Entered in eternal rest the morning of Saturday, August 16, 2003, Serena Aiken Simons Leonhardt, widow of Alexander F. Leonhardt. Relatives and friends are invited to attend her Funeral Service in St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Sunday, August 24, 2003, at three o'clock. Interment will be private. Mrs. Leonhardt was born in Charleston, S.C., February 6, 1923, the daughter of noted Charleston architect and preservationist Albert Simons and Harriet Porcher Stoney Simons, the first president of the South Carolina League of Women Voters and The Maternal Welfare Clinic (Planned Parenthood) in South Carolina. Mrs. Leonhardt attended the Shipley School in Philadelphia and graduated from Smith College. She served in the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) and was stationed in Calcutta, India during the Second World War, and following the war in Vienna, Austria. Throughout her life she supported and worked for organizations concerned with social issues, most notably Planned Parenthood. In 1948, she married Alexander F. Leonhardt of New Orleans, son of Erasmus Alexander Leonhardt, a coffee buyer for Westfeldt Brothers, and the artist Olive Ellzey Leonhardt. Mr. Leonhardt had served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy during the Second World War. They lived in New Orleans, LA and later in Darien, CT where Mr. Leonhardt was the project manager for the Titan Group construction division. After the death of her husband in 1992, Mrs. Leonhardt returned to Charleston where she was actively involved as a docent for the Heyward Washington and Manigault houses. Mrs. Leonhardt is survived by two sons: Alexander F. Leonhardt, Jr. of New Orleans, LA and W. Aiken Leonhardt of Stamford, CT; a brother, S.Stoney Simons of Philadelphia and Charleston; and a sister, Harriet Porcher Simons Williams of Durham, NC and Charleston. A third son, Albert Simons Leonhardt, and her brother, Albert Simons, Jr., predeceased her. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Planned Parenthood of S.C., Inc., 2712 Middleburg Drive, Columbia, SC 29204, or Charleston Museum, 360, Meeting Street, Charleston, S.C., 29403. ARRANGEMENTS BY J. HENRY STUHR, INC., DOWNTOWN CHAPEL, Charleston, SC.