Pamela Anne Vester

Pamela (Pam) Vester lost her battle to Stage 4 Breast Cancer when she went to visit the Lord on April 6, 2016. Pam is survived by her brother, Robert H. Vester, Jr., her sister-in-law Kristine Vester and two nephews, Harrison and Cameron. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you make a donation to the American Cancer Society in her memory. Pam will be cremated and buried in Richmond, VA where she spent the last few years of her life near her brother’s family. Pam was an avid reader, watched old television shows, enjoyed Broadway plays, loved to shop, and strived to help others. Pam Vester, daughter of Jeannette and Bob Vester, was born on October 4, 1971 in New Rochelle, NY and was one of two children. When Pam was about 5 years old, the Vester family moved from New Rochelle to Brooklyn NY, where they would call home until 2012. Although, considered by today’s nomenclature as “special needs”, Pam graduated on-time with her classmates from Sheepshead Bay High School in Brooklyn, NY. After completing high school, Pam stayed at home with her parents and enjoyed an approximately 15 year career as a sales associate in the clothing retail industry in Manhattan. In 2000, Pam lost her mother who passed away from a stroke. From 2000 to 2012 Pam would continue to live at home with her aging father; one could say that both had a symbiotic relationship of taking care of one another during this difficult time in their lives. In October 2012, tragedy stuck Pam’s life as her father was hospitalized just days before Hurricane Sandy made a direct hit on the New York Tri-State Area. Due to a hospitalized father and a flooded home, Pam needed to pick up and move away from the place she called home for 36 years. Knowing that Pam would have difficulty surviving on her own in Brooklyn, Pam’s brother Rob moved her and her father down to Richmond where he could be near them. Pam’s brother became her advocate as they faced difficult odds in getting Pam the services she desperately needed as a person of “special needs”. Pam and her brother would eventually be successful in getting the help she needed which, in turn, opened the doors to help provide her financial stability, a place to live, and the medical services she needed as a Type 2 Diabetic. Unfortunately, during this time, Pam’s dad had been in a nursing home since moving to Virginia and passed away from pneumonia in October 2013. Although being diagnosed with Breast Cancer in March 2015 and given 1 to 2 years to live, Pam fought the disease courageously, refusing to get depressed and enjoyed every day that the Lord provided her. She enjoyed regularly attending Adult Day Care, writing letters to friends and family, gatherings, as well as having lunch outings with her brother. People that met her would always say that she would light up a room and was always more concerned about the troubles of others than of herself. Ultimately, it would be a metastasized brain tumor that would end Pam’s life, she passed away peacefully under hospice care at the young age of 44. She will be greatly missed and never forgotten.