LEONARD

Posted by Cathy on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 at 05:41:41 :

Independent Journal
Wednesday, February 21, 1979

Dr. MAURICE E. LEONARD

A memorial service for Dr. Maurice E. Leonard, 72, of Mill Valley, will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at the Chapel of St. Joseph’s Hospital, San Francisco.

Dr. Leonard died Monday in San Francisco after a series of heart attacks.

He was an internist specializing in blood diseases. He practiced medicine in San Francisco.

Leonard also was a professor of medicine at the University of California in San Francisco and a member of the staffs of the University of California Medical Center, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshall Hale Hospital and Children’s Hospital.

Leonard was a graduate of Stanford University and the Medical School of McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

He was born in Santa Barbara, Mexico, but his family returned to San Francisco when he was two years old. He had been a resident of Marin for 23 years.

Leonard was a past president of the Irwin Memorial Blood Bank and the San Francisco Peer Review Organization and was a fellow of the American College of Medicine.

He was a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians, the International Society of Hematology, the California Academy of Medicine and the French Club of San Francisco.

Leonard was a veteran of World War II.

Surviving are his wife, Mary C. Leonard; a daughter, Diana Leonard; and two sons, Richard Leonard of Mill Valley and John Leonard of Berkeley.

Private family services were held today at Alta Mesa Cemetery, Palo Alto. The family prefers that memorial contributions be made to St. Anthony’s Dining Room, P.O. Box 777, San Francisco, 94101.