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Ryan Dr. Elizabeth Leonard December 29, 2019 Elizabeth Leonard Ryan was born June of 1957. She passed away at VCU health center in Richmond, Va., on December 29, 2019, after a seven-month battle with cancer. She was a satisfied, outgoing child with lots of abilities consisting of playing piano as well as violin, as well as acting in theatre manufacturings. Elizabeth volunteered with Animal Aid as a teen and became a lifelong advocate and also advocate of gentle reasons. Elizabeth was a talented mathematician. She was valedictorian of her high institution graduating class at Cave Spring High School in Roanoke, Va. She took place to Roanoke College, learning maths and was valedictorian of her course of 1979. Elizabeth started an actuary occupation with Shenandoah Life Insurance Co. after university. Effective, she followed her life’s calling as well as was approved to the School of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. After receiving her DVM level in 1987, she relocated to Newport News as well as operated at Deer Park Animal Hospital where she met her fiancé, Patrick Ryan through his pet dog shar-pei. She later on established Seaford Veterinary Medical Center in Yorktown, Va. She was a dazzling, caring vet that dealt with every pet as if it were her own, and every customer as a friend. Elizabeth and also Patrick Ryan were wed in Salem, Va., in 1988 as well as had 2 youngsters, Dana as well as Sean. Assisting advertise Autism recognition, Elizabeth headed the Special Education Advisory Committee for York County School Division till her kid’s college graduation. Elizabeth was really associated with Women’s Missionary Union at Ivy Memorial Baptist Church. She was on the Board of Directors for Mutts with a Mission, Inc. which supplies solution dogs to Wounded Warriors. She was also a board participant of the Peninsula Veterinary Association. Elizabeth is survived by her hubby, Patrick Ryan; her child, Sean Ryan; and also a little girl, Dana Ryan Kizer as well as her spouse, John Kizer. She is additionally survived by her moms and dads, Dan and Virginia Leonard; sis and brother-in-law, Peggy as well as Wayne Clark, and also caring loved ones of the Ryan, Leonard, Smith, Masters, Kilgore, Iwinski, Camitta, Miller, and also Durham households. The family members will obtain site visitors at Amory Funeral Home in Yorktown, Va., at 11 a.m. on Friday, January 3, 2020, with solution adhering to in the funeral chapel church at 1 p.m. Burial will happen the complying with day, Saturday, January 4, 2020, at 1 p.m. at Sherwood Memorial Park in Salem, Va. Services will be performed by the Rev. Matthew Dupuy.