Madgesdiq
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Post by Madgesdiq on Jan 31, 2004 11:26:18 GMT -5
Robert "Gueese" Leonardo, 33, of Scotch Plains died Friday, January 23 in injuries sustained in an auto accident that occurred in New Providence.
An attorney with the law firm Tompkins, McGuire, Wachenfeld and Barry of Newark since 1996, Mr. Leonardo became a partner in 2001. Previously, he had been a clerk with the firm and a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Lawrence Weiss, Superior Court of New Jersey.
Mr. Leonard was a member of the Union County and New Jersey State Bar associations.
He was a 1992 graduate of Georgetown University and a member of its Alumni Rugby Association. He earned his law degree from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1995.
Born in Fall River, Mass., he lived in Washington, D.C., West Orange and Linden before moving to Scotch Plains three years ago.
Surviving are his wife, Kimberly; a son, Robert; a daughter, Rhiannon; his mother, Alcina; brother, Luiz Jr., and sisters, Suzanne Thibert and Maria Pacheco.
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Post by showcase on Jan 31, 2004 15:35:26 GMT -5
My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and those who knew him. An untimely death is always difficult, and it cannot be harder than when it leaves young children fatherless or motherless.
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