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Funeral Service Friday for Lester Munson
BATAVIA, IL (August 12, 2002) - A funeral service will be held Friday for Lester
Munson, an attorney and a well-known layperson in the Evangelical Covenant
Church (ECC), who died last Thursday.
The service will be at 2 p.m. in the Ahlstand Auditorium of The Holmstad,
700 W. Fabyan Parkway, Batavia, Illinois. Munson and his wife, Edna, have
lived at The Holmstad since November 1993 after having resided in Glen
Ellyn. He and his wife were charter members of the Glen Ellyn Evangelical
Covenant Church, but more recently had been attending the Evangelical
Covenant Church of Batavia.
Munson served as the ECC Annual Meeting moderator in 1962 and 1963 and was
parliamentarian in 1977 and an Annual Meeting legal consultant in 1978.
He served on the Covenant Board of Benevolence from 1964-69 and again from
1977-83. He served on the Board of Trustees of North Park University from
1970-75 and the Swedish Covenant Hospital Board of Directors from 1968-87,
serving three terms as board chair - 1979-81, 1982-83 and 1983-85.
"For many years he was a lawyer for the denomination and was always on call
to help them on legal matters," said Harry Ekstam, a neighbor and friend
who was an administrator for The Holmstad in its early years. "He was one
of those who did a lot of work in helping develop Glen Ellyn Covenant
Church. He was a guy you could always count on. He could laugh with the
rest of them and was always a thinker with a lot of creative ideas. It was
my pleasure to be his good friend."
Munson is survived by his wife and three sons: Lester Jr. of Chicago; Eric
of Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and James of Salem, Oregon. Lester Jr. is a
legal analyst for CNN/Sports Illustrated and a writer for Sports
Illustrated. Eric became president and CEO of the University of North
Carolina Hospitals, serving there for more than two decades.
Memorials can be sent to the Salvation Army or to Covenant Harbor Bible
Camp, 1724 Main Street, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 53147.
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