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Dr John W & Tammy Hester
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Obit for John posted by Martha Reddout
© Marietta Monitor
28 Feb 2014, Page 4
Services for John W. Hester, 60, of Ardmore were held at 2 p.m.
Thursday, February 27 at the Craddock Memorial Chapel, Ardmore,
with Rev. Matt Payne officiating.
Interment followed in Lone
Cedar Cemetery.
Born May 6, 1953 at Bossier Parish, Louisiana, the son of Odell
and Edna Hester, he died Saturday, February 22, 2014.
He finished high school in Oklahoma. After serving his country,
Dr. Hester returned to Oklahoma where he earned his medical
degree from the Oklahoma State University School of Medicine.
John was an Ardmore resident for 11 years where he proudly
served the community at area hospitals.
Dr. Hester loved God, family and country. His favorite pastimes
were reading, shooting, history, gardening and computers. He had
an insatiable appetite for learning about history and people. He
was a great listener and friend. He refused to fly and would
frequently drive 20 hours or more to visit family members. If
you needed anything, you could count on him. He had life-long
relationship with Diet Coke, fried chicken, chicken wings (all
flavors) and his amazing homemade gravy. You were likely to find
a copy of Sportsman’s Guide, The Aeneid and the Bible on his
coffee table. Most of all, he was one person you could always
count on for support, advice and an occasional too honest
opinion. He loved life and had no regrets.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Survivors include his wife, Tammy Hester of Ardmore; a daughter,
Jennifer Hester of Colleyville, Texas; two sons, John Hester of
Villa Rica, Georgia and Jesse Hester of Chickasha; three
brothers, Kenneth Hester of Oxford, Massachusetts, Wesley Hester
and Clay Hester and 10 grandchildren.
Serving as pallbearers were John Hester, Jesse Hester, Kenneth
Hester, Conner Coffey, Kyle Coffey, Travis Trammell and John
Finley. Honorary bearer was John Gilliam.
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Marietta Monitor
Page 1, 28 Feb
2014
County physician dies
By Barbara W. Sessions, Contributor
John W. Hester, DO, a practicing
physician at Mercy Health/Love County Hospital and Clinic, died
Saturday.
Hester, 60, underwent eight hours of
emergency surgery in Ardmore after being stricken by illness earlier
in the day, said clinic director Connie Barker.
Barker, along with other stunned and
saddened colleagues, was at the clinic in Marietta Sunday afternoon
notifying the patients Hester was scheduled to see on Monday.
“He was admired and will be greatly
missed,” Barker said. “Dr. Hester had not been here long but he had
acquired a full patient load and was well-liked.”
Hester joined Mercy Health/Love
County last July, filling a void left by the retirement of Dr. Larry
D. Powell.
Hester’s death occurs barely two
months following the tragic loss of another popular Love County
physician, Dr. Vergil D. Smith.
Smith, who had served the community
since 1963, died on December 9 after being struck by a vehicle
outside his home in Marietta.
Hester is survived by his wife
Tammy, an RN at the Madill hospital, two sons and two daughters.
Hester’s career as a family
physician covered more than 30 years in Oklahoma and elsewhere.
He had practiced at a military base
in Alabama, a college health center in Georgia, the Veteran’s Center
in Ardmore, family clinics in Pond Creek and Fairview, and the
hospital in Seiling.
“I like this profession because I
just like people,” Hester said upon starting work in Marietta. His
‘bedside manner’ quickly earned praise from patients.
He said the positive example of a
childhood family physician inspired him to go into medicine.
Following graduation from Carl
Albert High School in Midwest City in 1970, Hester served in the
U.S. Army, including one year in Vietnam.
He attended the United States Air
Force Academy for one year. He graduated from Rose State College in
1974, Central State University in 1976, and Oklahoma State College
of Osteopathic Medicine in 1980.
He supported himself through college
on the G.I. Bill and as a carpenter.
He constructed Japanese gardens, a
hobby learned during military service in Okinawa, and he visited
academic libraries in England and Europe doing research into ancient
civilizations.
Hester was born in 1953 in Bossier
Parish, Louisiana.
This article included a picture of Dr. Hester.
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