Boundary County ID Archives Obituaries.....Poston, Lester Vernon  November 23, 2006
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Bonners Ferry Herald, Thursday, November 30, 2006
   Lester Vernon Poston passed away on November 23, 2006 at his home in Bonners
Ferry, Idaho.  Services for Lester will be Saturday, December 2, 2006 at 11 a.m.
at the Bonners Ferry Funeral Home; private inurnment will be in the Grandview
Cemetery.
   In loving memory, and in honor of our father, Lester Vernon Poston, born Nov.
19, 1922, at Boundary Community Hospital, Bonners Ferry, Idaho
   Our dad grew up in Bonners Ferry, and worked at the Bonners Ferry Lumber
Company when he was 16, while going to high school, he graduated, and was
drafted into the service shortly thereafter.  He was a World War II veteran,
serving in the Luzon, with the 25th Lightening Division, Wolfhound regiment from
’43 to ’46 as a medic on the front lines, until the war was over.
   He docked in Tacoma, Wash., where he lived for a short time with his family
and worked driving logging truck on Mount Rainier, until he met and married
Donna Mae Rygmyr, from Tacoma, on Feb. 14, 1948, in Tacoma.  He then moved back
to Bonners Ferry to raise his family, and went back to work at the Bonners Ferry
Lumber Company for several years, until he took a job with Louisiana Pacific
Lumber Company, where he worked as a lanner set-up man until he retired.
   He lettered in basketball and track in high school, and earned his gold
basketball.  He also played on the town league basketball team, and at one time
they won the Idaho Panhandle Championship.
   He was an avid hunter, it was his favorite pastime, he loved to hunt with his
brother, and sons.  He also liked to fish.  He was an avid sports fan.  He was
also a builder.  His dad and brothers worked together and built the houses they
live in to this day.
   Preceding him in death are his wife, Donna Poston; and son Lester L. Poston;
his parents; John and Alice Poston; brother Lloyd Poston; and sister Mae Vanik.
   Surviving relatives are his daughters, Judith A. Nichols from Clarkston,
Wash.; Brion H. Poston, wife Glenda, and Donavon R. Poston, of Bonners Ferry;
Granddaughters, Jennifer R. Nichols, Asotin, Wash., Jessica M. Poston, Bonners
Ferry; great-grandchildren, Tanya K. Nichols and Justin T. Nolte, from
Clarkston, Wash.; brothers, Chuck Poston and John Poston, both from Bonners
Ferry; sister, Shirley Messenger and her husband John, from Twin Falls, Idaho
and numerous nieces and nephews.


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