Leonard Roger Dearman (1919-1984)

Leonard Roger Dearman was born on 31 August 1919 in Mississippi. He died on 4 April 1984 in Quitman, Clarke, Mississippi. He is buried in the Crossroads Cemetery in Clarke, Mississippi.

The Clarke County Tribune, 12 Apr 1984
   Services for Leonard R. Dearman were held Saturday at 2 p.m. in Cross Roads Methodist Protestant Church with the Rev. James Parson, the Rev. Mike Hawley and the Rev. Harold Llar officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery. Wright's Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
   Dearman, 64, Enterprise, died Wednesday in H.C. Watkins Memorial Hospital.
   Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Hazel M. Dearman, Enterprise; three sons, Jerry Dearman, Samuel Dearman and J.L. Dearman, all of Austin, Texas; four step-sons, Daniel E. Smith, Rose Hill; Lewis Howard Smith, James Bell Smith and Lewis Ray Smith, all of Enterprise; a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, Meridian; five step-daughters, Mrs. Hazel Webster, Lauderdale; Mrs. Sylvia Rowell, Heidelberg; Mrs. Barbara Varner, Pachuta; Mrs. Bonnie Jean Carlisle and Miss Mary Smith, both of Enterprise; three brothers, Leo Dearman and William Dearman, both of Quitman, and Roy Dearman, Hattiesburg; a sister, Mrs. Ruby Lee Fleming, Quitman; 31 grandchildren and two-great-grandchildren.

PARENTS
Mack Lee Dearman
Sophia Ira Bell Flowers

SPOUSES
Myrtle L. Taylor
Hazel M.

CHILDREN
Jerry Dearman
J. L. Dearman
Samuel Leonard Dearman
Elizabeth Dearman
Roger Dearman

SOURCES

• 1940 census, Beat 1, Clarke, Mississippi

• The Clarke County Tribune, 12 Apr 1984