GAGNE

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Friday, July 30, 2010 at 05:31:34 :

Independent Journal
Wednesday, December 19, 1973
Page 4

LEON GAGNE

Funeral for Leon Gagne, Bay Area bonsai expert of Strawberry, is Friday at 1 p.m. at Russell and Gooch Funeral Home in Mill Valley.

Gagne, 79, was found dead last Friday at his home at 50 Rancho Drive.

A native of San Francisco, he lived in Marin County for 19 years. In San Francisco he had owned a nursery founded by his father and had studied bonsai under a Japanese tutor. When he closed the nursery in 1955, he moved to Marin and began devoting most of his time to a bonsai business in his home.

His trees and landscaping can be seen in many Marin homes and yards.

Gagne was a member of the San Francisco Camera Club, the California Nurserymen’s Association and the Historical Railroad Society.

He attended the First Church of Christian Science in Belvedere.

No closely related family members survive him.

Friends may also call at the funeral chapel after 9 a.m. Thursday.