Esther Mae Ewing

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1940 in Summum, Fulton, IL. ¹ The 1940 census recorded three Bucher households as neighbors:

Sherman Bucher, farmer, 30, was living with wife Elizabeth, 24, and son Mitchell, 2 months.

Lester Bucher, farmer, 32, was living with wife Esther, 28; son Delmar, 10; and daughter Mabel, 2.

C. G. Bucher, 54, was living with wife Mabel, 53; daughter Muriel, 22; and daughter Lu?lie, 14.

Everyone was born in Illinois.

Esther married Lester Edmund Bucher, son of Cyrus Gibbel Bucher and Mabel Bell Miller, on 17 Mar 1928 in Astoria, Fulton, IL. (Lester Edmund Bucher was born on 14 Jul 1907 in Astoria, Fulton, IL,² died on 6 Apr 1963 ² and was buried in Astoria: Woodland Cemetery, Fulton, IL ².)

Esther next married Bernard G. Beekman on 9 May 1964 in Havana, Mason, IL. (Bernard G. Beekman was born on 28 Jun 1909 in Enion, Fulton, IL and died on 30 Aug 2001 in Havana, Mason, IL.)