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Written By: By Donna Johnson
CLARENCE LEONIDAS "LEO" FENDER
August 10, 1909 to March 21, 1991
Clarence “Leo” Fender was a man of his times. He took piano lessons and played saxophone in grammar school, but he was more intrigued by radio, then in its early days.
As a youth, he put together his own crystal set, and during his teens, he assembled a ham radio station in his father’s barn, the same barn where he was born in 1909 on land that’s now part of Anaheim, California.
His parents, Clarence Monte Fender and Harriet Elvira Wood, were still building their house at the time of Leo’s birth.
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They eventually developed a successful orange grove on that farm near the Fullerton border, and Leo was among local kids who worked in the packinghouses.
While in high school, Leo started building and fixing radios and audio amplifiers.
He set up shop at home and did repair jobs for fellow students. Even as a teenager he was considered an authority. And his younger sister, Wilda, remembers
