Lester E. Hey

Mr. Hey died Friday, May 23, 2003, at Baldwin Care Center.

He was born May 8, 1915, in Baldwin, the son of William and Emma Marie (Hauser) Hey.

Mr. Hey grew up in the Baldwin area and graduated from Baldwin High School in 1935. He attended Baker University and Kansas University, where he graduated in 1940 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.

He worked with Wright Aeronautical Co. in Patterson, N.J., until he returned to Baldwin in 1947 to work with his father and brother at Hey Machinery.

Mr. Hey was a member of the KU Alumni Association, Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, First United Methodist Church of Baldwin and the Baldwin City Rotary. He had been a member of the Baldwin City Cemetery Assn., for which he served as president, and the Baldwin State Bank board.

He married Anna Kuntz on March 15, 1942, in Patterson. She died March 26, 2001.

Survivors include three daughters, Marilyn Duncan, Albuquerque, N.M., Sharon Minkes, Los Angeles, and Sally Meador, Checotah, Okla.; a son, Bob, Baldwin; 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

The family will greet friends from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home in Baldwin.

The family suggests memorials to the Anna K. and Lester E. Hey Education Fund, to benefit Baldwin High School seniors, or to the church, sent in care of Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home, P.O. Box 64, Baldwin 66006.