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I created, Dad and Mom made sure I His passion for doing something If you take yourself too seriously and
learned to not make the same mistake else made him a District Court feel more important than others you

twice. I wish I could say I have lived up Commissioner and in his final years a will find few friends or acquaintances
to this lesson. member of the Caroline County Board willing to interact with you. And the
of Elections. He loved both of those greatest joy that a person can have is to
Too many people in today’s world
jobs and he truly enjoyed all the people be able to laugh at themselves. People
continue to make the same financial
he interacted with. He was a man of the who take themselves too seriously, or
mistakes and get themselves in deeper
community. feel more important than others, can’t
and deeper trouble. In many cases these laugh at themselves because too oft en
are the same people who have failed to Not everything he did was successful, they are laughing at others and in many
realize that if something sounds too and there were many things he was not cases being laughed at by others.
good to be true it usually is. good at. Lesson from Leroy number
7 is, “don’t take yourself too seriously.” All fathers are special, and mine was
Dad always seemed to have some kind Many people have summed up Leroy especially so. Not because he was my
of side job in addition to his career as Rowe’s personality by saying. “He was father, but because he taught me so
a banker. He and my mother got their Leroy”. He was a unique individual who much about life. I am sorry that it has
insurance licenses together by going was not perfect in many ways. He was taken his passing for me to realize this.
to night school and he sold insurance a diabetic who loved to eat sweets and He was a tremendous person and I have
to many of his bank customers. Lesson he smoked until a few days before he learned so much more about him from
from Leroy number 5 is; “always have died. He didn’t like many vegetables the many hundreds of other people who
some other job or vocation to fall back on and he never exercised. He never tried knew him.
in case something happens to your main to impress anyone and he rarely was
source of employment.” I don’t think he impressed by someone else, and you “He Was Leroy”
always had another “hustle” because he always knew where you stood with him.
was worried about his career. I think he This is the greatest characteristic I think Mr. Rowe is Vice President/Lending for

honestly loved having something else he had. He was genuine, he was Leroy. Bay Capital Mortgage Corp. with offi ces
to do. But he always told me that he did in Easton and Annapolis. He has lived in
these other things because he wanted to And to me, that is the ultimate Caroline for his entire life and supports
be able to fall back on something in case compliment and lesson to be learned the county by volunteering in a variety of
something did happen to his banking from him. Dad enjoyed people and ways. He currently lives near Greensboro
career. And something actually did. interacting and being around people. He with his wife Jeanne and daughter Kelsey.
could, and often would, talk to just about

Whether he was supplementing his
anybody about just about anything. He
income through a complimentary
was prompt to express his opinion but he
business like insurance or he was
always allowed others the opportunity to
leveraging a hobby earning additional
express theirs.
spending money by selling shotgun
shells, he was always looking for or
enjoying some kind of activity for

financial gain. With my mother he even
owned a wholesale jewelry business that
specialized in pins, tie tacs, cuffl inks etc.
with an Eastern Shore theme. Go fi gure,
my father Leroy, the banker designing
and assembling tie tacs for fun! Because you deserve qqualified, llocal representation
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