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- Leonard P. Dahl, 80
Loving husband, father, grandfather, uncle, friend.
Leonard P. Dahl , 80 years young, passed away at Overlook Medical Center, Summit, N.J., after a brief illness. He was called home to join his wife, Priscilla, on July 3, 2017.
Visitation is today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at Casey McCallum Rice Funeral Home. Services are 11 a.m. Saturday at Eltingville Lutheran Church on Genesee Avenue.
Leonard was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Feb. 12, 1937, to Peder and Annie Dahl. Priscilla and Leonard married on Sept. 23, 1961. In 1963 they moved to Staten Island and started a family.
Leonard was predeceased by his wife in March of 2004. He is survived by his daughter, Mary Jane Friscia; grandson, Tyler Friscia; son, Kristian, his wife Jeanette, and granddaughter, Alyssa, as well as his sister-in-law, Cynthia Pinson, and many nieces and nephews.
Leonard was a champion amateur golfer in the New York metropolitan area, having won numerous local and regional amateur tournaments as well as qualifying three times for the National Public Links. He was a member of Shore View Golf Club in Bay Ridge, LaTourette, South Shore and Esquire men's golf clubs in Staten Island. During the 80's he wrote a golf column for the Brooklyn Register.
Leonard was a longtime member of Eltingville Lutheran Church, and the Sons of Norway Nansen Lodge. In 1966 he became the Master at Bay Ridge Minerva Masonic Lodge and was presented with his 50-year member certificate in 2009 at Beacon Light Lodge, Staten Island.
He graduated Fort Hamilton High School before entering the Navy as a submariner. Upon discharge, Leonard worked as a rigger with his father Peder before embarking on a career in real estate.
In 1980, he became Citibank's first in-house real estate appraiser, working in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. He retired from Citibank in 1995 to become a freelance appraiser.
While raising his children, Leonard coached Little League and ice hockey, also officiating in these sports. In 1985, he and his daughter pioneered and introduced the Tottenville Hockey Club's Cheerleaders, who took the ice cheering at all of the club's games. He always took an active role in his children's, and grandchildren's lives, supporting them in music, sports and other endeavors.
When not working or playing golf, Leonard loved boating, fishing and spending time with family. Family card games like poker, may-I and pinochle were favorites.
Leonard will be sorely missed by many.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital or Ronald McDonald House.
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1937 - 2017 (80 år)
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