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 | Title: Councilman, Ward 3 Born February 6, 1920 in Snow, Oklahoma to Robert and Delanie Sherrer, Leon grew up on a small farm with seven brothers and three sisters. The one room school he attended until the eighth grade had only one teacher- Leon’s oldest brother. After the eighth grade he attended Antlers High School where he graduated in 1939. Upon graduation from high school, Leon spent 18 months in the Civilian Conservation Corp. He worked as a carpenter at Camp Maxey in Paris, Texas, an air base in Dodge City, Kansas, and then in the San Francisco Bay area for four years during World War II doing ship repair and defense work.
On May 6, 1948 Sherrer’s Restaurant opened. Leon and his brother Lloyd built the facility
themselves and operated it together until Lloyd’s untimely death. Leon continued to manage the
restaurant during the 18 years he worked for the State of Oklahoma School Land Commission
and Civil Defense.
Always civically minded, Leon served two terms on the Durant City Council in the 1960’s and
fulfilled the role of Mayor during that time. Currently, he is serving his second consecutive term
as councilman since 2003. Over the years, Leon has served on the Oklahoma State Small
Business Council, the SODA Board, and is a Life Member of the Oklahoma Restaurant
Association of which he has been a Director for the last 35 years. Leon is active in his church, First Baptist of Durant, where he has been a member since 1950.
Leon has a beautiful family that began when he married Verta Bussell of Antlers, Oklahoma in 1949. He has two children, three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
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