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Submitted: 2/18/22 • Approved: 2/18/22 • Last Updated: 2/18/22 • R12942-G0
Leonidas
February 10, 1875 - September 30, 1946
Obituary
Leonidas (Lee) Weddington was born on February 10, 1875, and departed this life on Monday, September 30, 1946, at the age of 71 years, 7 months and twenty days. He was born in Pike county, Kentucky, moving to Denver, Kentucky, in the year 1898. On Thursday, June 4, 1896, he was married to Dora Blair, who survives and to this union were born eleven children, nine of whom are living; Mrs. Fannie Hitchcock, Miami, Florida; Mrs. Norma Blair, Willie, Mrs. Gladys Scott, Mrs. Lucille Williams, New Carlisle, Ohio; Virgil, Tipp City, Ohio; Mrs. Florence Blanton, Collista; Hershel, and Mrs. Victoria Maliney, Leander. Also surviving are three brothers, Jim, Sellars, Ky.; John of Oklahoma, Jerry of Brooklyn, N.Y.; three sisters, Mrs. Florence Wilson, Sellers, Ky.; Mrs. Cora Logan, Indiana, and Mrs. Lula Wells, Peyton, Ky.; seventeen grandchildren, Mrs. Dorothy E. Curry, Virginia, Garnett and Herbert Eugene Blair, Burnette, Kenneth, Billie, Janet, Blanche, and Eldred Blanton, Anna Loretta, Opal, Kenneth Elwood and William Paul Weddington, Jimmie and Phyllis Scott, and Jerry Edwin Maloney. He was converted and baptized by Bro. L. F. Caudill in the year 1911, and was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church at Denver. Paintsville Herald Thursday 10-10-1946
Contributed on 2/18/22 by lblblair74
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