Len, age 85, of Amelia, passed from this life on July 11, 2009. Len was a retired rural mail carrier and an Air Force veteran of WWII.

George Ashman Sr., who worked with him "35 years off and on," recalled Len began his career at the Mattoax Post Office, then transferred into the Chula office where Mr. Ashman worked. The two worked together for three or four years before both transferred to Amelia.

"He was a dedicated mail carrier," Mr. Ashman said.

"He was very, very helpful to me as a new carrier when I started as a substitute on my route," said Diane Coleman. "He knew the contract very well and was just a wonderful person."

"He was a good mail carrier," agreed Lois Yeatts, former Jetersville Postmistriss. "There was never a complaint from one of his customers. He was Johnnny-on-the-spot when it came to knowing when he had to be somewhere. But he was quite a character. He really kept us going."

"He liked to argue with people," Mr. Ashman remembers. "He was kind of short-tempered. In fact, when he quit smoking, nobody talked to him for about three weeks 'cause he would tell you where to go."

Len & Molly's practice of volksmarching was written up in the August 11, 1994 Monitor. "We had stopped smoking and started walking to keep from killing each other," Molly said with a grin. "I decided to quit in December of 1981," Len said for the article. "It was just horrendous and I started walking just to get out of the house. I thought after a quarter of a mile, I would just die, but then I was able to do a little more and a little more." The volksmarches were each 6.2 miles long, and the couple eventually walked almost 6,000 miles in 45 states and Canada.

They collected a wall full of medals collected tromping across the country. "You get a flavor of history, of place, that you can't get any other way but walking."

Len participated in history as a World War II veteran of the Air force, from June 5, 1942 to November 29, 1945. His unit was part of a February 1944 series of raid against German aircraft manufacturers that become known as "Big Week". On a mission over Berlin, he told Blanton Dodson, "just before we turned to come out, a 155-milimeter shell came right through our main gas tank, through the bottom and out the top! ...The engineer put all the engines on the tank that was draining dry, and when the engines started sputtering he cut them over to the other tank... We threw out everything we could - we threw out our flak suits. We even took the guns out of their mounts and threw them out to lighten the load... We made it back across the [English] Channel and came in for a landing...We went over the...end of the runway [and] the engine quit. We were out of fuel! The plane was a loss. It was bulldozed off the runway!"

After the war he flew recreationally, from Hilltop Airport run at the time by his brother, Garland Moyer. "He flew fixed wing planes and I flew some with him," Mr. Ashman said.

Don Reyna remembered Len as being an active volunteer with the American Cancer Society in Amelia, and Relay for Life. "He transported cancer patients to their treatments. He used his own car, never asked for any money or anything. And with Relay he used to fill the luminaries with sand, hundreds of them, by hand with just a little cup. It took him a long time, but he did it every year!"

Len is survived by his wife, Molene "Molly"; daughter, Russell Moyer Reid of Richmond; brother, Charles F. Moyer of Amelia; two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.