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 Donald A. Leonard Sr.
January 13, 2005
Donald A. Leonard Sr., 83, of 98 Whittier Ave., died Thursday night at home.
Mr. Leonard was a former president and co-owner of Wellington Funeral Home.
Born in Springfield on Jan. 25, 1921, son of Frank E. Leonard Sr. and Edna Louise Hanfield Leonard, he was raised in Pittsfield and graduated in 1940 with the first vocational department class at Pittsfield High School.
He also graduated in 1949 as a funeral director and embalmer from the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science and from the School of Mortuary Management in Evanston, Ill., conducted by the National Foundation of Funeral Service.
An Army veteran of World War II, he served as an armorer with the 9205th Technical Service Unit from 1944 to 1946.
Mr. Leonard joined Wellington Funeral Home in 1946 and, in 1962, became president when he and his partner, Bruce H. Grunow, bought the funeral home. He also was vice president and treasurer of Bartlett-Wellington Funeral Home in Dalton and proprietor of Town and Country Memorials in Dalton. He retired in 1989. From 1940 until 1944, he had worked as a toolmaker for the former E.D. Jones Co.
He was a member of First United Methodist Church and had formerly served on its board of trustees. He also was a 40-year member of Pittsfield Lodge AF& AM York Rite Bodies and a past commander of Berkshire Commandry 22.
He also had been a member of the Melha Temple, the Berkshire Shrine Club, Collina Chapter 69 Order of Eastern Star, Pittsfield Grange 14, the Dalton Rotary Club, the Pittsfield Exchange Club, the Lenox Sportsmen's Club and the National Morticians Fraternity. He was a former director of the Massachusetts Funeral Directors Association.
His wife, the former Macie E. Williams, whom he married May 6, 1950, died March 17, 1997.
He leaves a son, Donald A. "Sparky" Leonard Jr. of Pittsfield; a daughter, Deborah B. Leonard of Santa Cruz, Calif., and a granddaughter.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- Donald A. Leonard Sr., 83, was called safely home on Jan. 13, 2005. Funeral services will be held at a later date. Burial will be in the spring in Mountainview Cemetery, Lenox.
There will be no calling hours. In lieu of flowers, if friends desire, donations in his memory may be made to the Wounded Warrior Project-United Spinal Association in care of DEVANNY-CONDRON FUNERAL HOME, 40 Maplewood Ave., Pittsfield 01201.
He is also survived by his granddaughter, Devon Modrak. He was predeceased by his brother, Frank E. Leonard Jr.
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