Toni Leonetti

Love And Light Always

Let me try to share pictures from way back. I was a Brownie, and that is my brother, Mike. I don't know what we're making. Toni was always gentle, an angel. Mimi Marylon Moore Routh

I lived on Thelma Drive, several doors down from the Leonettis, from about 1946. One day I teased Toni on the Longfellow School playground. She was about two years younger. Immediately, she turned aside, went within, made the sign of the cross and was probably praying a Hail, Mary! She was a baby, and she already knew to do this! Boy did I feel terrible! . . . I took the inquiry class and was baptized Catholic 25 years later at Old Saint Mary's in San Francisco, largely owing to that one...

Rosie, this is absolutely beautiful. Your mother was truly joyful. Through her life she inspired greatness in so many. What a role model you have in her. And what a role model Naia will have in you. Love you muches.

The Leonetti family where are neighbors while growing up in Bakersfield. Toni was always a delight to be around while visiting her older sisters. I did not know her as an adult but what a wonderful life she made for herself.
Libby King Murrell