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Home Town New Orleans, LA and Detroit, MI.
Last Address Elmore John Leonard, Jr. Born: 11-Oct-1925 Birthplace: New Orleans, LA Died: 20-Aug-2013 Location of death: Bloomfield Township, MI
Date of Passing Aug 20, 2013
Location of Interment Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery - Detroit, Michigan
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SK3 Elmore John Leonard, Jr. Seabee, U.S. Navy 1943-1946
Elmore Leonard Born: 11-Oct-1925
Birthplace: New Orleans, LA
Died: 20-Aug-2013
Location of death: Bloomfield Township, MI
In 1943, at the age of 17, Leonard graduated from The University of Detroit High School, and tried to join the Marines, but was rejected because of poor vision. He was subsequently drafted and assigned to the Seabees, the fighting construction battalion of the United States Navy. He served for a little more than a year and a half in the Admiralty Islands and the Philippines before returning home in January of 1946. He was assigned to a ship for six and a half months and was discharged from the Navy in June of that year.
Elmore Leonard was the author of numerous westerns and hard-boiled crime novels. Leonard grew up in Detroit and served in the US Navy before attending the University of Michigan. Friends called him "Dutch", a nickname that somehow stuck on Leonard from childhood, named for a pitcher with the Washington Senators, Emil "Dutch" Leonard. He married in 1949, and eventually fathered five children. He began supporting his increasingly large family by writing advertising copy, mostly for Chevrolet. In his spare time he wrote Westerns, but they did not bring in enough money to live on. In 1951, Leonard was ready to quit the ad business and concentrate on writing full-time, but his agent talked him out of it. After the success of the Paul Newman's dramatization of Leonard's Hombre, he finally quit his day job. See bio.
Funeral: Navy officers in white dress uniforms conducted a "farewell to arms" flag presentation ceremony and played "Taps" on a bugle for Leonard, a Navy veteran of World War II.
1946-1950, University of Detroit Mercy
FromYear 1946
ToYear 1950
College University of Detroit Mercy
Major Majored in English and Philosophy
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Best Friends The University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) is a private, Roman Catholic co-educational university in Detroit, Michigan, United States, affiliated with the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) and the Sisters of Mercy. Antoine M. Garibaldi, Ph.D., is the president. With origins dating from 1877, it is the largest Roman Catholic university in Michigan. UDM is one of the twenty-eight member Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities in the United States. Located across three campuses in Detroit, the school offers more than a hundred academic degrees and programs of study, including liberal arts, clinical psychology, business, dentistry, education, law, engineering, architecture, nursing and allied health professions.
Elmore Leonard is listed as one of the University's many distinguished alumni.
Other Memories In 1946 Leonard enrolled in the University of Detroit and majored in English and Philosophy, graduating in 1950.
