Founder’s Background

Most important to Gary and his wife Esther Ann is their Faith and Family. They are blessed as both are wonderful. 

The main reason for this life story is to show clearly to our loved ones, friends and others how blessed we all are to be able to live in our wonderful America. As he is hopeful that his story will help them to appreciate our country and will motivate them to improve their lives. When they read about all of his deficiencies and how he overcame them and the wonderful things he accomplished it proves that only in the great USA is that possible. As he had no financial help from Esther as his wife did not work outside their home as it was important to her & Gary that she raises their children & she turned out to be a wonderful mother. 

Good examples of his problems: He was a terrible high school student, because he was in love with Judy Fallu (Shown Below Under Personal) throughout his 4 years. Resulting his grades being so bad he failed to graduate with his class, and he had to hitch-hike 10 miles to school each day; He was raised in a broken family in a rural area where his father left the family, resulting in his mother dying @ age 42; 

Even though he had no business experience, he founded 2 businesses, as a result he made a number of huge business mistakes; One of his companies provided financial help to large medical schools and doctors. And he had no financial knowledge, as well as being a poor money manager. His second company built a beautiful gated community with million dollar homes. Even though he had no real estate experience, he launched that project without any money. Only in America is that possible. 

Thank God, in spite of all his problems, he was able to excel in both his personal and business life. And those accomplishments happened because the Lord blessed him with a wonderful wife and the following strengths: Desire to help people; Positive outlook; Hard worker; Sales skills; Creative; Tenacious; Learn from his mistakes; And Honest; 

Along with the important fact that everything was accomplished by him in a fair and legal manner. 

FAITH  

The Leigh’s are devoted to the Lord and are very thankful for the many blessings the Lord has bestowed upon them. Gary’s wife Esther was a huge help to him in strengthening his faith. He leads an active prayer life which he thanks & tells the Lord he loves him many times each day. Gary is also active at helping people to strengthen their faith in a number of ways: He provides beautiful prayer cards to people; As well as sharing his faith generally with them; He has been a long time member of Sacred Heart Parish in Dearborn; He passes out candy @ his senior apartment building that has 230 apartments, he is known as the Candy Man; Once a month he supplies adult underwear and sanitary pads free of charge to the seniors; He also delivers packages that are sent to the mail room on the first floor to his 18 neighbors on the 8th floor; He also has been alerting his neighbors about an excellent senior’s program that he belongs to, which provides its members with many benefits that saves them a lot of effort, time and money;  

FAMILY  

Gary has been blessed with a loving and supportive wife for 61 wonderful years, during which they were best friends. He has always been supportive & faithful to her. She went to be with the Lord on August 18, 2020. Gary met Esther on a ski trip. He had no intentions of getting serious, but after spending just two days with her, he was head over heels in love. He was 22 and she was 29, he was aware of her age, but she was not aware of his. And he kept that way once he learned that she had just one serious relationship, and she called it off because the guy was six months younger than her.  Which broke his heart, and he cried. She ultimately learned Gary’s age several months later when they filling out their marriage license at City Hall. She was blown away, but she was in love. Many years later, she told Gary that she was happy that he was younger than her. As it would be likely that she would pass before him.  Because she could not bear it if he passed before she did. She was a wonderful mother and a superb teacher, her students loved her, as well as everyone else who knew her. See below Esther & Gary’s wedding photo on August 8, 1959. Also, a photo of them during their 50th wedding anniversary on August 8, 2009.

The Leigh’s have five wonderful children, Susan, Gary, Cathy, Patti and Matthew, who are God-Loving, generous, and hard workers. They became accomplished adults- Great parents to 7 wonderful children.

Their three wonderful daughters, Susan, Cathy, and Patti, all became accomplished ballet and jazz dancers. And they performed in many enjoyable recitals. Their son Gary, was a star athlete in three sports: hockey, golf, and tennis. Their second son, Matthew, did well at a top private high school where he also enjoyed playing golf and lacrosse.

They blessed them with seven beautiful grandchildren, Daniel, Elizabeth, Bianca, Ethan, Emma, Luca and Olivia. They are also blessed to have a large wonderful extended family. See below the photo of Esther & Gary’s 5 beautiful children as well as the same children 37 years later. Also, see the photo of their daughters, SUSAN wedding, which shows a wonderful photo of the entire family  

PERSONAL  

Gary’s was very active for many years helping & enjoying his family & others, & managing his businesses and traveling both personally and for business. As well as actively reading, writing and helping our Country on political matters. He traveled extensively, with his family and his businesses throughout America, Canada, Europe, Hawaii, Caribbean and Mexico. He is still deeply involved in rooting for his favorite golfers and the Detroit Tigers and the Lions.  

He was the tennis champion at his club for a number of years and his kids really enjoyed swimming at the club. He and his family enjoyed skiing and camping for many years throughout northern Michigan, Colorado and Florida. They also enjoyed scuba diving and deep-sea fishing in the Caribbean. And they actively played pinochle and ping-pong. 

Gary started working @ young age and over his life he had 17 different jobs: Starting out @ age 12 in landscaping his home in Taylor, Michigan, for his mother, which turned out to be quite attractive; cutting grass; paper route; golf caddy; purchasing agent for a national baking company; etc. And finally to become the owner of 2 companies that were very helpful to many people and medical institutions, which are shown below. Gary had the honor of being chosen as the Godfather of his wonderful niece Danielle Cooney. 

A fun fact: One of Gary’s hobbies, which he still has a lot of fun with is kidding people about their siblings. He has enjoyed talking to hundreds of people about this, mainly strangers that he bumps into when he is out and about. The normal scenario is he is standing in the cashier line and he will say to a person standing in line with him “You do not know me and I don’t mean to bother you but I’m a psychic and I can prove it to you by telling you who your best sibling is, just by looking you over. Once he’s done that, he will say to them your best sibling is the second child. And he is usually right, because he has found that about 80% of the second child is the best, which really pleases them. Whether he is right or not people enjoy the interaction and over all the years he has never had anyone shun him.

He was a golf caddy for 4 years, during his high school years @ a beautiful private golf course called Grosse Ile Country Club. He became one of their top caddies and that’s where he developed a love for golf. He hitchhiked 15 miles each way, 6 days a week, which required a minimum of four rides.

He played a number of PGA championship golf courses around the country: such as Pebble Beach in California; The Doral Country Club in Miami; Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills; The Tournament Players Course (TPC) in Dearborn; And Grand Traverse Resort; As well as a number of other great courses in Northern Michigan; He won a golf tournament at Oakland Hills and won a second one with his son Gary with a score of 19 under for 18 holes at the Detroit Country Day Invitational. He was also a charter member @ a championship private golf club for many years called the Tournament Players Course (TPC) in Dearborn, Michigan. Please find below a photo of Gary, his son & their team mates receiving their trophies for winning the Detroit Country Day Invitational. Gary’s son is on the left end of this photo, and he is on the right end of this photo.

Most of the girls in his 8th grade case had a crush on him and he was one of the top athletes in grade school. As well as, being the checker champion in his class and excellent marble player. 

His high school was a large class A school. He was a linebacker & center for 4 years on his high school football team, where he made the most tackles. His team was ranked the second strongest team in Michigan.

Please see below a photo of Gary in his football uniform.

His girlfriend throughout high school was Judy Fallu, who he met @ their church teen club. She was a real beauty. Excellent student, and a wonderful singer. Strong in her faith and she was one of the most popular students in school. Most of the players on his football team envied Gary. Judy moved to California, which was the popular thing for younger people to do back in the 50’s. When Gary met her at their 50th class reunion she gave him a passionate kiss in front of her husband. She must have missed him big time. 

Gary also played baseball for a number of years as a pitcher and had an overpowering fastball. He threw a no-hitter and usually was the strongest hitter on his teams. 

At 19 he hitchhiked with his friend Herb Wendt to Miami Beach. He worked as a swimming instructor at a large hotel on the beach, where he was known as Herb Wendt.  Because he needed Herb’s Red Cross Certificate to get that job. He was very busy teaching children of the hotel guests, from which he made big bucks. As a result, he was able to enjoy the best seating @ the top shows, because in the 50’s Miami Beach attracted all the big stars, like Nate King Cole, Harry Belafonte, etc. At Nate King Cole’s show his table was touching the stage, because he gave the maitre d a huge tip, next to him was Milton Berle, The Andrew Sisters and many other well known entertainers.

