Steven Albert Steve Lenard

Steven Albert ‘Steve’ Lenard, surrounded by his family, passed away on Thursday February 12, 2015 after a courageous battle with cancer. A memorial service will be held at Loch Arbor Baptist Church at 2:00PM, on Wednesday February 18, 2015, with visitation Tuesday beginning at 5:00PM. Rev. Andy Myrick and Rev. William Sikes will be officiating. Interment will be at Loch Arbor Baptist Church Cemetery, under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home, Sterlington Road, Monroe. Steve was born on August 31, 1951, in Monroe, LA to William Prentice Sr. and Dorothy Robinson Lenard. He spent his childhood in Natchitoches, LA, attended Natchitoches Central High School and was an integral part in helping his family to establish one of the first and most successful A&W Drive-In restaurants in Louisiana. After graduation he followed a passion, learned from his father, for training thoroughbred racehorses. This profession would take him as far away as Detroit and Boston and bring him as close as Shreveport and Lafayette, but home was always Swartz, LA or better known to those closest as, The Farm. He retired from The Sport in 1995 and returned Home where he raised beef cattle, baled hay and touching back on his childhood experiences, began a small family owned restaurant. Many who read this will remember that big smile and wave from the kitchen of Lenard’s Homecookin’. Steve was preceded in death by his father, William Prentice Lenard Sr. He is survived by his wife of 37 years, Donna; son, Allen P. Lenard; daughter, Lynette; mother, Dorothy Robinson Lenard; aunt, Norma Lyles; brother William Prentice ‘Pete’ Lenard Jr. and wife Jan; sister, Paula Michelle ‘Mitch’ Lenard; favorite niece Laura Leigh Lenard; 3 grandchildren, Sadi, Makin and Hannah and his close friends, H. B. Johnson Jr., Tush Spence and his brothers, Charles Hogan, Bob Smith, Lynn Soileau, Joe Duhon, Gerard Melancon, C.A Lowe and James Cook.Pallbearers will be Allen P. Lenard, Peter E. Watzek, Blake Swain, Cletis Dugas, Jack Holmes, William ‘Pete’ Lenard, Tush Spence and Charles Hogan. The family was truly blessed to have had the best of medical professionals and would like to extend a special thank you to Julia Martin, RN and her staff at Ouachita Healthcare and Rehabilitation in Monroe, LA; Donna Billings Lee, RN of Benton, LA; Dr. Anil Nanda, M.D. and the neurology professionals at University Health in Shreveport, LA; Brenda Malone at LifeCare Pierremont in Shreveport, LA and Diane Wege and her staff at TIRR in Houston, TX.The family asks that in lieu of flowers, that donations be made to the Loch Arbor Baptist Church Children’s Fund.Online Registry/Condolences: www.mulhearnfuneralhome.comMulhearn Funeral HomeSterlington RoadMonroe, LA