Individual Details

Percy W Leland

(16 Dec 1906 - 21 Mar 1971)

Jennings Daily News, Jennings, Louisiana, Monday, March 22, 1971, Front Page, Col. 5: Kinder site of P. Leland rites today. Kinder, La.---Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. today for Percy W. Leland, 64, of Kinder, who died Sunday afternoon in the Allen Parish Hospital following a brief illness. The Rev. Bill Mathews will officiate at the funeral, to be held from the First United Methodist Church, with burial following in the Kinder Cemetery with Masonic services and Ardoin Funeral Home in charge of burial arrangements. A retired civil engineer for the state, Leland had lived in Kinder for 50 years. He served as Mayor of Kinder from 1954-58, and was a member of the Kinder Lodge, 291, F. & A.M., Lake Charles Scottish Rite Bodies, Shriners, El Karubah Temple in Shreveport. Survivors include is widow; one daughter, Mrs. Dianne Haney of Kinder; one sister, Miss Donna Leland of Beaumont, Tex., and one grandson. The family has requested that memorials be made in the form of contributions to the Methodist building fund.

Events

Birth16 Dec 1906Texas
Arrival17 Jul 1929Age: 22 - New York, New York
Death21 Mar 1971Kinder, Allen Parish, Louisiana
BurialKinder McRill Memorial Cemetery, Kinder, Allen Parish, Louisiana
DeparturePort of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Families

SpouseNona Maydelle Reynolds (1906 - 1977)
ChildDianne Leland ( - )

Endnotes

1. Ancestry.com, New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Year: 1929; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 4536; Line: 5; Page Number: 152.

2. U. S. Gen Web Site.

3. Ancestry.com, New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Year: 1929; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 4536; Line: 5; Page Number: 152.

4. U. S. Gen Web Site.

5. U. S. Gen Web Site.

6. Ancestry.com, New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Year: 1929; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 4536; Line: 5; Page Number: 152.