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Leslie Courts Obituary
Leslie W. Courts, Sr., 84, passed away on December 29, 2020, at the University of Toledo Medical Center.
Wake service will be Tuesday, January 19, 2021, at 11:00 a.m. followed by funeral services at 12:00 p.m. at Dale-Riggs Funeral Home Chapel, interment Historic Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Tom Schoen
June 5, 2021
I was working at the Lucas County Early Vote Center (EVC) in downtown Toledo on Earth Day, April 22, 2014. To commemorate Earth Day, Owens Community College, with satellite classrooms down the hall from the EVC, offered each building visitor a free blue spruce tree seedling.
I took my poly-bagged seedling, a mere wisp about ten inches long, home in my briefcase. I was tempted not to plant it assuming that I'd be long gone before it grew to any worthwhile height.
I remember Les, with whom I worked at the EVC in previous years, talking about his mature blue spruce tree, so I phoned him asking for advice. Should I bother planting my seedling?
Les was emphatic saying that it would grow fast just as his blue spruce tree did. So, I plunked down my promising seedling into my backyard soil--hoping for rapid growth.
Well, thanks to Les's encouragement and Mother Nature, I now have a beautiful blue spruce tree growing like crazy. It would make a great live or cut Christmas tree.
I've named my tree: "The Leslie W. Courts, Sr. Tree".
In this photo I'm toasting the memory of that great guy.
Tom Schoen, Birdie Drive, Toledo, Ohio
Tim Ramer
January 26, 2021
I worked with Les at Dana Corporation's Spicer Transmission Division on Bennett Road in the '70's and 80's. Always a great guy! So easy to talk to. My condolences to his entire extended family.
Rev. Dr. Janice Carson Hearn
January 18, 2021
Deacon Leslie was a wonderful person!! Very, kind, dedicated and a faithful, devoted husband to my friend Alice. What a model as a man of God. He will be greatly missed!!!
John Scott
January 16, 2021
Les: OUR double-play baseball at age 13 still enriches my soul: RIP ... see you on the other side. John Scott
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Mattie Bacon
January 15, 2021
He was a great deacon in our church for a while, and a good friend to have.
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