Bill Kirby Jr.: Leonard Okrie 'was such a big presence in our lives'
Len Okrie had a welcoming way with people.You could see it in his eyes.You could see it in his smile.“He did everything he set out to do in life,” Judy Horne says about this larger-than-life man who married her mother on Oct. 9, 1966.Okrie was a Major League baseball player and coach working at the old Howard & Whitaker Men’s Store as a clothing salesman in the off seasons when the late Mattie Love introduced him to Ileane Russell at the nearby […]
