Leicester Llwellhynn "Les" Landon, DVM, FRSH, passed away on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2007. He was 86, a native of New Orleans, a resident of Baton Rouge and a former resident of Covington. A World War II veteran, he served as a lieutenant on destroyer escorts in the U.S. Navy, fighting in the Pacific Theater. He received a bachelor's degree from Southeastern Louisiana College in 1942, and a doctorate of veterinary medicine from the University of Georgia in 1950. He served on the UGA veterinary school faculty from 1951 to 1952, and opened a private veterinary practice in Covington in 1952. He retired in 2000. Dr. Landon was one of the founders of Playmakers Theater and the Krewe of Olympia in Covington. He served as a deacon and elder of Covington Presbyterian Church, and later taught Bible classes and was a member of the Living Word Church in Covington. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, the former Joyce Elsa Jackson; and three children, Leicester Landon II and his wife Deborah Schmidt, of Baton Rouge, Laurence Landon, of Richmond, Va., and Victoria Landon and her husband Dave Weilert, of Austin, Texas. Also survived by two grandsons, Laurence Landon II, of Lafayette and Leicester Landon III, of New York; and a great-grandson, Jackson Landon, of Lafayette. Preceded in death by a son, Lewis Landon IV; his parents, Lewis Landon II and Estelle Zeitvogel Landon; and brother, Lewis Landon III.

Courtesy of The Advocate, Baton Rouge, LA.