine Wise on July 31, 1960, in Fort Scott. Ed and Leanna moved from Fort Scott to Arizona in 1969. Ed had worked in Arizona as a carpenter.

Survivors include his wife, Leanna, of the home in Mesa and a son, Wayne Leonard of Chandler, Ariz. Also surviving are five sisters, Francis Brown, of Kansas City, Kan., Berniece Calame, of Albuquerque, N.M., Linda Defebaugh, of Nevada, Mo., Wanda Leonard of Fort Scott, Kan., and Dorothy Wild, of Broken Arrow, Okla., and a brother, Larry Leonard, of Owasso, Okla. He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, Albert Warren Leonard and Hubert Leonard and three sisters, Mary Margaret Leonard, Nadine Wurtz and Juanita Monroe.

Rev. Chuck Russell will conduct graveside services at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Memory Gardens Cemetery in Fort Scott. Memorials are suggested to the SEK Humane Society and may be left in care of the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, P.O. Box 347, Fort Scott, KS 66701. Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook at cheneywitt.com.