Hester Ladner

Newspaper clipping describing Hester Ladner as a military policeman.

Hester Ladner was born on March 29, 1920, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi to Sylvan (Jack) Ladner and Ellen Elizabeth Wainwright. He married Josephine Geis on January 24, 1942. By the end of that year their first son, Hester Kenneth, was born. They went on to have ten other children Carol Diane, Gerald Henry, Karen Ann, Wayne Robert, JoEllen Dale, Roy Brent, Barbara Sue, Barry Louis, Bryan Keith, and Terrell Edward.

Hester was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at the age of eight on April 8, 1928.

Hester died August 17, 1981, and was buried in the Bayou LaCroix Cemetery.

Photographs

Hester Ladner as a teenager.

Hester Ladner in 1972 in front of the house in Lakeshore, MS, that his sons built.

Hester Ladner in Lakeshore, MS, 1972.

Bryan Ladner sitting next to his grandfather Hester Ladner's headstone in the Bayou LaCroix cemetery, October 2005. Bryan was born the same day Hester died, August 17, 1981.

Documents

Wage leger for Hester Ladner.

Death certificate for Hester Ladner.

Obituary for Hester Ladner published in The Daily Herald, Biloxi-Gulfport, Miss., Thursday August 20, 1981.