Lester White
Funeral services for Lester White will be held at 2 p.m., Tuesday at the Fort Gibson National Cemetery and interment will be under direction of the Moore Funeral Home of Tulsa, 13th & Peoria.
The body will lie in state at the funeral home until 1 p.m., Tuesday.
Mr. White, who was born January 24, 1913 in Chester, AR, died December 1 in a Tulsa hospital. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, serving during World War II. He owned and operated White’s Furniture Store in Okmulgee for about 30 years.
Survivors include four daughters, Lavern Potter, Okmulgee, Ester White & Belinda Foust, Tulsa, and Betty White of Okmulgee; one brother, George Bonham, Okmulgee; five sisters, Bessie DeLong, Muskogee, Hazel Bonham, Okmulgee, Beulah Bonham, Salinas, CA, Velma Schmidt, Okmulgee, and Mildred McCullough, Hugo; 9 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.”
Okmulgee Daily Times. 4 Dec 1983; Pg 2
