{"id":119248,"date":"2025-11-18T19:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/?p=119248"},"modified":"2025-11-20T19:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:47:28","slug":"leonard-r-betzold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/2025\/11\/18\/leonard-r-betzold\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard R. Betzold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Leonard R. Betzold, age 55 of Hernando, FL passed away at his residence on November 18, 2025 under the loving care of his family, friends and hospice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leonard was born in Bangor Township, MI on February 22, 1970 to the late Ray Betzold and Carol Copeland and came to this area in 1986 from there.\u00a0\u00a0He was employed in the maintenance division of\u00a0 Top of The World Golf courses .\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leonard is also known for Rocking Citrus county for over 30 years as a member of the: Bottoms up, Pool of Piranha and AYCE as the &nbsp;bassist. His band(s) volunteered throughout the years playing Fund Raising \/ Benefit Concerts for those in need in Citrus County and surrounding areas. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Left to cherish his memory is his wife of 35 years Dawn Betzold of Hernando; 5 sons: Izaiah Betzold &amp; spouse Candace, John Betzold &amp; spouse Ashely both of Beverly Hills; C.W. Howard &amp; spouse Sara of Ocala; Jacob Laboy and Zac Hall &amp; spouse Brittany \u00a0also from Beverly Hills. He has 1 surviving sister, Tammy Schultz (Lee Schultz), Bay City, MI; 6 grandchildren: Ezekiel, Chloe, Virgil, Tanner, Rylee and Jericho. He was preceded in death by a brother, Randy Betzold and sister, Pam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cremation arrangements are under the care of Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home with Crematory.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard R. Betzold, age 55 of Hernando, FL passed away at his residence on November 18, 2025 under the loving care of his family, friends and hospice. Leonard was born in Bangor Township, MI on February 22, 1970 to the late Ray Betzold and Carol Copeland and came to this area in 1986 from there.\u00a0\u00a0He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990003,"featured_media":119249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/990003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119250,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119248\/revisions\/119250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}