This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Zentz, Butler, Tufte, Cadwell, Rickford Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3FC.2ACI/2570 Message Board Post: Friday, September 19, 2003 Lester Zentz, 76 Lester Zentz, 76, of Cooperstown, N.D., died Wednesday, Sept. 3, in Cooperstown Medical Center-Hospital. He was born Aug. 11, 1927, near Aneta, N.D., where he grew up and attended school. He served in the U.S. Army from 1945 to 1948. On July 4, 1947, in Formoso, Kansas, he was married to Norma Butler. He worked for the Rural Electrification Administration until 1951, then farmed for six years. He worked for the Griggs County Road Shop from 1958 to 1974 and began working for Reiten’s Manufacturing in 1974, retiring in 1991. Surviving are his wife; four daughters, Judy (Doug) Tufte of Audubon, Minn., Phyllis (Duane) Tufte of Federal Way, Wash., Janet (Charles A.) Cadwell of Hudson and Donna (Perry) Rickford of Cooperstown; a brother, Oliver (Violet) Zentz of Binford, N.D.; eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. The funeral was Monday, Sept. 8, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cooperstown with burial in Ottawa Cemetery near Aneta. © 2003 Hudson Star-Observer - Reposted by permission http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=8614&SectionID=3&SubSectionID=54&S=1