Kester, Luella Watkins

Passed: 1940-02-09

Age: 63

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1940-02-16

Information: Funeral services for Mrs. Luella Watkins Kester, local resident who died Thursday evening, were held at the Vail Chapel Saturday afternoon at three p.m., the Rev. John J. Loudin conducting.  Mrs. Kester had been a resident of Ripley a little less than three years coming here from Fairmont.  She was the daughter of Daniel H. Watkins and the late Missouri Jane Haymond Watkins of Haymond settlement, Taylor county.  She is survived by her father, one daughter, Florence Ethel Kester, and five brothers, Ralph, William, and Bruce, all of Grafton, Walter, of Fairmont, and Guy, of Washington, Pa.  Burial was made in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Clarksburg, Sunday afternoon at two o'clock.  [Betty Kessel McIntyre obit collection]