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I met Marge and Wally in 2002 when I started
attending Gaithersburg Presbyterian Church. Since then, Marge has
become one of my best friends and along with her, Wally.
Wally was a stellar father, a
loving and respectful husband, a dear friend, and sounding board for the last
13 years. I learned a lot about how an equal-partnership marriage should be
from watching both of Wally and Marge.
He was generally a serious
person but after Doreening him all these years, he teased me back this summer –
twice! Little sister Doreen can now rest in peace.
Wally and Marge have “saved”
me many hundreds of times. The most memorable Wally rescue was back in 8/23/2011
when DC area experienced an earthquake.
God blessed me in many ways that day. First, I was able to get a cell phone
signal while no one else around me did. And, of course, the first call is to
the Leaches. Next, I caught the last
Metro train from DC to Shady Grove station before
all public transportation had been shut down. And then the last and the
greatest was that Wally was able to pick me up from the Metro and take me to my
car at the Gaithersburg MARC station without a hitch.
You know you have a real friend if they pick you up
from public transportation in the middle of an earthquake! Thank God he’s a
California boy!
He will be greatly missed but
as a faithful Christian, I know he is in heaven looking down on us. We send up
loving thoughts and memories.
Amen.
See his bio on Legacy.com: Walter Dennison Leach III
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