Ross County OhArchives Obituaries.....Hester, Harvey. July 1961
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Ralph Cokonougher rcokon@hotmail.com March 10, 2006, 7:15 pm

From an old newspaper clipping dated 20 July 1961.  The name of the newspaper was not on the clipping.

                              Harvey Hester.
  	HARVEY HESTER, 75, Lyndon Rt. 1, died Wednesday at 12:30 a.m. in 
University Hospital, Columbus, where he had been a patient for three weeks.
	He was a retired farmer.
	Born May 16, 1886, in Ross county, he was a son of Daniel Hester and 
Martha Frye Hester.
	He leaves his wife, Edith Grace Dorman and two step-daughters, Mrs. 
Edith Roosa, Lyndon Rt. 1, and Mrs. Imogene Simmons, Washington C.H. Rt.  2, a 
niece and three nephews.
	He was a member of the South Salem Methodist church.
	Service will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Strueve funeral home, 
with Rev. Donald Cummans officiating.  Interment will be made in South Salem 
cemetery.
	Friends may call at the funeral home after 9 a.m. Friday.

Additional Comments:
     I met Harvey when I was a child.  My mother and father visited him and 
his wife, Edith, several times each year.  Harvey lived on his farm on Lower 
Twin Road across from the old brick schoolhouse about 2 miles east of South 
Salem.  Molly Jane Hester lived in the old schoolhouse at the time.  I asked 
my mother, Harvey's distant cousin, about him, and she stated that he was a 
nice old man who always gave my siblings and me white peppermint candy sticks 
when we visited him.  He liked clocks and had several of them in his home, all 
set to different times for some unknown reason.  Harvey had a particularity of 
eating only one food at a time until he got tired of that food and switched to 
something else.  For example, he might not eat anything but cottage cheese for 
a week or two.  Then he would get tired of that food and switch to something 
else, which in turn, would be the only thing he would eat for the next week ot 
two.  It could be that this was just a parculiarity of old age.  Who knows?
     Harvey had a relative, named Belle, who occasionally stayed with him and 
Edith. Belle had a little dog which she had trained to pull a little cart.  
Belle would hitch her little dog to his cart about once a week, and then she 
and the dog would walk the two miles, and back, into South Salem, where she 
would buy bread and other foodstuff.  It was good exercise that very few 
people get much of nowadays.

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