Lester Donald Scheuneman
1939-2023
Cameron, MO: Lester Donald Scheuneman, 83, Cameron, MO passed away Sunday, July 23,
2023, at a Cameron, MO nursing home.
He was born on September 3, 1939, in Cherokee Creek, Wisconsin, the son of August E. and
Viola M. (Herout) Scheuneman.
He graduated from Ridgeway High School in Ridgeway, MO. He married Donna Gay and they
had two daughters: Jilda Marnell Helmreich of Boonville, MO and Robin (Clark) Hofstetter of
Lee’s Summit, MO. They farmed in Mt. Moriah, MO for a few years and later they moved to
Bethany where Lester ran a milk truck. They then moved to Brookfield and ran a furniture store
for several years. They later divorced and he moved to Wellsville, Kansas, where he married
Phyliss. He leased oil well rights and ran a string of “Woodpeckers” rigs.
Lester loved to race cars and won many trophies. He would laugh that he had to rebuild his
car every week because after he won, the other competitors would ask for inspections to see
why he won all the time. They never did find anything wrong.
He loved competing in archery tournaments. In 1974 and again in 1979, Lest was the MBH
Indoor State Champion.
Lester sold his sixty-five-year collection of trophy animals to his lifelong friend Everett
Harding. Lester shot all of them with a bow and arrows. He joked to Everett that if he sold
them, he went with the trophies, so Lester moved in with Everett and his wife, Becky, on
September 1, 2022. Lester enjoyed telling his hunting stories and meeting all the hunters that
came to bird hunts on their farms in Ridgeway, MO.
When deer season came around, he would go out to see if any of the hunters had bigger
deer than he had on the walls.
Everett took him to Boonville to see his daughter, Jilda. After many years, he was glad to get
acquainted with her and her family again.
Lester’s health began to fail, and he was in and out of the hospital at Bethany and North
Kansas City. Then he went to Cameron Nursing Home.
Lester will be missed. He is survived by his two daughters and their children; sisters, Iona
Bell, Fort Dodge, IA and Darlene Premer, Bethany, MO as well as nieces and nephews.
Lester has been cremated under the direction of Roberson Funeral Home, Bethany, MO. At
his request there will be no services and inurnment will be held at a later date. Online
condolences may be left at www.robersonfuneralhome.com