Charles "Bud" Priester

Charles Earl “Bud” Priester passed away on Friday, January 5, 2018. He was 88 years old. Bud was born in Helena, Montana on November 13, 1929. Bud came to Nevada as a very young boy, living with his mother, Hazel and his father, Oscar and going to school in Tonopah. Characteristic of the toughness that would mark his whole life, Bud would walk miles every day to and from school. As a young man, Bud worked in the mines including the gold mine in Round Mountain, Nevada. However, most of Bud’s adult life was in the construction field, with an emphasis on carpentry. As a project manager for Taylor Construction, Bud supervised portions of the construction of many hotel properties in Las Vegas, such as the Dunes, the Hilton and the MGM. He also worked as a supervisor for Bechtel Corporation at McCarran Airport, later working for Clark County, Nevada in the same capacity. Bud entered hospice care in November of 2016 and was not expected to live beyond a few weeks. However, always the fighter, Bud survived for another 13 months.

Bud was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 65 years, Norma Elizabeth Priester and by his brother Fred. He is survived by his beloved sister Emily, and by his sister, Gail. He is also survived by his 3 daughters (Sharon Marshall, Christine Kaempfer and Joan Collier), his son-in-law Christopher Kaempfer and by 7 grandchildren (Millisa Collmar (Marshall); Diana Tong (Kaempfer), Andrew Kaempfer, Katherine Fischer (Kaempfer), Lindsay Brown (Kaempfer), Dawn Hilburn ( Follmar ) and Janet Settle (Follmar) and by 9 great grandchildren, Gage Collmar, Levi Collmar, Nolan Collmar, Joel Collmar, Violet Brown, Madison Courtney, Chance Courtney, Vance Settle and Ethan Settle.