Obit of Jestis, Theo (j232) - Bryan County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  C Colston <kittensworld@sbcglobal.net>  30 Jan 2004
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Durant Daily Democrat
Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Theo Jestis, 84

A service will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Dalton-Holmes Funeral Chapel 
for Theo Jestis, 84, Durant, who died Monday, Jan. 19, 2004, at King’s 
Daughters and Sons Nursing Home.

Burial will be in Highland Cemetery under the direction of Dalton-Holmes 
Funeral Home.

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Durant Daily Democrat
Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Theo Jestis, 84

A service will be 2:30 p.m. today at Dalton-Holmes Funeral Home Chapel for 
Theo Jestis, 84, Durant, who died Monday, Jan. 19, 2004, at King’s 
Daughters and Sons Nursing Home. The Revs. Carrell Hooper, Brian Sterbenz 
and Jody Shires will officiate.

The daughter of Dan P. and Lillie (Sorrell) Wedge, she was born Tuesday, 
July 22, 1919, in Durant.

A lifelong resident of Bryan County, Mrs. Jestis was a homemaker, and a 
member of First Baptist Church in Armstrong. She loved reading, cooking 
and writing poems.

She married Carl Jestis July 20, 1935, in Durant.

Preceding her in death were her parents, husband, infant son Travis Carl 
Jestis; son-in-law Ed Goss and sisters Altha Jones and Nelsene Rider.

Burial will be in Highland Cemetery with Karl D. Jestis, Curtis Turner, 
Floyd White, Lee Levins, Olen Jestis, Jimmy Jestis, Terry Rider, Danny 
Jestis and Doyle Jestis serving as pallbearers.

Dalton-Holmes Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
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