Memorial services for Malcolm Leroy Lenington, 57, Phoenix, Ariz., will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Botomier Funeral Home in Phoenix, with cremation and interment to follow in Phoenix.

Mr. Lenington died Sunday in St. Luke's Hospital in Phoenix. He was a Jefferson County native and a former resident of Peoria.

Mr. Lenington was born in Jefferson County Oct. 8, 1924, the son of Neil and Hildred (Fairchild) Lenington.

Survivors include his wife, Lou Lenington; his father and stepmother, Neil and Nola Lenington of Belle Rive; his stepfather, Albert Roberts of Waltonville; one son, Larry Lenington of Tueson, Ariz.; two daughters, Mrs. Hilda Lipe of Washington, Ill., and Linda Benedict of Peoria; two brothers, Nolan Lenington of Mt. Vernon and Neal Lenington of Mitchellsburg, KY,; one sister, Mrs. Audrey Merriman of Creve Coeur and six grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his mother and one granddaughter.

Source: Mt. Vernon Register News
Date: Jan. 1982
Submitted by: Rosemary Newell Atkins