Angelo Joseph Leoni

Angelo Joseph Leoni Physician A longtime Petaluma resident and a Sonoma County doctor for 60 years, Dr. Angelo Joseph Leoni died at his home on July 7, 2014 after a brief illness.|

Angelo Joseph Leoni

Physician

A longtime Petaluma resident and a Sonoma County doctor for 60 years, Dr. Angelo Joseph Leoni died at his home on July 7, 2014 after a brief illness. He was 93.

Born in San Francisco, Leoni was raised by his mother until she became seriously ill. He was then taken in by several different foster families before he was admitted to St. Vincent’s School for Boys in San Rafael in 1934. From there, he transferred to St. Ignatius High School in San Francisco, before entering Creighton University Medical School in Omaha, Neb.

He met his wife, Tressa Patricia McCarthy, in Nebraska and they married in 1947. The couple eventually headed to California, settling in Forestville before moving to Petaluma, where he set up a medical practice in their home at 14 Sixth St.

“I wanted to be in a small town, but I didn’t want to be the only doctor on call,” said Leoni in a 2011 interview with Argus-Courier columnist Harlan Osborne.

In the 1960s, he and Dr. George Flynn opened an office in the Corfu Building on Keller Street and several years later moved to a new office complex on B Street, where he and Dr. Harold Brown shared offices.

Of the couples’ 10 children, six entered the medical profession, two became attorneys, one is a banker and another an analyst.

He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Tressa Patricia McCarthy Leoni; his children, Patrick Angelo Leoni of Sonoma, Marguerite Mary Leoni, Esq. of Kentfield, Michael Kelly Leoni of Hanford, Charles Joseph Leoni, Esq. of Petaluma, Angela Josephine Leoni of Petaluma, James Francis Leoni of Petaluma, Peter Vincent Leoni of Petaluma, Mary Patricia Leoni of San Rafael, Giovanni Giuseppi Leoni of Redwood City; 27 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

A rosary service will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 10, at St. Vincent de Paul Church, 35 Liberty St. A funeral will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, July 11, at St. Vincent School for Boys, 1 St. Vincent Drive, San Rafael.

In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to Angelo Joseph Leoni, M.D. Education Scholarship Fund for St. Vincent School for Boys, c/o Mr. Kent Eagleson, 1 St. Vincent Drive, San Rafael 94903.

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