COSSMAN, Leonard F.

COSSMAN, MCELENEY, MCDERMOTT, KRENTZ, BUSK

Posted By: Nettie Mae
Date: 1/18/2003 at 12:35:22

CLINTON-Leonard F. Cossman, 78, of 1228 Pershing Blvd., died Saturday at Genesis Medical Center East in Davenport.
Mass of the Christian Vurial will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Prince of Peace Parish, St. Mary’s Catholic Church with the Rev. Ronald Young officiating. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Pape Funeral Home, where a 7 p.m. vigil service will be conducted. Burial will be in St. Irenaeus Calvary Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Tim McDermott, Paul Krentz, Henry Knudsen, Andrew Cossman and Joe Cossman Jr.
Honorary pallbearer will be William Ritenour.
He was born Oct 2, 1919 in Lyons, to Leonard and Mary McEleney Cossman. He married Mary McDermott, Oct. 2, 1948, in Clinton.
He was a 1937 graduate of Lyons High School.
He was a veteran of World War II, serving as a staff Sergeant in the United States Army with the invasion of Africa and Italy.
He had been employed with E.I. DuPont Co., retiring in 1978.
He was a member of the 25-year Club and of Prince of Peace Parish.
Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Karen Cossman of Clinton, and Mrs. Beth (Paul) Krentz of Naperville, Ill.; three sons, Leonard Cossman Jr. of Parkersburg, W. Va., Joe Cossman of Wheaton, Ill., and Mark Cossman of Des Moines; six grandchildren; a brother, Joseph Cosmann of Clinton; a sister, Lucille Busk of Clinton; and five nieces and a nephew.
Death date: May 9, 1998.