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Chain, H.H.>Detlef Hans >Hans Detlaf>Leo.
Excerpts from the Fairbanks daily news. "Pioneer Fairbanksan".....Leo was born Nove. 3, 1907 in Buckley, Wash., to Hans and Ellen Donovan Schlotfeldt, as one of seven children. He was raised on a dairy farm near Enumclaw. After his school graduation in 1926, he enlisted in the U.S. Signal Corps, was assigned to the Washington Alaska Military Cable and Tel. System and stationed in Seward.
In 1929, he was transferred to Fairbanks as a Morse operator coordinating wireless radio including weather reports for early pilots including Noel Wien and Harold Gillam.
In 1931, Leo met Agnes Gladys Hering. She was working athe the Empress Theater serving ice cream. Mrs Hering allowed Leo to walk Agnes home occasionally, if accompanied by her sister.
After securing full time work with the Fairbanks Exploration Co. as a laborer on the hydraulic pipe gang, he and Agnes were married on Jan. 4, 1932.
In 1942 Leo Joined brother-in-law Eugene Rogge in the family trucking business, Sourdough Express, which Gene had purched from Agnes' father, Ed Hering. In 1977, Leo and Agnes had the great honor of serving as King and Queen Regents for Golden Days. Leo was a partner in the firm named: Denali Enterprises.
His many friends will long remember "pulling over" at his hunting and fishing cabins.
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