Donald Joseph Koester

Donald Joseph Koester

1940 to 2013

Donald Joseph Koester, 72, of Ovid, Colo., passed away Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, in Castlerock, Colo. A visitation has taken place at Austin-Tennant Funeral Home and a Mass of Christian burial was at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Julesburg with Father Bryan Ernest celebrating. Interment followed at the Ovid Cemetery.

Don was born on Nov. 19, 1940, in Sidney to Henry John Koester and Helen “Nienhuser” Koester. He attended grade school and high school in Peetz, Colo., where he graduated from. After high school Don attended the Cleveland School of Meat Cutting...