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Show Funeral Servic es Held Wednesday for Walter Leonhardt Funeral Services for Walter Leonhardt, 72, who died of natural causes in a Salt Lake hospital on Sept. 11, 1976 were held Wednesday, Sept. 15, in the Olpin Family Mortuary Mor-tuary Chapel in Pleasant Grove. The servces, under the direction of Bishop C. Don Crump of the Eighth Ward, were held at 1 1 a.m. Speakers were Bishop Donald Fox and Bishop McKinley Thomas, and a biographical sketch was given by Bishop Crump. Prayers were given by S. Grant Jewkes, Malin Smith and Kayle Bullock, and the grave in the American Fork City Cemetery was dedicated by Eric Leonhardt. Musical numbers were given by an Eighth Ward Ladies Chorus, accompanied by Sharon Hatch, and an organ solo was played by Pat Goff. Pallbearers were David, Dennis and Donald Leonhardt, Leonhar-dt, Todd. and.Nephi Mat-thiesen Mat-thiesen and Ronald Firth. Walter Leonhardt was born Oct. 24, 1903 in Germany tp Emil and Ellis Pilz Leonhardt. ' He married Martha Fach on May 17, 1928 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He retired from Geneva Steel in 1969. He was a high priest in the Pleasant Grove 8th LDS Ward at the time of his death. Survivors include his widow, two sons and two daughters, Heinz Leonhardt, . Pleasant Grove; Paul . Leonhardt, Orem;. Mrs. Bob ' . (Mary) Brownfield, San Pedro, Calif.; and Mrs. Edward (Helen) Stoddard, Monterey, Calif.; eight grandchildren, and a brother, Eric Leonhardt, Salt Lake Citv. |