Jerry Lerner Leinar, 78, of the Spring Hill Community of Irwin County, Georgia, died Sunday May 8, 2005, at Tift Regional Medical Center.
Funeral services will be 2:00 P.M. Tuesday May 10, 2005 at the Spring Hill Primitive Baptist Church in Irwin County. Interment will follow in the Church Cemetery. Visitation will be held Monday from 7:00 PM until 9:00 PM at the funeral home in Ocilla.
Mr. Leinar was born September 12, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York to the late Louis and Anna Fleischman Lerner. He was a former resident of Woodstock, Georgia. Mr. Leinar attended Oswego State University. He was a retired Commercial Photographer, having worked for Charter Catalogue, Inc., and the Tifton Gazette, Tifton, GA. Mr. Leinar was WW II veteran of the U.S. Army having served as a Photojournalist. He was an Artist and avid bowler. He was of the Jewish Faith and attended Spring Hill Primitive Baptist Church.
Mr. Leinar is survived by his wife: Margaret LaFaye Leinar, of Irwin Country, GA; three daughters: Denise Ring, Fitzgerald, GA, Anna Moates, Braselton, GA and Paula Garrett, Tucker, GA; five grandchildren.