ENS Thelman Lester '25, naval aviator #3403, was killed in a plane crash near San Diego on August 6, 1928.
He began his career aboard the battleship Maryland; he started flight school in 1927.
His father and father-in-law were both justices in the Oklahoma State Supreme Court — one of his nicknames in the Lucky Bag is "judge." Thelman was survived by his wife of only two months.
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