Schley-Macon County GaArchives Obituaries.....Lightner, Lester April 12, 1940
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The Ellaville Sun  Friday, April 19. 1940  No. 42
DR. LIGHTNER, OF IDEAL, DIES
Dr. Lester Lightner, 57, prominent practicing physician at Ideal for a quarter 
century, was paid final tribute at funeral services conducted from the 
residence there Saturday.  Dr. Lightner died Friday of a heart ailment after a 
critical illness of several weeks.  The Rev. W.W. Whaley and the Rev. Virgil 
Culpepper officiated at the funeral and burial was in the Ideal cemetery.  
Born in Schley county in 1883, he was the son of E.T. and Adeline Hobbs 
Lightner.  Following his graduation from an Atlanta medical school, in 1913, 
he served an internship at an Augusta hospital.  He came to Ideal in 1914, and 
established a wide practice.  Survivors include three sisters, Miss Mary 
Lightner and Mrs. J.W. Nelson, Sr., both of Ideal; Mrs. L.B. Brooks, of 
Atlanta; three brothers, Dr. J.T. Lightner, Columbus; Dr. Homer G. Lightner, 
Lexington, Ky., and J.E. Lightner, Ideal; besides a number of other 
relatives.  Pallbearers were R.C. Brooks, the Rev. Henry Brooks, Hansell 
Lightner, John Lester Lightner, Howard park and Wallace Nelson Junior.



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