Your  whole family is in our prayers.   We have been remembering all the fun times;  the farm, garden, 4th of July, & parties.  Ted was such a special unique "cowboy" and man...he will be missed but remembering  the wonderful memories will always be with us.   You all are in our thoughts! Lv Fullers

Just a short story about my Uncle Ted... I have hundreds .. from digging fishing worms together to shade tree philosophy in the tack room of his barn... Ted called me one morning and said there would be a hockey game Saturday morning in the valley below the pond .. I had recently moved from southern New Mexico to Kansas City and felt so lost... Ted knew that and had given me a pair of ice skates...  I took them out to a frozen river (the Little Blue) and taught myself, through trial and mostly painful error, to skate.  I had never played a hockey game and was so excited.   How could anyone know a simple pair of skates would mean so much to a boy from the country.  I showed up and parked next to the pond.  Ted had given me a key to the gate and told me not to tell anyone (which I never have 'till now).  I didn't know it then but Ted had worked for days opening the flood pipe on the damn of the pond and flooding the valley below several times.  I walked down from the pond dam and there were quite a few country boys getting ready to play hockey.  I felt energized coming down the snow packed hill with my skates hung over my shoulder.    We all put our skates on .  There were hockey sticks on the ground and a couple of pucks.  Uncle Ted collected a lot of things, among them were hockey sticks, skates, and I guess lost country boys.  Someone let out a war whoop and the game began.  It was so fun.  I never felt out of place around that valley and Ted knew that..   We didn't know much about hockey and that didn't matter.  We jumped and yelled and skated into each other and fell and even managed to score once or twice.  Around noon it began to snow and directly after that Uncle Ted and a couple of other men came over the far hill on horseback.  I remember yelling at Ted and thanking him for the great fun.  I still see him on horseback coming over that hill.  I love him and am sad to see him go.  Ted made himself a part of my heart and taught by example how to be a good man. 

Ted was always there to dance the polka with me at the hunt ball, fix my tractor or spreader, help me find hay when it was short that season. He and Bev showed me how to plan the garden, harvest the onions and braid them for storage, and get those early peas in on time.  He was my "go to " guy.

Ted was a lovely man , a real gentleman ,always  a kind word laced with humour  to make ones day a brighter one 
God bless .

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Ted Chester

June 15, 1928 – December 11, 2018

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