Newspaper article:

Services Held Monday For John Tester, 86

John Tester, 86, a lifelong resident of Liberty Center, died Saturday in a rest home in Delta after a six month illness.

Mr. Tester was a retired farmer and a member of the Liberty Center Methodist church.

Surviving are sons, Leo, of Toledo, and Vern, Detroit; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Services were conducted Monday, March 8, from the Walter funeral home in Liberty Center with the Rev. David L. Eichar officiating. Burial was in Young's cemetery.

Obituary:

John Tester, lifelong resident of Liberty Center except for a few years spent in Wauseon around 1910, died Saturday morning at the Frey convalescent home in Delta where he had been since August of last year. Mr. Tester was born May 20, 1867, and had attained the age of 86 years, nine months and sixteen days.

He was united in marriage with Lillian Smith in 1889 and to this union two sons were born. He united with the Liberty Center Methodist church in 1901 and had transferred to Wauseon and then back to the local church in 1913 and had been a loyal member through the years.

He had farmed and practiced the barber trade in Liberty Center, Wauseon and Napoleon.

He is survived by the two sons, Leo, of Toledo. and Vern of Detroit; also three grandchildren, Paul, Leo, Jr., and Robert; four great-grandchildren, Susan, John, William and Scott, along with other relatives and many friends. It is true he has more friends that have passed on to eternal rest than survive him in the hour of demise.

We regard his passing to the breaking of human ties that bind us one to another but we consider death as a release from infirmities and illness to the home of a new life in a place prepared, not made with human hands, but eternal in the heavens.

Services were conducted Monday, March 8, from the Walter funeral home in Liberty Center with the Rev. David L. Eichar officiating. Burial was in Young's cemetery.