HEALTH REPORT ON LEATRICE YOKAY GREASER, CLASS OF 1950

 

          LEATRICE AND LATE HUSBAND BOB GREASER 

     IN OTHER PHOTO SONNY AND SATCH BOTH HAVE PASSED AWAY AND TONY EATES STILL LIVES IN FAIRMONT WITH WIFE LUCY ALTHOUGH TONY IS DEALING WITH DIFFICULT HEALTH ISSUES

Leatrice Yokay Greaser “ill and being taken care of”

 

Jen, daughter of Patrica Urban Utz, Class of 1950, tipped me off about Leatrice Yokay
Greaser’s health situation.

Jen posted to me:

“ I know Lea had a few people dropping in, but Mom realized she doesn’t have any contact info.

“Mom connected with someone. Lea is ill and being taken care of.

“Mom is not in touch with Lea or whoever it taking care of her.”

Patricia Urban Utz’ children are rotating time with Patty, who still lives in Springfield, New Jersey, not far from the Naval Academy where Patty and husband John Stephen Utz first met each other at a Navy Academy exchange weekend designed to get Navy Academy and West Point people of both genders together.

Patty’s husband, West Point graduate John Stephen Utz, passed away January 2, 2023. He served in the military. He graduated from Glen Burnie High School in 1950, which is where Joan, who lives with me in our Tallmadge, Ohio condo these days, spent much of her life before we got together via Silver Singles online dating service.

John met Patty during an exchange weekend at the Naval Academy. They were married 66 years.

“Nobody” in her family still is alive, Leatrice told me when I visited her in Fairmont.

Her brother, John Yokay, Jr., passed away in January 2022. Their sister, Patty Yokay Maddox, Class of 1948, passed away in 2020.

“Carolina and Monongah High are my best memories,” Leatrice said.

Leatrice was born in 1932, 18 days after I was born.

Leatrice and Patty Urban Utz, also Class of 1950, phoned each other regularly. Patty took care of her ailing husband, John Utz, a West Point graduate who retired as a Lt. Colonel, till he passed away in January 2023. John flew helicopters in combat for two tours in Vietnam before he met Patty after his 1950 high school graduation.

Leatrice took care of her husband, Bob Greaser, till he passed away. And Bob’s mother, too.

I still call Leatrice “The Kathryn Grayson of Monongah High” because Lea’s singing voice at MHS reminded me of the singing actress in movies. Leatrice had her own show on Fairmont radio WMMS where she sang with Mary Jo Forte, her friend and another Monongah High graduate who moved to Las Vegas area later, as her pianist.

I’m sure Lions everywhere hope for the best for Monongah High’s Kathryn Grayson. St. Peter can wait to hear her fantastic singing voice.