STANDARD EXAMINER
MISCELLANEOUS
DEATHS
March 26, 1938
LESTER, William P.
Dated: March 26, 1938
Headline: WM. P. Lester Dies of Hurts-He Suffered Crushed
Head And Chest When When
Tractor Tipped At Roy
William P. Lester, 48-year-old Roy farmer, crushed beneath a tractor while plowing on his farm Friday afternoon, died at one-thirty a.m. today in a local hospital.
Lester succumbed to a crushed head and chest, suffered when banks of an irrigation ditch caved in, allowing the tractor to turn over.
BORN IN WYOMING
Lester was born in Almy, Wyo., May 3, 1889, son of Henry and Mary Powell Lester. He was married in Ogden to Alice Hutchinson in 1911. She died several years ago. Lester moved to Roy from Wilson three months ago. He was a member of the L.D.S. church.
SURVIVORS LISTED
He is survived by the following children: Mrs. Alice Millroll, Ogden; Mrs. Cora Brofuss, Bancroft, Idaho; Mrs. Nora Gurndvig, Bountiful; Zella Lester, William Lester, Orville Lester, and Gladys Lester, all of Roy; brothers and sisters; Mary Lester, Harry Lester, Lionel Lester, and Merle Lester, all of Evanston, Wyo.
The body was sent to the Durnford mortuary in Evanston by Lindquist & Sons of Ogden.