Services for Leonard John Sanders, age 92 of Irwinton, will be held at 11:00 AM Monday, January 20, 2014 in the chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Dublin Memorial Gardens. Mr. Norman Jarrard will officiate. The family will receive friends from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM Sunday at Townsend Brothers Funeral Home. Mr. Sanders died Friday, January 17, 2014. Mr. Sanders was a World War II Navy veteran. He was formerly employed as a carpenter and brick mason with Griffin Pipe Company and Garbutt Construction. Mr. Sanders was a member of Mt. Olive Primitive Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, Warren Sanders and Dora Collins Sanders, twin brother, Deonard Sanders, and brother Julian Sanders. Survivors include his wife of sixty six years, Lurline Helton Sanders, of Irwinton; daughters, JoAnn (Don) Minton, of Jacksonville, NC, Sharon (Ed) Bobbitt, of Raleigh, NC; grandchildren, Rob Minton, of Wilmington, NC, Patrick (Annett) Minton, of Glens Falls, NY, Sarah B. (Phillip) Roop, of Asheville, NC, Anna Bobbitt, and Dayton Bobbitt, both of Raleigh, NC; great grandchildren, Christophe Minton, and Marianna Minton, both of Glens Falls, NY; brothers, Leroy (Dale) Sanders, of Milledgeville, Horace Sanders, of Irwinton; sisters, Mildred (Cecil) Woodard ,of Dublin, Mable McDonald, of Moultrie; sister-in-law, Shelby Sanders, of Dublin. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Serenity Hospice, 520 Hillcrest Parkway, Dublin, GA, 31021.