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JOHN CHESSER of Dry Prong, Louisiana,died Thursday at the age of 91.
He was born in Canyon, Texas, on July 19, 1906, the son of George and Ida Mae Chesser.
He married Georgia Brister of Bently, Louisiana on July 30, 1928.
They moved in 1945 to Oklahoma, where he worked for the Shawnee Planing Mill for seventeen years. When he retired he was pastor of the House of Prayer in Shawnee for seventeen years.
He returned to Dry Prong and taught a Sunday school class for the last fifteen years of his life.
He is survived by his wife, Georgia; and six children, Dorothy Bolton, Paris, Texas; Thelma Loomis, Ruby Duncan, both of Dry Prong, Louisiana; Floyd Chesser, Houston, Texas; Jettie McKimmey, John H. Chesser, both of Shawnee; sister, Estell Wood, Meeker; fourteen grandchildren, twenty one great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren.
Services will be Monday in Rush Chapel, Pineville, Louisiana with the Rev. Robert Ingram officiating.
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