This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lester, Foster, Bradford Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/2940 Message Board Post: Nannjie Mae Foster, the daughter of Elizabeth Ann and Pleasant Foster was born in Leavenworth County, Kansas February 3, 1879 and passed away June 12, 1953 at her home in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at the age of 74 years, four months and nine days. She came with her parents and family as pioneers to the newly-opened Sac and Fox lands in Oklahoma during the early 1890's. Later the family moved to farms by Oklahoma City and Yukon, Oklahoma. She was united in marriage to James M. Lester at Yukon in December, 1897. To this union were born two daughters, Frankie and Ruth, and five sons, James Murl Jr., Wendell, Max, Clifford and Robert. She was preceded in death by her husband in July 1932, and her son, Max in January 1946, and her son Murl, in June, 1952. Mr. and Mrs. Lester lived in Oklahoma City, west of Enid, and near Nowata, Oklahoma before coming to Roger Mills County in February, 1908 where they continued to reside on a farm near Cheyenne until Mr. Lester's death. Mrs. Lester was an active worker in Baptist church, was a past Worthy Matron of the Eastern Star lodge and past Noble Grand of the Rebekahs. Mrs. Lester lived in Cheyenne until 1942, when she moved to Shamrock, Texas to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Franie Bradford. In March, 1948, she established a home at 3333 N. W. 23rd St. in Oklahoma City, where she lived until her passing away. Besides her sons and daughters Mrs. Lester is survived by ten grandchildren and two great grandchildren, and four brothers: Will Foster of Council Grove, Kansas; Ed Foster of Kansas City, Missouri; Joe Foster of Hammon, Oklahoma and many friends. To some home is where one's hat is off, but not to this dear one, but home was Cheyenne with its old friends to whom she was attached. Burial Cheyenne cemetery, Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK