Dan hester obituary: Dan Warren Hester, 91, died calmly after a concise disease on Monday, January 5, 2015, encompassed by individuals from the close family. He was brought into the world in October, 1923, to the late Myrtle Cornell and Nat William Hester in Fries, VA. Notwithstanding his folks, he was gone before in death by his sister, Frances, and sibling, Carl.

Dan’s appreciated spouse of 60 years, Aleen, died in 2006. Presently, with the beauty of God, they have been brought together.

Dan chipped in for administration in the United States Navy during WW2. During this time, he served on board a minesweeper, which is a little wooden vessel used to free any submerged mines from the ways from the bigger Navy ships. He rode this little, squeezed boat right across both the Atlantic and Pacific seas. His boat took an interest in the Normandy D-Day attack, making a way to the Omaha foothold for the remainder of the armada to follow. The well-known adage “Wooden Ships, Iron Men” really applied to the daring mariners who served their nation on board a minesweeper.

After the war, Dan went to school on the “G. I. Bill”, moving on from both East Tennessee State University and Peabody College. He at that point showed school and trained for quite a long while, before starting assistance inside the YMCA association. In 1963, He came to Lancaster, Ohio, where he turned into the head of the neighborhood YMCA. Dan served the network in this situation for the following 40 years.