Covenant News

Funeral Service Friday for Lester Munson

BATAVIA, IL (August 12, 2002) - A funeral service will be held Friday for Lester Munson, an attorney and a well-known layperson in the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC), who died last Thursday.

The service will be at 2 p.m. in the Ahlstand Auditorium of The Holmstad, 700 W. Fabyan Parkway, Batavia, Illinois. Munson and his wife, Edna, have lived at The Holmstad since November 1993 after having resided in Glen Ellyn. He and his wife were charter members of the Glen Ellyn Evangelical Covenant Church, but more recently had been attending the Evangelical Covenant Church of Batavia.

Munson served as the ECC Annual Meeting moderator in 1962 and 1963 and was parliamentarian in 1977 and an Annual Meeting legal consultant in 1978.

He served on the Covenant Board of Benevolence from 1964-69 and again from 1977-83. He served on the Board of Trustees of North Park University from 1970-75 and the Swedish Covenant Hospital Board of Directors from 1968-87, serving three terms as board chair - 1979-81, 1982-83 and 1983-85.

"For many years he was a lawyer for the denomination and was always on call to help them on legal matters," said Harry Ekstam, a neighbor and friend who was an administrator for The Holmstad in its early years. "He was one of those who did a lot of work in helping develop Glen Ellyn Covenant Church. He was a guy you could always count on. He could laugh with the rest of them and was always a thinker with a lot of creative ideas. It was my pleasure to be his good friend."

Munson is survived by his wife and three sons: Lester Jr. of Chicago; Eric of Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and James of Salem, Oregon. Lester Jr. is a legal analyst for CNN/Sports Illustrated and a writer for Sports Illustrated. Eric became president and CEO of the University of North Carolina Hospitals, serving there for more than two decades.

Memorials can be sent to the Salvation Army or to Covenant Harbor Bible Camp, 1724 Main Street, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 53147.

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