Independent Enterprise
December 04, 1975
FRUITLAND, Services for Lester George Hooker, 76, of Fruitland, who died Tuesday at an Ontario hospital, were conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Fruitland Shaffer-Jensen Memory Chapel by Clyde P. (? illegible), minister of the Emmett Church of Christ. Interment with military honors was in Riverside Cemetery in Payette.
He was born Nov. 12, 1899, at Cherokee (county), Iowa. The family moved to Fruitland when he was 11 years old. He attended school in Fruitland. Mr. Hooker served with the Marines during World War 1, and later returned to Fruitland where he farmed for many years.
He was a member of the John Webster Rhoads Post No. 33, American Legion, and Payette Barracks No. 338, Veterans of World War One.
Surviving are two sisters, May Hooker, Fruitland, and Mrs. Paul (Minnie) Sutton, Long Beach, Calif. He was preceded in death by three brothers and three sisters.
