St. Clair County Obits

LEONARD GEORGE GLASER

St. Clair County Courier
27 October 2006
Leonard George Glaser was born October 23, 1916 in rural Westphalia, Kan., to Jesse and Katie Breithaupt Glaser. He passed away Sunday, Oct. 15, 2006, at the Olathe Medical Center, Olathe, Kan.
He grew up in the Scott Valley neighborhood in eastern Coffey County and graduated from Burlington High School. On April 2, 1941 he and Verda Mae Cauthon were married at Osceola, Mo. On December 18, 1942, Leonard entered the U.S. Army. He served overseas during World War II and was discharged on December 7, 1945. He returned to Osceola where he and Veda farmed until moving to their farm near LeRoy in 1950 where Leonard continued to farm the rest of his working life. Leonard was baptized in the Southern Baptist Church in Missouri. He served on the District 88 Rural School Board near LeRoy and was a member of Post 313 of the American Legion of LeRoy. His parents and two brothers, Raymond and Orlin Glaser, as well as his wife, Veda, preceded him in death.
Leonard is survived by his two daughters, Linda Hess and her husband, Larry, from Highland, Ill., Carolyn Harvey and her husband, Gail from LeRoy, Kan.; grandchildren Tasha and LaNesha Harvey, Tom Hess and his wife, Candy, and his four great-grandchildren.
Services for Leonard were Friday, Oct. 20, at the First Christian Church in Leroy, Kan. Interment at Logue Cemetery east of Leroy under the direction of Jones Funeral Home, Burlington, Kan.
Memorials may be made to Southern Coffey County Scholarship Program, Inc. and sent in care of Jones Funeral Home at P.O. Box 277, Burlington, KS 66839.