Dr. Leon D Fiedler

Leon Fiedler received his early education, elementary school and high school in the city of his birth. After completion of High School in 1947 he entered the military, first the Army Air Corps, then the US Air Force, was stationed in multiple locations in the Pacific theater.

While participating in Military Medical Air Evacuation flights with the US Air Force he met his future wife 1st Lt. Wilma P. Mercer, an Air Force Flight Nurse from Eubank, Kentucky. They were married on 13 December 1951 in Honolulu Hawaii, shortly before his return to Continental US to finish his Military assignment and in preparation to return to continue his education. Wilma joined him at his state side station a few months later.

He separated from his Air Force in September 1951 to enter his Pre-Dental education at the University of Wisconsin, at Madison. Two years later they moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he was accepted to Dental School at Marquette University and where their first son, Hans Karl Fiedler was born in 1955.

Leon Fiedler graduated with a Doctorate Degree in 1959 and entered the US. Army Dental Corps as a 1st Lt., he had attained the military rank of Master (E7) Sergeant prior to his commissioning. As a Dental Officer he was assigned to Letterman General Hospital. While stationed at Letterman, Wilma presented him with their second son, Kirk Dean Fiedler.

Over the next 14 years his duties in the Military carried him and his family to multiple states and overseas countries. While stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in the spring of 1973 he was offered the Chairmanship of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department with the University of Louisville, School of Dentistry. In September of 1973, he and his family separated from the Military to enter academic life with that institution as Full Professor and Chairman of the Department. He served the University of Louisville in that capacity and a short period as Asst. Dean of Hospital Dental Programs until 1994.

On retirement from that institution Wilma and he retired to Indian River Colony Club, Melbourne, Florida.

His parents, Herbert and Ethel Fiedler preceded him in death.

He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Wilma Fiedler; his sons Hans Fiedler and Kirk Fiedler; grandchildren Amber, Christine, and Kirk Ryan; great-grandchildren Ruby and Stone; sister Lois J. Fiedler/Levesconte of San Jose, Calif.

Funeral Services will be Friday, November 4, 2016 at Arch L. Heady at Resthaven at 2 p.m. followed by interment at Resthaven Memorial Park. Friends and family are welcome to gather an hour prior to services at the funeral home.