Leslie Garland

GARLAND, BEAMAN, PACE, MILLER, FORD

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 3/25/2006 at 11:41:56

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
April 17, 2002

LESLIE GARLAND, Missouri

Leslie Garland, 81, of Blue Springs, Mo., died April 12, 2002, at St. Mary's Hospital.

Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. today (Wednesday, April 17) at Webb-Freer Funeral Home in Blue Springs with the Rev. Steve Cox officiating. Burial was at Blue Springs Cemetery.

Les Garland was born Aug. 8, 1920, to Byron and Sarah Iva (Beaman) Garland of Macksburg. He had been employed as a sales manager with Certainteed Corporation, retiring in 1986. A United States Army Veteran of World War II, Les was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Blue Springs, American Legion Post 499 and V.F.W. Post 15026.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister.

He is survived by his wife, Doris (Pace) Garland of Blue Springs; two sons, Michael Garland and Dan Garland, both of Blue Springs; a daughter, Nancy Miller of Richland, Wash.; a sister, Shirley Ford of Des Moines; 10 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.