Lester C. Folsom - 1917-1998

FOLSOM, TARRANT, STEELE, STILWELL, GAVIN, COBLE, STREET

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 6/19/2011 at 20:40:30

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa WAUKON STANDARD, September 22, 1998
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Lester C. Folsom was born April 8, 1917 in Postville, Iowa to Dr. Austin and Anna (Tarrant) Folsom, DVM. He died Thursday, September 10, 1998 at his home in Westwood, Massachusetts. In 1927 he moved to Waukon, Iowa where he attended St. Patrick's Catholic School and Waukon High School. Lester joined the United States Navy in 1940 and spent four years in the South Pacific with the Second Marine Division during World War II.

He was preceded in death by his brother Cloy Folsom and his parents.

He is survived by his wife, Joy; 2 sons, Richard (Melanie) Folsom and Robert (Jeannie) Folsom, and 3 grandchildren, all of Westwood, Massachusetts; 1 brother, John "Jack" (Kathleen) Folsom of Des Moines, Iowa and 3 sisters, Myrtle Folsom of Des Moines, Iowa, Irene Steele of Waukon, Iowa and Bernice Stilwell of Harpers Ferry, Iowa; 2 sisters-in-law, Regina Gavin of Racine, Wisconsin and Barbara (Charles) Coble of Greensboro, North Carolina, and a brother-in-law, Charles (Patty) Street of Camden, Maine.