GEORGE FRANCIS LESICA 1915-2010
During the 1930s, Mr. Lesica worked with the Civilian Conservation Corps and Michigan Department of Forestry planting trees. In the 1980s, he was involved in destroying trees to save Wolf Road Prairie because "trees are the enemy of prairies but that didn't make it any easier for him to do," according to his son Peter.
He died January 4, 2010, at age 94. He was born and raised in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, one of eight children in a logging town. He lived through the Depression and enlisted in the Army in 1941, where he joined the Quartermasters Corps, serving at various posts around the United States before his discharge as a captain in 1946.
he later became a wholesale buyer for Ace Hardware.
A Man Who Lived Through a Lot. The Greatest Generation.
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