Wheeler Co. TX - Obit for Nannjie Mae Foster Lester
   
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   Nannjie  Mae Foster, the daughter of Elizabeth Ann and Pleasant Foster
   was  born  in  Leavenworth  County, Kansas February 3, 1879 and passed
   away  June  12, 1953 at her home in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at the age
   of 74 years, four months and nine days.
   She  came  with her parents and family as pioneers to the newly-opened
   Sac and Fox lands in Oklahoma during the early 1890's.
   Later the family moved to farms by Oklahoma City and Yukon, Oklahoma.
   She  was  united  in marriage to James M. Lester at Yukon in December,
   1897.  To  this  union  were born two daughters, Frankie and Ruth, and
   five  sons, James Murl Jr., Wendell, Max, Clifford and Robert. She was
   preceded  in  death  by  her husband in July 1932, and her son, Max in
   January 1946, and her son Murl, in June, 1952.
   Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lester  lived in Oklahoma City, west of Enid, and near
   Nowata, Oklahoma before coming to Roger Mills County in February, 1908
   where  they  continued  to  reside  on  a farm near Cheyenne until Mr.
   Lester's death.
   Mrs.  Lester was an active worker in Baptist church, was a past Worthy
   Matron of the Eastern Star lodge and past Noble Grand of the Rebekahs.
   Mrs.  Lester lived in Cheyenne until 1942, when she moved to Shamrock,
   Texas  to  the  home  of her daughter, Mrs. Franie Bradford. In March,
   1948,  she established a home at 3333 N. W. 23rd St. in Oklahoma City,
   where she lived until her passing away.
   Besides  her  sons  and  daughters  Mrs.  Lester  is  survived  by ten
   grandchildren  and  two  great  grandchildren, and four brothers: Will
   Foster  of  Council Grove, Kansas; Ed Foster of Kansas City, Missouri;
   Joe Foster of Hammon, Oklahoma and many friends.
   To  some home is where one's hat is off, but not to this dear one, but
   home was Cheyenne with its old friends to whom she was attached.
   Burial Cheyenne cemetery, Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.
   Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK