SHAWNEE, Oklahoma - Ada Lee Kingham Chester, 76, died Saturday, June 15, 2002, in New Carlisle, Ohio.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday in Liberty Baptist Church with the Rev. Bill Matthews and Phil Thompson officiating. Burial will be in Tecumseh Cemetery in Tecumseh by Gaskill-Owens Funeral Chapel.

Mrs. Chester was born February 9, 1929, in Tecumseh to Isaac Jasper and Minnie Lee Cargill Kingham. She attended Temple Hill and Tecumseh schools. She lived in Borger, Texas, many years before returning to Shawnee in 1979.

She worked as a receptionist at St. Gregory's for 10 years. She also taught ceramics at the Senior Citizen Center in Shawnee. She married Lloyd George Chester on May 4, 1942, in Tecumseh. She was a member of Liberty Baptist Church in Shawnee.

She was preceded in death by her parents her husband; two brothers; and three sisters.

Survivors include a son, Lloyd Leon Chester and wife, Louise, of Dallas; two daughters, Glenda Konechney of New Carlisle and Tonya Klause and husband, Wayne, of Shawnee; five grandchildren, Kary Konechney, Eric Klause, Aaron Klause, Judson Chester and Austin Chester; five great-grandchildren, Kacy Smith, Alyssa Klause, Taylor Klause, Jayden Klause and Bailey Elizabeth Klause; a brother, Bill Kingman and wife, Mary, of Tecumseh; and numerous nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.