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Archive Home > 2012 > November > 10 > Bend veteran hailed as hero in British flood dies at 81

Bend veteran hailed as hero in British flood dies at 81

By staff report / The Bulletin
November 10, 2012

A Bend resident and an American who saved more than 20 lives during a 1953 flood in England has died.

Reis Leming died at his home Sunday. He was 81.

Leming, a native of East St. Louis, Ill., owned a burglar and fire alarm company in Bend. But he was best known for a daring rescue on a chilly....

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