Wesley Mason Jester, Jr.

   Another name for Wesley is Wes.

   FamilySearch ID: LNNJ-ZH7.

  Birth Notes:

Born at 11:05 A.M.
Attended by Dr. J. M. Reese

  Noted events in his life were:

• Baptism, 25 Apr 1943, Epworth Methodist Church Cockeysville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA. ³

• Residence: Box 12b Providence Road, Between 1948 and 1958, Towson, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA.

• Residence: 14 Felton Road, 1958 To 1960, Lutherville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA.

• Residence: 4106 Canterbury Terrace, Rockville, Md, Between 1960 and 1962.

• Social Security Number, Bef 1961.

• Graduation: Northwood High School, 1962, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland USA. ⁴

• Military Service: Air Force, Between Jan 1963 and Feb 1964, Texas and Turkey. ⁴ Discharge was occassioned by an X-Ray revealing a portion of the skull that was not covered by tissue. This was from an operation that happened when he was 6 months old. That operation removed a large area of infection and left a small part of the skull covered only by the skin.

• Residence: 818 Kellogg Rd, Between Aug 1963 and Jul 1971.

• Occupation: Computer Programmer for Monumental Life Insurance Co, Between 1964 and 1966, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA. ⁴ In this position, he was responsible for maintinaing the Punched Card Accounting machine wired boards. These boards provided the logic used to control the machine processes for accounting and premium payments.

• Organizations: Joined Masons at Monumental Lodge #96, 18 May 1965, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA. Initiated Entered Apprentice 18 May 1965,
Passed to the Degree of Fellowcraft 5 October 1965
Raised to the Sublime degree of Master Mason 21 December 1965

• Occupation: Computer Programmer for NAC Charge, Inc, Between 1966 and 1968, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA. ⁴

• Occupation: Computer Programmer/Instructor for Automated Networks, Inc, Between 1968 and 1970, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland USA.

• Occupation: Service Station Owner/Operator for Sunoco, Between Jun 1970 and May 1971, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA. With encouragement from my father, I opened a Sunoco Service station on Reisterstown Rd, in Baltimore. Business was fairly good, but the Sunoco management team did not provide the assistance that was promised. The company accountant did not show up for 3 months. I hired my own and by that time we were behind with required payments. The company demanded those payments and this overextended us. The company had a quota of 100,000 gallons of gasoline per month for this location. We never pumped more than 65,000. When the lease came up for renewal, they choose to let the station close. To my knowledge, this location never did well. There were 3 discount dealers within 2 blocks and Sunoco refused to compete with them. They abandoned this location after 3 more years.

• Occupation: Programming Instructor at ECPI, Between Jun 1971 and Oct 1971, St. Louis, Missouri USA. ⁴

• Occupation: Computer Programmer at ITT Finance, Oct 1971 to Jul 1972, St. Louis, Missouri USA. ⁴

• Occupation: Systems Analyst/Programmar at Data Tecnology Co, Between Jul 1972 and Nov 1972, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland USA. ⁴ In November of 1972, the owner was unable to extend his government contract and closed the business. 22 people were put out of work including myself.

• Residence: 5534 Silverbell Rd, Jul 1972 to Aug 1974, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA. ⁴

• Occupation: Automobile Salesman, Feb 1973 to Jun 1973, Towson, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA. ⁴ I was unable to find employment from November to February. To support myself and family, I took several part-time jobs as they became available. I worked in a record store and a sandwhich shop to make money.
I got this sales job with Towson Ford and was able to make a few sales; just enough to get by. One of them was to a man who was the Vice-President of personnel for Martin-Marietta Data Systems. We talked about my background and he asked me to come by for an interview. At that interview, I was hired as a programmer.

• Occupation: Systems Analyst/Computer Programmer for Martin-Marietta, Jun 1973 to Dec 1976, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA. ⁴

• Residence: 6019 Arizona Ave, Between Aug 1974 and Dec 1976, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA. ⁴ This was the first house he and Teresa bought. His Mother gave them $1000.00 for a down payment. They repaid that within the first year.

• Occupation: Systems Analyst/Programmer for Martin-Marietta, Between Dec 1976 and Mar 1995, Orlando, Orange, Fl. USA. ⁴ In March of 1995, Martin-Marietta merged with Lockheed Corporation to become Lockheed Martin

• Residence: 623 Thomas Jefferson Blvd, 31 Dec 1976 to 31 May 1979, Orlando, Orange, Fl. USA. ⁴

• Residence: 451 Bonifay Ave, 1 Jun 1979 to Dec 1995, Orlando, Orange, Fl. USA. ⁴

• Graduation: Valencia Community College, 14 Dec 1990, Orlando, Orange, Fl. USA. ⁴ He received an AA Degree. He obtained a 3.7 GPA and was a member of the Phi Theta Kappa honor fraternity. Previously, he had earned an A.S. certificate in Computer Science at the same school.

• Occupation: Systems Analyst/Computer Programmer for Lockheed-Martin, Between Mar 1995 and Dec 2005, Orlando, Orange, Fl. USA.

