Ross County OhArchives Obituaries.....Hester, Howard W. July 29, 2000 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ralph Cokonougher rcokon@hotmail.com March 21, 2006, 6:29 pm From the Tuesday, 1 Aug. 2000, Hillsboro, Ohio, "Times-Gazette", page 2, col. 2: HOWARD W. HESTER. Howard W. Hester, 83, of State College, Pa., a native of South Salem, died Saturday, July 29, 2000, in Hastings, Pa. He was born Aug. 12, 1916, in South Salem, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John and Carolina F. Strickrott Hester. He was graduated from Buckskin High School, attended New Orleans Baptist Cemetery (sic Seminary) for one year and Columbia Bible College in South Carolina for three years. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II in the Southe Pacific theatre. He was retired from Penn State University, where he was a research aide at the Land and Water Institute. He also was a reporter and photographer with the Lock Haven Express for one year, the Times- Union and Democrat & Chronicle of Rochester, N.Y., and the Medina Daily Journal. He also was employed by U.S. Printing and Lithograph Co., St. Charles, Ill., and Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission, Chicago. Survivors include his wife, Dors A. Whipple Hester of State College, Pa., whom he married July 23, 1949; a daughter, Cheryl R. Hester of York, Pa.; sons Curtis A. and Ruth Hester of Hastings, Pa., and Paul H. Hester of State College, Pa.; two grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Funeral services will be held Thursday, Aug. 3, at noon at Eloise B. Kyper Funeral Home, 1034 Benner Pike, State College, Pa., with the Rev. Drew Fenstermacher officiating. Burial will be in the Centre County Memorial Park in State College. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/ross/obits/hester322nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ohfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb