Lester Wheeler Zufelt
1895 - 1992 (97 years)-
Name Lester Wheeler Zufelt [1] Birth 8 Oct 1895 Sandy Creek, Oswego County, New York 
[1, 2, 3] Gender Male Death 30 Dec 1992 Pulaski, Oswego, New York, United States of America [2, 3] Person ID I70959 Stewartsny Last Modified 2 Dec 2025
Father Fred Leroy Zufelt, b. 13 Jul 1875, Ellisburg, Jefferson Co., NY d. 11 Nov 1958, Liverpool, NY (Age 83 years) Relationship natural Mother Ora C. Wheeler, b. 30 Oct 1879, Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York, USA d. 8 Jan 1933 (Age 53 years) Relationship natural Marriage 12 May 1894 [2, 3] Family ID F23719 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Pauline Cook, b. 11 Jun 1896 d. 29 Jan 1975 (Age 78 years) Children 1. Lester Cook Zufelt, b. 21 Feb 1919, Pulaski, Oswego, New York d. 18 Jul 1987 (Age 68 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]2. Doris P. Zufelt 3. Lois J. Zufelt, b. 27 Feb 1921, Tully, New York d. 2 May 2006 (Age 85 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]4. Howard Eugene Zufelt, b. Abt 1925, Pulaski, Oswego, New York d. 5 Jun 2009 (Age 84 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F23710 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Dec 2025
Family 2 Jennie Sturtevant, b. 1903 d. 2002 (Age 99 years) Family ID F23711 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Dec 2025
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Notes - Watertown Daily Times (NY) - Thursday, December 31, 1992
Lester Zufelt, 97, Pulaski, died Wednesday evening in the House of the Good Samaritan, Watertown.
Arrangements with the Foster-Hax Funeral Home are incomplete.
His wife, the former Pauline Cook, died Jan. 29, 1975.
The funeral for Lester Zufelt, 97, Pulaski, will be at 4 p.m. today at the Foster-Hax Funeral Home. Spring burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Sandy Creek.
Mr. Zufelt died Wednesday evening in the House of the Good Samaritan, Watertown.
Calling hours will be from 3 to 4 p.m. today at the funeral home. Contributions may be made to the Northern Oswego County Ambulance Corps.
Surviving are his wife, Jennie; two sons, Howard E., Camillus, and Edison L., Pulaski; three daughters, Lois Stub, Sandy Creek, Doris Loomis, Saranac Lake, and Louise Ware, Key West, Fla.; 15 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren, and a sister, Emma Shangle, Manlius.
A son, Lester C. Jr., died before him.
Born Oct. 8, 1895, in the town of Sandy Creek, son of Fred and Ora Wheeler Zufelt, he was a graduate of Cornell University, Ithaca, and lived in Pulaski most of his life.
He married Pauline Cook Feb. 11, 1917. She died Jan. 29, 1975.
He married Jennie Claflin Nov. 18, 1977.
Mr. Zufelt retired in 1960 after 30 years with the Warren Construction Co., Syracuse. He was also owner and operator of a farm in the Sandy Creek area for many years.
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - Saturday, January 2, 1993
- Watertown Daily Times (NY) - Thursday, December 31, 1992
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Sources - [S1301] Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Year: 1910; Census Place: Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York; Roll: T624_1063; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 0155; FHL microfilm: 1375076.
- [S2] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;;), Database online.
Record for Fred LeRoy Zufelt
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=13744597452&indiv=try - [S2] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;;), Database online.
Record for Ora C Wheeler
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=26441302971&indiv=try
- [S1301] Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Year: 1910; Census Place: Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York; Roll: T624_1063; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 0155; FHL microfilm: 1375076.