Saturday, March 16, 2019

Lester Ezra Bradford information


This a collection of links to information on my father, Lester Ezra Bradford.  I'll update it as I get more info.  Please comment with your stories about Lester or other useful links.

We're extending his obituary into a biography.  See pages linked at the top of the biography for childhood memories of some of his siblings.  Lester also wrote a short biography titled A Life in Tropical Agroforestry.

There's a collection of photos of Lester with his family and friends, and a slightly smaller curated selection from a slide show at his memorial.

We made two videos of his memorial service. The first starts with introduction of the family and continues through the start of the service and a delightful memorial by Lester's dear friend Tyler Clark.  There's a gap due to the videographer (me) failing to watch his battery.  The second video continues with several other testimonials and a couple of interviews at the reception after.  We have audio of the service proper. The audio of the service is in four parts, missing the very start: 1, 2, 3, 4.  The third part covers the gap in the videos.

2 comments:

Ethan Bradford said...

Here's a link to Lester's PhD thesis at LSU: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/2029/

Ethan Bradford said...

There's a nice autobiography written by Lester for a newspaper which I've scanned and pieced back together. It's titled A Life in Tropical Agroforestry, and available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vLC6nuOByEyWmUHOXaU20hyTkzMpssLaI8dbWa1lN1s/edit?usp=sharing