Ernest W. "Bill" LESTER

LESTER, POOLMAN, WILLIAMS, OLSEN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/29/2006 at 01:55:52

Ernest W. (Bill) Lester, 80, of Clarion, passed away Sunday, December 5, 2004 at the Wright Medical Center, Clarion. Funeral services were held Wednesday, December 8 at the United Presbyterian Church in Clarion at 10:30 a.m. Burial was in the Evergreen Cemetery, Clarion.

Ernest William Lester was born February 20, 1924 in Rowan, the son of Herbert James and Harriet Louise (Poolman) Lester. He attended school in Rowan and Clarion and as a young man he worked on a farm. On May 9, 1948 Bill was united in marriage to Emma S. Williams at the Dows Methodist Church. The couple settled in Clarion and raised their family. Bill worked for the Wright County Road Department for 39 years, retiring in 1987. He then drove the CAT van for the City of Clarion from 1987 to 2001.

Bill is survived by five children, Ernie and wife, Berniece of Liberty, Missouri; Don of Des Moines; Steve and wife, Carolyn of North Little Rock, Arkansas; Louise Lester and companion, Barry Babcock of Goldfield; Jim of Clarion; 14 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; one brother, George Lester of Clarion; one sister, Betty Olsen of Garretson, South Dakota; many nieces and nephews. Bill was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Emma; daughter, Linda; three brothers and one sister.

December 9, 2004
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