Leonard 'Leo' Michael Pinna was born to Frank Michael Pinna and Nancy June (Finazzo) Pinna and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Leonard and Kathleen Rae (Kroetch) Pinna (first marriage for both) were married at Church of the Valley, Stevens Creek Blvd. in Santa Clara in 1972
To show how we choose familiar patterns: Kathy attended Church of the Valley with her family when she was a child, and her mother Marian Joyce (Benning) Kroetch lived in a retirement community across from the church before she died.
During their marriage they had one child Daniel J Pinna, and then divorced in July 1981. Kathy never re-married, and Leonard went on to marry twice more.
Disco, polyester, Nixon and Watergate, equal rights, the "new right", the rise of terrorism . . . oh what a decade. Not much was resolved but a lot happened!
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