JACKSON -- Funeral for businessman and former city councilman Leonard Arthur Dambach was held Sunday at Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home, with the Rev. Sam Roethemeyer officiating. Private entombment will be held later in Memorial Park Mausoleum in Cape Girardeau.

Dambach, 73, of Jackson died Friday, Aug. 28, 1998, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

He was born Sept. 18, 1924, at Fornfelt, son of Benjamin Thomas and Sophia Charlotte Siemers Dambach. He and Dolly Catherine Massa were married Sept. 1, 1951, at Jackson.

Dambach was manager at the former Bangert Auto Body and Service Center from 1960 to 1979. He then purchased the business and renamed it Jackson Auto Body. Dambach was still owner of the firm.

He was a member of Emanuel United Church of Christ, member and past commander of Altenthal-Joerns American Legion Post 158, member of Cape County Transit Board.

Dambach served on Jackson City Council 14 years, served on Jackson Planning and Zoning Board, and was a former member and past president of Jackson Optimist Club.

He served with the U.S. Army in the European Theater during World War II.

Survivors include his wife; three sons, Bryan Dambach of Denver, Colo., Mark and Terry Dambach, both of Jackson; two daughters, Mary Giddens of Little Rock, Ark., Cheryl Stadt of Arvada, Colo.; a brother, Jimmy Dambach of Lilbourn; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a brother and two sisters.