Health wise he had a heart emergency at age 85 that required an emergency flight to Cleveland Clinic, where they performed a heart operation that saved his life. His 3 daughters were a huge help to him @ Cleveland. 

Gary loved to sing throughout his life & still does. He sang @ church, as well as, belonging for a number of years to an outstanding acapella choir. That’s a choir that sings 8 part harmony and does so without any instrumental accompaniment. 

He had a beautiful garden @ his home, which featured a fig tree that produced many figs. Also, he landscaped their home of 52 years in Dearborn, which was the envy of their entire neighborhood. Please find below 2 photo’s of his garden and backyard  landscaping.

His love of landscaping was also one the main reasons the subdivision he developed and owned, called Walnut Brook Estates (WBE) was so successful, as WBE won a number of landscaping awards, as shown below. 

Gary donated approx. $100,000 to his brother Jim, which enabled Jim to build a beautiful vacation home on 30 acres of heavily wooded property in Northern Michigan. Also, Gary groomed all the woods around this home, which provided a much more scenic view. That home provided wonderful benefits for the Leigh’s, their extended family and friends. It enabled them all to become much closer. Also, Jim ran a popular deer hunting camp there for the family and friends for approximately 30 years. 

When Gary was 83 he had a complete restoration of all of his teeth. His local dentist wanted over $30,000 to do it. His sister who lived in Phoenix referred him to a border town in Mexico that is safe next to Yuma Arizona that has numerous dental clinics. They cater to Americans. Five of the clinics are approved by the American Dental . Association. He screened those and chose the best one. The owner is a good guy, helpful and easy to work with. Gary was fortunate to get the entire restoration job done for $6,800. They are efficient and complete their work quickly.  Also, that clinic picks customers up and returns them to  the airport free. In addition, it provides free a large room with a king size bed at their clinic building. It’s also a fun place as the food and entertainment are excellent. See photos below of his teeth before and after. He would be happy to refer anyone reading this to that clinic just call him at (313) 690-8747 

Also, please find below photos of his teeth before and after.

Business  

During his successful multi-decade business career, he founded, developed, and managed two outstanding companies. First, Physicians Counselling Service (PCS), which accomplished outstanding results for three large medical schools, hundreds of doctors, and thousands of patients. Second, was Walnut Brook Estates (WBE), which was an award-winning gated and golfing community. 

He is very proud of his first company PCS, which was a multi-state financial consulting firm, that was responsible for accomplishing an immense increase in patient care income generated by the doctors at a number of top university medical schools (Universities of Michigan, Texas and Nebraska). Resulting in those medical schools being able to substantially enhance their ability to recruit top doctors, increase the quality of their healthcare, research and medical training. Also, while helping the Un of Nebraska Medical School he rented a home on a lake there, which his family & friends enjoyed.  

His second company built and marketed Walnut Brook Estates (WBE), a renowned luxury gated community that won a number of awards.

It is located on the border of a championship golf course in Rochester Hills and Troy, Michigan. WBE has approx. 70 homeowners whose homes range in value from several hundred thousand dollars to over 3 million. Their community is surrounded and protected by Pine Trace Golf Club, a pond, wildlife sanctuary, private park, bike and nature trails, a creek, and heavy woods. The quality of Gary’s community motivated the city to build an award winning elementary school 1/2 mile from WBE. Also, many other real estate developers actively build other attractive communities in the entire area. Thereby, substantially enhancing the quality of all the housing in the entire area. Which was wonderful because before Gary built WBE the entire area was covered with old homes that were in bad shape. 

Below see a photo of Gary examining the architectural plans of one of the homes in his community

POLITICAL  

He has been a student of America and World history throughout his life. That knowledge and what he learned from many decades of a very successful business career, as well as, years of numerous accomplishments in helping our Country since President Reagan, has created his deep love for America. And he understands clearly why she is in so much trouble and how that happened and what needs to be done to fix our serious national and local problems. Please see what that is by checking out detailed information about that “Called Great Solutions To America’s 15 Terrible Problems Caused By The Left (Democrats) & Rino’s (Republican)” on his popular website patriotsforabetteramerica.us. Also see below some of the political help that Gary’s accomplished. Please find below a photo of him during 2024. 

