Lester W. Sommers, age 88, passed away peacefully on Friday, January 3, 2025.
Funeral services were held at Boldt Funeral Home, Faribault on Friday, January 10, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. Reverend Verne Daniels officiated. Interment was at Maple Lawn Cemetery, Faribault with military rites provided by Rice County Central Veterans.
Visitation was at Boldt Funeral Home, Faribault on Thursday, January 9, 2025 from 4 to 7 p.m. and also one hour prior to the service on Friday.
Lester Warren Sommers, son of Glenn Frederick and Alice Anna Nora (Vail) Sommers was born December 29th, 1936. He was one of nine children who grew up on their family farm East of Faribault. He graduated from Faribault High School in 1955. After high school, Lester was in the active reserves for 5 and 1/2 years with the Army Combat Engineers and worked at McQuay’s as a punch press operator. He then attended barber school at the University of Minnesota.
Lester was proud to say he was a barber for 54 years! He barbered in Minneapolis, Northfield, Rochester, the University of Minnesota, and had his own shop in Bloomington for 32 years. He was well suited for his trade as he loved to meet people and was curious about their lives. You would always hear him telling jokes and making people laugh! In his free time he enjoyed spending time with family, and seeing country musicians such as Willie Nelson and the Oak Ridge Boys. He loved to travel. Some of his destinations included Branson, California, South Carolina, Arizona, Montana and Guatemala.
He is survived by his partner, Marilyn Graff, his former wife, Charlotte Petersen, two children, Daniel (and Sophia) Sommers, Stephanie (and Craig) Hatfield, four grandchildren, Emma, Clara, and Theodore Hatfield, and Tabitha Sommers, and many nieces and nephews.
Lester was preceded in death by his parents, and siblings, Raymond (Betty Lou) Sommers, Everett (Emma) Sommers, Dorothy (Gordon) Fischer, Della (Lester) Gunderson, Delores (Eugene) Strasser, Roger (Delores) Sommers, Donald (Sharon) Sommers, Betty Lou (Larry) Hoppe, and nephews, Steven Sommers and John Gunderson.