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Alan graduated from Lowndes High School and studied at Valdosta State University.



Alan has been the cremation director for Music Funeral Services since 2016. 

Alan L. Leonard is currently the Coroner in Echols County. He was elected into this position in 2008. 

As of March 19, 2024, Alan L Leonard did not have a website.

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Alan L Leonard

Alan L. Leonard graduated from Lowndes High School and studied at Valdosta State University.



Alan L. Leonard has been the Cremation Director for Music Funeral Services since 2016. 

Alan L Leonard is currently the Coroner in Echols County and is running for re-election. Alan was elected into this position in 2008. 

As of March 19, 2024, Alan L Leonard did not have a website or publicly available contact information in order for us to send them our questionnaire.

- The County Coroner runs the Coroner’s Office, which is responsible for determining the cause, manner, and circumstance of death under the Georgia Death Investigation Act.  
- Deaths that they are responsible for investigating include violent deaths, suicides, sudden deaths, deaths unattended by a physician, suspicious deaths, deaths of children younger than seven years old, executions, deaths of inmates, and deaths of people admitted to a hospital unconscious. 
- The Coroner is responsible for pronouncing someone dead, and for releasing remains to be cremated, transported to another state, or autopsied. 
- All Georgia Coroners are required to attend a 40 hour course at the Georgia State Patrol Training Center and receive 24 hours of in services training on death investigation procedures each year. 
- Coroners are elected to four year terms in nonpartisan elections. 

The chief medical examiner for the county