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1935 - 2021
1935 - 2021
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Ed Leonard
February 11, 2025
Big brother Chuck I still miss you especially every time I come to Cleveland You were a great roll model Loved by all who new you Love your brother Ed
Mary Ann
February 11, 2025
Dear brother Charles,
Four years have passed since you've gone to Heaven! I miss you still.
Love,
Your sister
Suzanne Ondrus
February 11, 2024
I can't believe it's been three years since Uncle Charles has passed. A few weeks ago I had to drive down to Kent and this brought back a lot of memories of Uncle Charles. He had some key expressions: "a bevvy of beauties" "consequently"... I remember how he enjoyed meals with us at the train restaurant. He always charmed the waitresses. We think those genes got passed on to my youngest nephew. Uncle Charles was good at being in the present. Does anyone have a recording of his voice to share please?
Rae
March 10, 2021
Met Chuck when I took Lillian (Lori) to see him. Such a kind friendly man. Sorry for your loss. Prayers and thoughts are with you. Rae South
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Mary Ann Leonard
February 23, 2021
Charles was my big brother both in age, height and spirit. He was 12 years my senior. I remember him holding my hand while teaching me how to skip. I was six or seven when he went into the Navy. I missed him so much. He wrote me letters, first printed and then in cursive as my reading skills progressed. They were from exotic places like California, Japan and the USS Boxer, the aircraft carrier on which he served. I became an early reader because I really wanted to read his letters on my own without help. After his time in the Navy was completed, he came back home and enjoyed being on the water on Lake Erie: speed boats, sailboats and water skiing. After he married, the focus of his life became his family of seven. He liked being a Dad and loved his children very much. Charles was a kind man, a good conversationalist and a great listener, too. Aging, and Co-vid, kept him house bound, but he made the best of it, enjoying the big screen TV that one of his sons got him. He loved his dogs, the birds that flew around the bird feeders outside his window and the flowers beneath. He always ended a phone call with me by saying "Remember, big brother loves you,"as he did the day before he passed. I miss him and I will remember.
Suzanne Ondrus
February 21, 2021
Uncle Charles was always smiling. You could even hear his smile on the phone. He had a big heart. He is the only person I have ever met who has taken in homeless people. He was proud of his Irish and Slovenian roots, still remembering key Slovenian phrases! We'll miss his stories. May he rest in peace.
Ed Leonard
February 18, 2021
Charles was my big brother. A role model while I was growing up. He was in charge of making sure I kept in line!!A very kind and gentle man. Fun to be with and always gracious and charming. He loved his family very much and was loved by them in turn.
He will be missed by all.
His Brother Ed Leonard
February 18, 2021
Thank you for your brave service to our country !
The Staff of Bissler & Sons Funeral Home
February 17, 2021
Offering our deepest sympathies during this time.
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