Marilyn Kay Lester (Lanting)

Marilyn will be lovingly remembered by her husband, Jerry Lester; her children, Chris and Wendy Bayle, Tammy and Miles Harring, Blane and Daniell Lester, Stu Lester, Kenny and Kelly Lester; her grandchildren, Emerald Harring, Griffin Bayle, Dylan, Kelsey, Mason, Riley Lester, Dylan Hamilton; her father, Bernard Lanting; her siblings, Rog and Joann Lanting, Ron and Sandra Lanting, Joan and Mike Clements, Sue Lanting; and many nieces and nephews. Marilyn enjoyed shopping, traveling and getting ice cream. She loved her family and especially her grandkids.

In honor of Marilyn, contributions may be made to Faith Hospice - Trillium Woods. The family welcomes memories and messages in their guestbook online at www.cookcares.com.

Marilyn's favorite Scripture - I Corinthians 13 (NIV) If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.