July 22, 1949 �" October 11, 2012
Our dear friend Leon Lashner passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on October 11, 2012. Leon touched so many lives it's hard to know where to begin. Leon grew up in Atlanta and went to college in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he met lifelong friend Barbara Sanders. After college, Leon settled in San Francisco where he blossomed, along with the gay liberation movement of the 1970s. Leon eventually became a chiropractor, and many in the Bay Area will remember his healing hands. A great teacher once told him that we have to be able to ask the right questions before we can grow to the answers: "As a doctor, I don't pretend to have all the answers. I have over the years become very good at asking the questions." Leon reincarnated Julia Child in the kitchen, and loved life to the fullest. He eventually relocated back to Atlanta, and Boston, where he touched so many lives with his love of life, and healing nature. Leon is survived by brother Herb, daughter Hannah, soul sister Barbara Sanders, friends Jeff Mintz and Susan Brennan, and many, many admirers in the Bay Area, Atlanta, Boston, and Japan. Fly high, Leon.