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Leonard Paul Enama

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Leonard Paul Enama Veteran

Birth
Beaver Meadows, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
7 Sep 2012 (aged 89)
Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Obituary written by family and published in the Hazleton Standard Speaker included the following: Leonard Paul Enama, 89, of Drums, PA passed away on September 7, 2012 with his loving family by his side, at Hospice Community Care at Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre. Born April 28, 1923, in Beaver Meadows, PA, he was the youngest of the 12 children of the late Mamie (Zambiasi) and Lewis Enama. He graduated from Hazle Township High School in 1942 and then enlisted in the Navy. By completion of the Navy's training program located in Morehead, Kentucky he became an electrician. He served in the European Theater of War on a minelayer at the invasion of Sicily and in the Pacific Theater of War on the minesweeper, YMS-407, at Iwo Jima. Along with the crew of this wooden vessel, he survived both the battle and a typhoon. After discharge, he returned home to Pennsylvania, where he met the love of his life, Mary J. Fedor, and they married in 1947. Together they raised 4 daughters. They lived for 21 years in Levittown, PA, where he had his own electrical business and he also worked at the Naval Air Propulsion Test Center in Trenton, NJ. In 1973 the family moved to Blakeslee, PA and Leonard worked at the White Haven Center before retiring. Leonard was an avid outdoorsman and enjoyed hunting and fishing. He was handy in every aspect of the word, with an ability to fix, build, repair and restore anything imaginable. His youthful spirit and pride in his Tyrolean heritage was evident throughout his life. He ice skated and rode a bike well into his 70's and worked in his cousin's apple orchard and solved the daily cryptogram puzzle through his mid 80's. He had a love of life, great sense of humor and wonderful smile...
Obituary written by family and published in the Hazleton Standard Speaker included the following: Leonard Paul Enama, 89, of Drums, PA passed away on September 7, 2012 with his loving family by his side, at Hospice Community Care at Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre. Born April 28, 1923, in Beaver Meadows, PA, he was the youngest of the 12 children of the late Mamie (Zambiasi) and Lewis Enama. He graduated from Hazle Township High School in 1942 and then enlisted in the Navy. By completion of the Navy's training program located in Morehead, Kentucky he became an electrician. He served in the European Theater of War on a minelayer at the invasion of Sicily and in the Pacific Theater of War on the minesweeper, YMS-407, at Iwo Jima. Along with the crew of this wooden vessel, he survived both the battle and a typhoon. After discharge, he returned home to Pennsylvania, where he met the love of his life, Mary J. Fedor, and they married in 1947. Together they raised 4 daughters. They lived for 21 years in Levittown, PA, where he had his own electrical business and he also worked at the Naval Air Propulsion Test Center in Trenton, NJ. In 1973 the family moved to Blakeslee, PA and Leonard worked at the White Haven Center before retiring. Leonard was an avid outdoorsman and enjoyed hunting and fishing. He was handy in every aspect of the word, with an ability to fix, build, repair and restore anything imaginable. His youthful spirit and pride in his Tyrolean heritage was evident throughout his life. He ice skated and rode a bike well into his 70's and worked in his cousin's apple orchard and solved the daily cryptogram puzzle through his mid 80's. He had a love of life, great sense of humor and wonderful smile...


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  • Maintained by: Mary Elizabeth Relative Child
  • Originally Created by: delancey23
  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97781946/leonard_paul-enama: accessed ), memorial page for Leonard Paul Enama (28 Apr 1923–7 Sep 2012), Find a Grave Memorial ID 97781946, citing Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Slovak Cemetery, Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Mary Elizabeth (contributor 49121482).