![]() ![]() Throughout his life, Leo was active in civic and social organizations, among them Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc., Lions Club International, NAACP, El Paso Black Chamber of Commerce, Hampton University Alumni Association, and El Paso Center for Children. While Leo remained in El Paso after his retirement from education, he and Avice relocated to San Antonio in 2012. The Ysleta Independent School District in El Paso benefited from Leo's talents as a teacher and assistant principal at Bel Air High School, and principal at Bel Air Junior High School and Ranchland Hills Middle School. After an additional 20 years of active duty, Leo retired from the Army and settled in El Paso, Texas, embarking on a career in education that lasted from 1970 to 1994. Leo's military career took him and his family both stateside and abroad. ![]() He became part of the Army's prolonged desegregation efforts when he and nine other lieutenants from his unit in Germany exchanged places with ten white lieutenants in Oxford, England. Leo married his college sweetheart, Avice Hill, in 1951. Upon graduation in 1950, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Leo returned to Virginia, completed his senior year of high school in one semester, and enrolled at Hampton Institute. He was discharged in 1946 after the war ended. He served in the Pacific Theater in the 1312th Engineer General Service Regiment. Leo had not yet graduated high school when he was drafted into the U.S. Born on August 1, 1924, Leo was the third of four sons born to James and Edna Bell (Haliburton) Pleasants of Brownsburg, Virginia. ![]() Lieutenant Colonel Leo Pleasants, USA, Retired, age 95, passed away Thursday, Novemin San Antonio, Texas. ![]()
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