Lloyd Lorenzo Leech, Jr. (Brigadier General, USA, Ret.) of San Antonio, Texas, died on March 23, 2018 at the age of 98. Born in Hingham, Massachusetts on December 12, 1919, he was predeceased by his parents Colonel Lloyd L. Leech (USMC, Ret.) and Violet Beeton Leech, his wife of 71 years, Virginia Stiles Leech, and his son, Lloyd L. Leech, III. He is survived by his daughter Jane L. Brooke and husband Colonel George M. Brooke III (USMC, Ret.) of Lexington, Virginia, and son Colonel James J. Leech (USA, Ret.) and wife Maria Carmen of Corpus Christi, Texas. He is also survived by ten grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.
General Leech graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1942. He served in World War II and the Korean War and earned a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois between the wars. He was also a graduate of the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, KS and the National War College. He served as the Commandant of Cadets at VMI from 1966 to 1967, and concluded his thirty-year Army career in 1972 as Assistant Commandant of the United States Army Air Defense School at Fort Bliss, Texas. General Leech’s personal decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters, the Bronze Star, the Army Commendation Medal, and the Air Force Commendation Medal.
Services will be held in the Chapel at the Army Residence Community in San Antonio at 10 am Friday, April 20th. Interment with full military honors will be at 1:30 pm that day at Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made to the VMI Foundation, P.O. Box 932, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA 24450.
