His mother taught in a one-room school house and recognized that her son was a whiz in math and started saving money to send Leo to college - which was a good thing because he hated doing farm chores and couldn’t wait to shake the cow manure off his shoes and see what the big city had to offer. In 1938, at the tender age of 16, Leo headed off to the University of Minnesota and graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1942. He immediately joined the naval academy and attended the new Navy Supply School at Harvard University. Upon learning this, his mother commented that she had wasted the $500 in tuition fees for college since the scholarly Leo was likely to be one of the first people killed in battle. Leo served as Lieutenant Commander aboard the transport ship USS U. S. Grant (AP-29) in the Pacific Ocean. After the war, Leo attended graduate school at the University of Michigan, earning his MBA in 1947. That year he started work as an accountant at Arthur Andersen LLP in Chicago, received his CPA in 1949, and moved to Field Enterprises in 1952. He started as controller in the corporate division and worked his way up the ranks, culminating with his being named Senior Vice President of Field Enterprises. In 1979, Leo semi-retired and became a part-time professor of accounting at DePaul University. He retired from DePaul in 1991.
During his time in the Navy, Leo was stationed in Seattle, where he met and fell in love with Ann Lombard, the daughter of a Navy physician. They were married in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 1, 1948. Leo and Ann had eight children and moved to Winnetka, Illinois in 1952. They lived in several different locations in Winnetka and Wilmette until 2007 when they moved into Westminster Place in Evanston. Leo and Ann were devout Catholics who loved to walk, dance, play Bridge, and travel (which usually included walking, dancing, playing Bridge, and going to Mass).
Ann was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2005 and passed away in 2011.
Beloved husband of the late Ann Newcombe nee Lombard; loving father of Raymond, M.D. (Sally), Richard (Carole), Robert (Debbie), Jerome (Kirsti), Mary Ann (Chuck) Veldman, John (Frances), Margaret Mary (Daniel) Sugrue and the late Douglas (Carolyn) Newcombe;
Dear grandfather of Melissa; Jack and Sara; Laura; Courtney, Peter, Julie, and Katherine; Eric and Annie; Jessica, Patricia, and Andrew Veldman; Jonah; Kevin, Vivian, and Sean Sugrue
Proud great grandfather of Scott and Lillian; Elizabeth and many nieces and nephews.
Caring brother of Lila, the late Marian, Howard, Francis, and Jane.
VISITATION: 4:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Friday, January 2, 2015 TIME PENDING at Donnellan Family Funeral Services, 10045 Skokie Boulevard, Skokie, Illinois 60077
FUNERAL MASS: 10:00 a.m. Saturday, January 3, 2015 at Saints Faith, Hope & Charity Church, 191 Linden Street, Winnetka, Illinois 60093
INTERMENT: Saturday, January 3, 2015 at Calvary Cemetery, 301 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illinois 60202
INFO: (847)675-1990 or www.donnellanfuneral.com
Source: Donnellan Funeral Homes, http://www.donnellanfuneral.com/?pagetype=obitlink&obit_id=1477227
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