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Ralph Kester © Enid Morning News 08-1970 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
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Funeral services for Ralph Kester, former Enid Postmaster, will be conducted Friday at 10 AM in the Henninger – Allen Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Leslie G. Everitt Jr. officiating. Burial will be in the Enid Cemetery.
Kester was appointed to the Enid post by the late President Franklin D Roosevelt, and took office in 1937. Kester held the position until his retirement some 30 years later, in the summer of 1967.
Kester was a native of Ohio and came to Enid in 1902, when his family purchased a farm on the south of Enid, which is now Kesterfield Addition. Kesterfield Street was named for the addition.
Kester graduated from Enid high school and was in the real estate and insurance business before being appointed postmaster. He served for many years as chairman of the Garfield County March of Dimes campaign. Kester had served on the board of the First Presbyterian Church where he was a member. He also belonged to the Lions Club.
His wife Delores died in 1955.
Survivors include two brothers, Albert of Buffalo, Wyoming, Lymen of Longmont, Colorado; a niece and nephew, Miss Mikell Rieder, Guthrie, and Bruce N. Kester, Dallas, Texas; a niece and nephew the Kesters raised, Mrs. Lynn Margagliano and Louis B. Elyen Jr., both of Enid.
Postal employees will be seated as pallbearers. Memorials may be made to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation General Division with Henninger – Allen Funeral Home as fund custodian.
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