Angie B. Wester

Marietta Monitor

May 28, 1999, page 4 Courtesy of Ray and Elreeta Weathers

Submitted by: Martha N. Reddout

Services for Angie B. Wester of Oklahoma City were Thursday at 2:00 p.m. in the Kennedy Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Carol Norton of Sherman, Texas, officiating.

Mrs. Wester was born August 1, 1898, in Mississippi, the daughter of James W. and Mattie Megginson Shankles. She died May 25, 1999, at the Baptist Retirement Center in Oklahoma City at the age of 100.

Mrs. Wester moved to Burneyville, Indian Territory, with her family as a young child and had lived in Marietta until 1946. She then lived in Ardmore until 1979 before moving to Oklahoma City. She and Orren Wester were married May 14, 1916. During the years that Mr. Wester was Sheriff of Love County, 1934 through 1946, Mrs. Wester prepared the meals for the inmates and made the jail a showplace, growing beautiful flowers for all to enjoy. She was a homemaker and a member of the Highland Hills Baptist Church of Oklahoma City.

Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Dr. Truman and Edna Wester of Denison, Texas; a daughter, Sondra Bonds, also of Denison; a sister, Zula Cooke of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; seven grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Wester was preceded in death by her husband in 1958; a son, Jim Edd Wester in 1938; four sisters and a brother.

Services were directed by Kennedy Funeral Home with interment in Lakeview Cemetery.