Cleveland Co., Oklahoma   Obituary -- Robert A. Lester, October 3, 1965

Submitted by:  Margaret Lester 	 mlester1@prodigy.net


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Norman Transcript, October 3, 1965:  ROBERT ALLEN LESTER, 51, 1009 N Berry 
Road, died Friday in an Oklahoma City hospital.

Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in the Trinity Baptist Church conducted
by Dr. Poe Williams and the Rev. Dexter Blevins.  Burial will be in the IOOF
Cemetery under the direction of Primrose Funeral Home.

Born April 2, 1914, in British Columbia, Lester moved to Norman in 1945.  He was
co-owner of the Norman Electric Service.  Prior to that he had worked with Waters
Electric for over ten years.

Lester had been president of the Brotherhood at Trinity Baptist Church, on its
Board of Trustees and had worked as a Sunday School teacher.  At the time of his
death he was a member of McFarlin Memorial Methodist Church.

He is survived by his wife, Margaret, of the home, two sons, James and Jack, both
of Whittier, Calif.; four daughters, Mrs John Hill, Oklahoma City, and Charlene,
Darlene and Roberta Lester, all of Wewoka, two step-daughters, Mrs. Bob Corbett,
Oklahoma City, and kathy McGhee, of the home and two grandchildren.

Active bearers will be Howell Gee, Otis Bigbie, Frank Pickel, Bob Quade, C. O.
Abercrombie and Wyman Wright.  Honorary bearers will be Fred Thompson, Jess
Waters, Ralph Burdick, John McLeod, Dudley Hollomon, Floyd Masters, Earl W.
Anderson, Col. William J. Myers, Al Feroli, Arnold Marshall, J. B. Kelso and
Kenneth Rutledge.

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