Contributions to the tribute of Leonard A. Courtney

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Thursday, March 1, 2018

Rest easy my old friend

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Marie Lewis uploaded photo(s)

Thursday, March 1, 2018

Benedict Airport, 1951 Leonard Courtney, on ground Paul Lewis, piloting the Timm N2T-1, nicknamed the Tutor Carl Baker, on the Timm

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David Vrencur lit a candle

Thursday, March 1, 2018

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Karol MacFadden lit a candle

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

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Nicole Cerami lit a candle

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

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Judy O'Neal and John posted a condolence

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Remember Lenny fondly from Vincent's Restaurant. Always charming and funny who drank wine out of a coffee cup. So sorry to hear of his death. May he rest in peace./hG75

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Bob Fanelli posted a condolence

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Lenny was a great friend and a gifted collaborated. We partnered on songs for a CD called STORIES. He was a romantic in every aspect of his life. Lenny enjoyed every phase of his life. I’m going to miss him. My condolences to his family.

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Marie Lewis posted a condolence

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

I’d like to express my condolences to Mr. Courtney’s family. I didn’t know him well, but I know what a good person he was. “Courtney”, for that’s how he became known to me, was my father’s childhood friend. They spent all their adolescent free time at Benedict Airport on Kirk Road in Bethel Township in the late 1940’s doing any of the chores necessary for maintaining the L-shaped grass runways and the six planes, a Timm, a Globe Swift, a Super Cruiser, and three Piper Cubs used by the Benedict Flight School. In exchange, Ed Black or “Blacky”, the owner or the airport would teach them to fly by grabbing one of them and saying, “Come on kid. Today you’re gonna learn to fly.” Eventually, marriage, careers, and raising families consumed their time and energy and the decades flew by until the childhood friends were both taking care of ailing loved ones. Courtney would show up with coffee and donuts (and sometimes his father) to sit on the front porch with my father and just talk. He did this every week for years, giving my father such a simply perfect respite from caring for my mother. It was in this way that I came to know Courtney. Later I found that Courtney and my father, Paul, would meet at a large open field to fly model airplanes, the pre-remote control, cable model airplanes that can make one dizzy by turning in circles until the plane’s engine ran out of fuel. They videotaped hours of this model airplane flying. I wish they could have videotaped their early days at Benedict Airport too. Rest In Peace, Courtney. And thank you for being such a good friend to my father!

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The family of Leonard A. Courtney uploaded a photo

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Leonard A. Courtney

1933 - 2018

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