Eleanor Faye Leonard, age 87 of Clinton, Missouri passed away Sunday, May 3, 2009 at Clinton Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, Clinton, Missouri. Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton. Family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Graveside services will be 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 6 at Pleasanton Cemetery, Pleasanton, Kansas. Family suggests memorials to Clinton Christian Church or Twin Lakes Hospice and may be left at the funeral home. Fond memories can be left online at www.vansant-millsfuneralhome.com.

Faye was born August 15, 1921 in Pleasanton, Kansas the daughter of Lawrence Washington and Esther May (Marmon) Leisure. She graduated from Pleasanton High School. She married Harold W. "Pat" Leonard in 1941 in Eldorado Springs, Missouri and he preceded her in death in l995.

She was a fifty year member of the Order of Eastern Star in Pleasanton, Kansas. She was a member of the Clinton Christian Church and the C.W. F. in Clinton, Misouri.

Faye was a wonderful mother, grandmother and great grandmother, a special sister that was loved by many. Faye loved to cook, can, bake and was very good at all and she could fry fish like no one else.

We would like to mention her very good friend and Pastor David Dubovich who in the last year made many trips to the hospital and Clinton Hearthcare and they became very good friends.

She is survived by her son, Gary Leonard and wife, Joan of Clinton, Missouri; one brother, Jack Leisure of Higginsville, Missouri and two sisters, Ruth Murdock and husband, Richard and Shirley Jones, all of Clinton, Missouri; two grandchildren, Jennifer Meyers of San Diego, California and Brent W. Leonard of Lee's Summit, Missouri and three great grandchildren, Cory Joseph Meyers, Madeline Faye Leonard and Noah Wayne Leonard as well as a number of nieces and nephews who lovingly called her, Auntie Faye.