HANCOCK – Charles Wesley Leonard, 77, died Tuesday, July 6, 2004, at an Ellsworth hospital. He was born Nov. 3, 1926, in Saginaw, Mich., the son of Glenford and Margaret (Gunn) Leonard. Wes graduated from Port Huron High School in 1944. He served in an M.P. Battalion in 1945-46 with the rank of PFC. Wes received his BS degree from Springfield College in 1951 with a major in Pre-medical science and minors in chemistry and education. He received his DDS degree from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis., and the award of the American Society of Dentistry for Children in proficiency in children’s dentistry in 1957. He was a Golden Gloves boxer after high school, wrestled in the A.A.U. and lifted weights with the YMCA team. Wes was a former Eagle Scout, Quartermaster Sea Scout and served as a scoutmaster in Port Huron, Mich., and was a neighborhood scout commissioner in Milwaukee, Wis. Wes practiced dentistry in Southwest Harbor and Hancock since 1957. In 1966, he ran for a seat in the Maine House of Representatives as a Republican. He is survived by two daughters, Martha Wesley Leonard of Hancock and Sarah Helen Leonard-Lawson and her husband, Todd, of Little Deer Isle; four grandchildren, William Russell Bennison, Jennifer Sue Bennison, Anna Sylvia Lawson, and Calvin Wesley Lawson; numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Wes was predeceased by his wife, Helen V. (Young) Leonard in 1996. Funeral services will be private. Gifts in memory of Wes may be sent to Camp Roosevelt Fund, care of Katahdin Area Council, PO Box 1869, Bangor, ME 04402-1869. Cremation arrangements are by Bragdon-Kelley-Campbell Funeral Home, Ellsworth.
CHARLES WESLEY LEONARD
