Leon Franklin Ginn was born August 21, 1933 in Tipton Ridge, Oklahoma to Walter Leroy and Alta Lavina Ginn and passed away on Friday, February 16, 2018 at Great Plains Regional Medical Center, Elk City, Oklahoma, at the age of 84 years, 5 months, and 26 days.

Leon was raised in Southeastern Oklahoma. He attended school at Cross Lane and other schools in the Russellville area. On May 19, 1954 he married Wilma Roseberry in Cordell, Oklahoma, and they made their home in Hydro, Oklahoma where he was employed as a construction worker and cement finisher for John Cornell Construction. After retirement he enjoyed gardening, fishing and spending time with his family at holidays. He also loved to listen to old, some new, country and western music, and gospel. Leon loved to sing along with his favorites and in his younger years he loved to pick and play his guitar. He loved spending time with his kids and grandkids. Leon will be remembered as a hardworking man his whole life and was a great mechanic.

Leon is survived by three sons, Robert Ginn and his wife Maria of Frisco, Colorado, Terry Ginn and his wife Jolene of Foss, Oklahoma, and Michael Ginn and his wife Krista of Wilburton, Oklahoma; two daughters, Barbra Roberts of Erick, Oklahoma, and Vonnie Bolden of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; two sisters, Sue Spradley of Stigler, Oklahoma and Betty Johnson of Lincoln, Nebraska; ten grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife; parents; one brother, Clinton Ginn; two sisters, Wanda Forester and Dena Robertson.