Gabrielle Leonardi

Gabrielle Leonardi established the John F. Leonardi Scholarship in 1983 in memory of her late husband. John F. Leonardi, from Highland Park, Illinois, was a realtor and real estate developer on the North Shore for some 50 years. John and Gabrielle had six children: John, Donna, Lois, Marianne, Virginia, and Teresa. Their daughter, Lois Pence, is a retired faculty member at UW-Oshkosh. John passed away on July 1, 1981 at the age of 73 and Gabrielle passed away on July 21, 2005 at the age of 97.