Obituaries:  John Coleman Lester, Sabine Parish       L-236
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 7, 1964
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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John Coleman Lester

  Funeral services were held at Warren Meadows Funeral Chapel,
Jan. 31, for John Coleman Lester, 67, with the Rev. H. H.
Tibbitts officiating.

  Mr. Lester died in Shreveport, after a lengthy illness.

  Burial was in St. John Cemetery, with Warren Meadows Funeral
Home in charge.

  Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Edna Lester; eight sons, Creed,
Robert, and Charles, all of Many, Lawrence, and Orland of
Shreveport, Bradley, and Clayton of Knoxville, Tenn., John C. Jr.
of Charleston, W. Va., and Daniel C. Lester of El Dorado, Ark.;
two daughters, Mrs. Clayton Fleury of Atlanta, Ga., Mrs. Robert
Bentley of Tucker, Ga.; two brothers, Claude Lester of Many, and
Chris Lester of Houma; one sister, Mrs. Mattie Kennedy of
Florien; 22 grandchildren.

  Pallbearers were Claude Lester Jr., Joe Bill McCormick, Danny
DeKeyser, Dennis Ray Lester, Dale McCormick, Tom Canady.