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Leonard O. Dexter
Jody Hane2021-01-23T11:08:42-06:00
- Name: Leonard O. Dexter
- Location of Birth: Ventura, Iowa
- Date of Birth: January 19, 1901
- Date of Death: April 30, 1984 (83 years old)
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- Highest Rank: WAGR (Wagoner)
- Branch: Army
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World War I
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Leonard was married on January 1, 1934 in Warba, Minnesota.
He was a long-time Deer River, Minnesota farmer and he was a barber in Deer River from 1933 to 1946.
Leonard is survived by his wife, Leona; four sons, Keith, Dean, Dale, and Bruce; two daughters, Janet Wagoner and Gale Dexter; one brother, S. B. Dexter; three sisters, Mabel Wolf, Ruth Dahlberg, and Margaret Martinson; eleven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by three brothers and a sister.
Leonard died at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in St. Cloud, Minnesota and is buried in Fort Snelling National Cemetery at Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Plot W,O,402)
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