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From:
TINA CONCEPCION
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Thursday, March 19, 2020
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March 14, 2020 Memorial Celebration at The Lighthouse in Winthrop Harbor, IL was everything and more than I could have asked for. Special thanks to Chuck Todd, Lenny's best friend for most of his life, for your help and support. For all of Lenny's other friends, I hold dear in my heart all the memories you shared. I will never forget all of you. Thank you.
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From:
TINA CONCEPCION
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Thursday, February 6, 2020
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This is part of an email I sent to Lenny's daughter so she would know who her father was before she was born:
...I was 21 years old, he was 24 the first time we saw each other at the grocery store we both worked at. He was on the 'night crew', I was a Checker, so he had been hearing from our co-workers that there was a checker that was Airborne and in his Army Reserve unit. The day we met, he was filling in for the Produce Dept. I can still se him...standing on the 2nd step that went up to the manager's office. There was a small hallway right next to that where I was counting down my till. 'Hey, are you the Airborne female that's in the 12th Group?' he asked. I looked up at him, with his arms crossed, kinda leaning against the wall and said, 'That's me, you must be Lenny(everyone at the grocery store called him 'Lenny').' We went on our first date a couple nights later and were inseparable from that day forward. All the workers at this grocery store were friends and did lots of things together. We were the 'It Couple' amongst our co-workers, as well as our other friends. Lenny played softball two nights a week and I kept score for one of the teams. We were on an electronic dart league with two other co-workers. We went to the store's picnics &Christmas parties, we went to barbeques & other gatherings at the Roberts' house(they were a family of 3 brothers & 2 sisters that were like a 2nd family to your dad), and being in the Army Reserves, we jumped out of airplanes together. Your father loved me like no man ever would after him. I was his first wife, he was my first real true love. Our love was so intense, that all our fights were so dramatic and painful. There was a lot of tears of anger, but also joy. Your dad told me all he ever wanted was a wife & a family. He wanted it with me. I'm not going to go on about why he divorced me. It was my youth, stupidity, and thinking I could always get him back. I hurt him deeply, and even though I was the one doing wrong, I loved him with all my heart, and the good in my life was gone. A piece of his heart had died. I spent the next 28 years trying to make the best of the 'nothing' life I was left with, and carrying that one regret - losing your father...
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