ANNE SLESNICK

of 46 years died at 71 in January 1988. She went to work as a mortgage banker, found success in that endeavor, her son said, and devoted her life to community and family. She later married Dave Leidel, with whom she spent 10 years traveling and golfing. He, too, predeceased her.

“I told my mother as she was lying in bed over these last couple of years, and I would continue to tell her, that the person I became was because of her and my dad,” Don Slesnick said. “They demanded that I respect other people.

That I respect the United States of America. That I respect authority. I was kind of a traditional 1950s kid. I grew up, very much, not a rebel.

Not someone who took on the establishment. I believed in the establishment. I obviously had my own thoughts. I’ve tried to follow what I think is right or wrong, but it was because of them.”

His mother was an active parishioner at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in the Gables, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Junior Orange Bowl Committee, and the University of Miami Cancer Association.

Along with her best friend, the late financial executive Catherine “Kay” Fahringer, she founded both the Granada and Biltmore Women’s Golf Associations. The Coral Gables Commission declared Sept. 2, 2022, as “Anne Slesnick Leidel Day” in honor of her 100th birthday, her son said.

SURVIVORS, SERVICES

Slesnick’s survivors include her son and daughter Donald Slesnick and Luanne Recicar, eight grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.

A celebration of life will be scheduled at a later date.