Former Federal Way resident Leland Levi Pease died on Saturday, June 12, 2010, in Spokane, Washington. Leland Pease was born in Vandalia, Mo., on Feb. 20, 1918. At a young age, his family moved to Chelan, Wash., where he continued to reside until he left in 1941 to attend North Central Bible College in Minneapolis, Minn. It was there he met Janet D. Bingham from Orange, N.J., whom he married in 1943.

When he and his wife Janet moved to Federal Way in the late 1940s, there was one grocery store, one gas station and a small drive-up hamburger place called the Grotto. They made Federal Way their home until 1972. In 1960, Pease opened his own business on Highway 99, Pease Floor Covering, which he continued to operate until the early 1970s.

Pease and his wife moved to Anchorage, Alaska, in 1972, where he continued in the floor covering business as a carpet salesman until his retirement in 1980. For the last three years of his life, he lived with his daughter and son-in-law Elizabeth and Jay Thielen in Spokane.

His wife Janet preceded him in death in 2001. He is survived by daughter Jaye Samson of Port Orchard, Wash., daughter and son-in-Law Elizabeth and Jay Thielen of Spokane, son and daughter-in-Law Randy and Twila Pease of Woodinville, eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, June 18, at Chapel of the Resurrection, 16300 112th Ave. NE, Bothell, Wash.