Obituary from the Lebanon Daily News Sunday, April 9, 2000 J. Leroy Arnold J. Leroy Arnold, 103, of ManorCare Health Center, Lebanon, died of natural causes Friday, April 7, 2000, in the home. Born June 16, 1896, in Lebanon, he was a son of the late William J. and Elizabeth M. Steckbeck Arnold. He earned a teaching degree from West Chester Normal School and taught for a year at Hebron Grammar School. In 1917, he entered World War I as a member of the motor pool in the signal corps. Once armistice was signed, he returned to Hebron to teach. He then entered the University of Pennsylvania where he earned a B.A. in biology. He taught for three years at Doylestown High School in Bucks County. In 1926 he moved to California, entered the University of Southern California, and earned a masters of arts in marine biology. He taught science in the University High School, West Los Angeles, for 33 years until his retirement in 1959. He was a world traveler and worked as a ranger naturalist in Glacier National park, where he met and shook hands with the vacationing President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his family. He lived in California until 1986, when he returned to Lebanon. He was also a member of the Lebanon VFW. He received the French Legion of Honor Medal in June 1988. Surviving are several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by sisters Stella M. Seyfert, Marie Arnold, Hilda Allwein and Alice Arnold, and brothers Raphael, William, Moses and C. Cyril Arnold. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Holy Cross Cemetery, preceded by a viewing from 9-9:45 at Thompson Funeral Home, 126 S. Ninth St., Lebanon. Nancy Allwein Nebiker nnebiker@bellatlantic.net