Leslie T. “Les” Cullers

Leslie T. “Les” Cullers

Coralville

Leslie T. “Les” Cullers, age 92, longtime resident of Coralville, died Thursday, July 10, 2025, at the Colonial Manor Care Center in Amana under the loving and very competent care of the care center staff and Iowa City Hospice.

A time of visitation will be held on Sunday, July 13, from 3 to 5 pm followed by memorial services at 5 pm, concluding with Military Honors at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service in Iowa City. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made in his honor to Iowa City Hospice or the Coralville Library. To share a thought, memory or condolence, please visit the Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service website at www.gayandciha.com.

Leslie Taylor Cullers was born February 19, 1933, in Springfield, Illinois, the son of Estle and Marian (Leslie) Cullers. Following graduation from high school he married Nancy Ann Neuber on July 4, 1953 in Springfield. Les then went off to serve in the United States Army during the Korean Conflict. Returning from service, he began a career in petroleum sales that spanned nearly 40 years for a number of different companies where he worked hard and did well. In retirement he would become the golf course junkie at Brown Deer Golf Course. It became so bad, they ended up hiring him and paid him with golf balls and shirts! He simply loved the course and the people, he was the organizer of the Senior Golf League there. Les had a knack for finding lost golf balls, and turned this into a sideline gig with selling egg cartons of golf balls from his driveway on 10th Street. When he wasn’t busy with golf, he found time to be the man his family and friends would go to when they had computer issues. He might not be the Geek squad, but many would testify that without him, they would have never got their computer running. Les’s life would not have been complete without the love of his family, who he was most proud and loved so very much!

His family includes his wife of 72 years, Nancy; their daughters, Cheryl Cullers-Hoard (John), Cindy Cullers-Smith (Ronald) and Pam Cullers-Benner (Ronnie); grandchildren, Leslie Cady, Jamie Burrows (Xzavier Mallard), Shelby Shaull (Shawn), Jonathan Hoard (Erin), Joshua Hoard (Kailey), Maranda Smith (Colter Manley), Clint Smith (Kara), Madison Smith (Brandon Feltz), Marissa Smith (Jordan Madden), Amber Lee (Todd Galloway), Samantha Lee, Spencer Cullers, Brianna Benner and Corey Benner; great-grandchildren, Kiara Stevenson, Cayden Stevenson, Kyla and Leo Mallard, Austin, Delilah, Tyson, Taylor and JD Shaull, Jackson, Kenney, Houston, and Oakley Hoard, Cyrus Hoard, Riley Nelson, Allie Oberholsor, Knox, Felicity and Marshall Galloway, Effy and Elliott Benner, Sage, Markie and Holly Manley, and Finn and Harrison Madden; and Les’s sister, Sharon Morescki and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, daughter, Kathy Cullers Burrows and her husband, James; brothers, Roger and his wife, Doris Cullers, Larry Cullers and his wife, (Sharon), Jerry Cullers; brothers-in-law, Eugene Morescki and Ernest Neuber and his wife, Shirley and Richard Neuber.

A sincere thank-you to the staff of Sterlingshire, Colonial Manor and Iowa City Hospice for the exceptional loving care of Les and his family through all of this. We will never forget you and what you have done for us!