Robert Deward Hester, age 92 of Rentz, passed away Sunday, February 5, 2017 at the Carl Vinson VA Medical Center.

Services for Mr. Hester will be held at the Georgia Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Milledgeville, at 1:00 PM Friday, February 10, 2017.

Mr. Hester was a retired electrician. He was preceded in death by his parents, Marion Hester and Anna Lee Burris Hester, his wife, Kathleen Powell Hester.

Survivors include daughters, Barbara (Bob) Behrendt of Lighthouse Pointe, FL, Sharon Hester of Hephzibah, and the mother of his children, Eloise Hester of Hephzibah.