Edward LeBlanc

Wreaths Across America
Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery
Owings Mills, MD 12-14-2024

My dad was always down for adventures and travel and I definitely inherited those genes. He loved visiting family, meeting new people, helping others, and eating good food. We especially shared a love of breakfast any time of day as well as southern food! So many of my memories of him are from our adventures together (DC, Block Island, roadtrip from MD to Vermont, even the Alamo) and going out to breakfast. He was also known to spoil pets rotten. Give me 5. more. minutes.

Instead of flowers, Ed would suggest fishing. He loved matching the hatch!

Ed walked into my place of employment, SatoTravel on 8/25/1987. We were closing out ticket office, and he needed transportation to return home. (Ft. Drum. NY. He had completed a 3 month training program (PLDC) to add to list his military qualifications. Rather than walk away, since the last flight had departed BWI, he looked at me, asked my name, and the rest is history. We married on 9/15/1990.
Rest easy my love. I miss you with every heartbeat.

I have many memories of Ed "Dad". There was a constant thread amongst most all of those memories. That thread was, Ed would give you the shirt off his back, he would change a tire in the rain for a stranger, he would sacrifice things he wanted to get done just so he could help make sure you get help doing whatever it was that you needed. He was a servant solider. He wanted best for those around him and he worked to lift you up. He'd give you his last dollar if you needed it, even if he didn't know where his next one would come from. We will celebrate his life soon, until then..."Outta Here!"

Ed was one of the best soldiers I had the privilege of serving with on Iraq on our deployment. He was always good for a laugh. One time I ran into him a Golden Corral he ran over and gave me a big kiss and hug. I love this man always

Ed once told me about a vistor to his parents in Vermont that gave him a copy of a National Geographic magazine. Ed looked through that magazine as a kid in Vermont, and decided than and there that he wanted to see the world, to see people and places so different and new that are different than the Vermont home he knew then.

Miss you Ed. You did good to everybody you came in contact with.

Will miss ur laugh. Love u dad.

Rip buddy. Slow hand salute. Miss camping and hunting together in Western md

I will remember Ed as being a kind and soft spoken person. My late husband and I shared many delightful Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings with Ed and Donna at Erik and Julia´s home. I am saddened at his passing, but feel privileged to have known this good man. My condolences to his entire family. He will be missed.