Browse Items (1 total) Tags: Ira Leech Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Photographs of Ira D. Leech Photographs of Ira D. Leech; died November 20, 1963. Served in World War I and returned to Decatur to become a member of the Fire Department in 1920. After working for a year as a hoseman, he was briefly laid off in 1921, but returned in 1922 as a… Tags: 1963, biography, Chief, Decatur IL, fire, Fire Chief, Fire Department, Firemen, Ira D. Leech, Ira Leech, Leech, Photo File: Fire Department