#1 Gary was the National Public Relations Director for Dr. Robert (Rob) Steele, a well regarded Interventionist Cardiologist from Ann Arbor. During Rob’s 2010 U.S. Michigan Congressional campaign against John Dingell. John was in Congress for 58 years, the longest in American history and had a huge campaign war chest. Rob was not known politically as it was the first time he ran for office and everybody thought Dingell would just swamp Dr Steel. 

However, Gary was able to generate a great deal of financial and PR support for Steele from top national TV and Radio hosts and others (see below) from all over the Country. Many knowledgeable people did not believe Gary could accomplish that as Rob was not known and everyone felt Dingell was unbeatable. What made going national even more difficult is almost every congressional race is contested within a state. As a result Gary had to compete nationwide against many national candidates for national media coverage and donations. The tremendous support Gary obtained for Dr. Steele was the reason Rob gave John a real scare, in what turned out to be the closest race in Dingell’s 58 year career. The reason Dingell won, he outspent Dr Steele 3 to 1. In fact he retired after that, as the Dr Steele campaign scared him, as well as he was getting old. 

Gary arranged over 40 national and local appearances for Rob on TV and Radio, such as Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Dennis Miller, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Bill Bennett, etc. Some Gary handled, these shows generated thousands of contributions to Dr. Steele and many helpful articles from respected journalists. Also; he got Dennis Prager, Bill Bennett and Dick Morris to come to Michigan to support Steele. 

Gary’s work went well beyond TV and radio interviews and articles. Just a few examples, he arranged for Dick Morris to assist Rob for free. Time Magazine said Dick was the top private political adviser in the Country. Gary also obtained enthusiastic support from Docs4PatientCare, a popular and large national doctor association at that time that had thousands of members who were working to replace the AMA. He also lined up help from many Tea Party groups, and convinced the Tea Party Express to change their national bus tour schedule in order to hold a rally for Dr. Steele, which generated a large crowd. Amy Kremer, President of Tea Party Express, said Rob’s rally was one of the best of their entire national tour. 

#2 Gary played a major role in getting Right To Work (RTW) approved in Michigan, even though the Union Bosses hated it and spent millions to try to defeat it. The national and local political pundits were shocked as they felt that Michigan did not have a shot at succeeding on RTW, after all it was the birthplace and headquarters of the UAW. However, the union members love it because it gives them a lot more freedom and power. And thankfully that law has also been helpful to Michigan’s economy. 

#3 Gary and Patriots For A Better America (PBA) political strength, as verified by his help to Dr. Steele and RTW, has been generating a good deal of helpful PR and financial support for other important political races and cultural causes that Gary is interested in around the Country. 

#4 Gary was the Campaign Manager for an excellent candidate, who is close to the Lord. He ran against Rashida Tlaib for Congress during her 2024 race in Michigan’s 12th US Congressional District. Tlaib is a Palestinian, she is the leading member of the ulta-liberal group called the Squad in Washington, D.C., along with AOC (Alexandria Ocasio (Corte). Tlaib praised the terrorist group Hamas’ October 7, 2024 attack on Israel that killed 1200 people, mostly Jews and she was a leader in getting support for Hamas & Hezbollah from college students at all the 43 college demonstrations during 2023 & 2024. Gary assembled a top team of 5 professionals to defeat her & many knowledge people felt his candidate would win. However, his candidate had to pull out of the race because of questionable shenanigans Rashida pulled to get him disqualified, because she was worried he would defeat her. 

EXCITING INFORMATION BELOW ABOUT WALNUT BROOK ESTATES AND THE PINE TRACE GOLF CLUB.

See photos and images below of Walnut Brook Estates front entrance, gatehouse, one of its million-dollar homes, front entrance waterfall and drive. As well as the Pine Trace Golf Club entrance and their beautiful signature golf hole. Lastly, a Walnut Brook Estates site plan that shows its 12 attractions.