LaVoyne E.B. Jester
March 8, 1900-April 25, 1947
Niles Daily Star, Monday, April 28, 1947, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library
LaVoyne E. B. Jester, 47, former Niles resident, was to be buried in Niles today after funeral services this afternoon in Michigan City, ind., where he died on Friday. He had been ill for several years.
Born in Niles March 8, 1900, he spent most of his life in the vicinity of South Bend. Survivors include his stepfather, Edward Smithers, Cassopolis; five children, Clarence L., James Dean, Joyce, and Mary Jane Jester and Mrs. Betty Uplinger, all of Elkhart; and two stepchildren, William L. Crill, Ardmore, Ind., and Mrs. Dorothy Edwards, Michigan City.