Leonard Rogers Nettles

On May 27, 2026 a big heart failed completely. That heart belonged to Leonard Rogers Nettles oldest child of John L. Nettles and Ann R. Nettles, born April 7, 1953 in Florence SC. That big heart spent 7 decades turning strangers into friends and never forgetting them. Our friend took his degrees from The University of South Carolina (where he joined Chi Psi fraternity) into the business world to help in the building of the world of today. He worked for many years for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in Atlanta GA providing performance bonds necessary for the big projects we take for granted as signs of progress. His marriage to Hope Jennings Nettles lasted 27 years until she passed too soon and now Leonard has also left us too soon. He is survived by his daughter Sarah Joy Nettles, his younger brother Louis (Tami) and his beloved nieces, Ammie Conner Nettles and Sydney Nettles, daughters of his youngest brother Sidney and Sidney’s wife Kyra Hoffmeyer Nettles, both of whom predeceased him. His surviving brother has so many memories of the free range childhood of the 60s and 70s as do the many friends of thrat era. Those early friends and the friends he met later are legacy of that big heart.