• Residence: 8802 Reparto, Ave, Between Dec 1995 and May 2004, Orlando, Orange, Fl. USA. ⁴

• Graduation: from Columbia College, 4 Mar 2000, Orlando, Orange, Fl. USA. ⁴ He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Inforrmation Science. He maintained a 3.8 average.

• Citizenship: Irish, 5 Mar 2000. ⁵ The citizenship is based on the marriage to Teresa Creagh.

• Residence: 8864 Reparto Ave, Between May 2004 and Dec 2005, Orlando, Orange, Fl. USA. ⁴ The house at 8802 was rented out

• Occupation: Systerms Analyst/Computer Programmer, Between Dec 2005 and Dec 2009, Johnson City, Washington County, Tennessee USA. ⁴ In Decmber 2005, we moved to Johnson City, Tn where I was able to continue working for Lockheed in a virtual environment.. I setup an office at home and was connected to the Orlando office via internet.

• Residence: 1503 Kings Row, Dec 2005, Johnson City, Washington County, Tennessee USA. ⁴ The house at 8864 Reparto was taken over by daughter Lisa

• Retirement, Dec 2009, Johnson City, Washington County, Tennessee USA. ⁴

Major: Summer 1950, Towson, Maryland

This is my first dog, Major. At this time, Dad was working at the Jester Dealership in downtown Baltimore.

One day in late spring of 1950, while dad was sitting at his desk and this ratty looking German Shepard walked in and layed down beside his desk. He did not whine, nor cry nor make any sound; he just laid there. Dad got him some water, which he drank, but continued to lay there. Dad checked him but did find any wounds or other problems.

When Dad got ready to go home, the dog was still laying there. He led him outside and the dog simply laid down by the door. Dad left a bowl of water there for him and went home.

The next morning, Dad exepcted the dog to be gone, but he was still there where he had laid down the evening before. When Dad went inside, the dog followed him and again laid down by the desk. Dad gave him water then went to little shop down the street and got him some dog food. By this time, Dad had taken to calling the dog Major, probably because of his days in the service. He never actually told me why he called him that.

This time, when Dad left for the evening, he brought the dog to his car, and dog jumped right in as if it was something he had always done. So, Major came home with him. When he got to the house, it was as if he had lived there all his life.

He took to me immediately. As soon as he walked in the door, he came over to me, sniffed a bit then put his head under my hand. We gave him bath and cleaned him up. He seemed to enjoy it.

From that time on, he and I were unseparable. He and I ran through the woods, he went with me while I was doing chores and walked with me when I had to go down to the store for messages for Mom.

The store was about 3/4 of a mile away and I would ride my bike. Major would run the whole way beside me. Everyone in the little town of Providence, where we lived, loved him. I think they all wanted him he was so friendly.

However, if anyone would come to the door, he would go to the front door and sit there with his bared. He wouldn't growl, or do anything agressive, but you knew you better not do anything agressive.

In 1958, I went to Massanutten Military Academy. When I came home at Thanksgiving, Major was not there. Dad told me that he had been hit by a motorcycle just a couple of dyas before. I was devastated. To me, it was like have my heart ripped. It took me a long, long time to really get over his brutal death. As it turns out Karma is everywhere. The cycylist that hit him, was inebreated and driving wrecklessly. When he hit the dog, the cycle went end over end and he would up with major and severe injuries. He wound up with a leg that no longer worked, blind in one eye, he lost his right hand. He was right handed. Karma!

Moving to Florida: 6 Dec 1976, Baltimore City, Maryland

It was a crazy time. Teresa was almost 9 months pregnant with Lisa, I had been in Orlando for nearly a month and a half, and I came home a day before we were to move.

We had an old Chevy station wagon, and it was not as well maintained as it should have been; I was out of town after all - ha-ha. I got home a day or so before we were to move and catch the auto train to Orlando. It got very cold and the engine block froze. Not only did it freeze, it cracked the block. We had just one day to get something done.

I called around and found a place that had an engine and would get it installed overnight. Cox's, Inc. was a salvage yard and had the exact engine that was needed. They did a great job and had it ready to use by the time we needed to leave to get to the train. The whole bill came to 463.00, a kings ransom back then. It was worth every penny. That engine ran beautifully for a couple of years before we traded the car for a newer used car.

The train trip was something in itself. We were on the auto-train to Orlando and had coach seats. Wesley was hyperactive and just could not sleep. He ran around the car all night long. Of course Teresa was extremely uncomfortable and I was nearly a basket case. But, we survived. I found out later that the personel guy who set up the trip could have booked us into a bedroom. However, he was a "company" man and was not going to spend one penny more than absolutley necessary to get us to Florida. When I found out, I was very upset and expressed my anger with him to head of Martin Orlando. The gentleman was given a reprimand and demoted. He soon left the company.

Trip to Turkey: Apr 1984, Ankara, , Ankara, Turkey ⁶

In April of 1984, I was sent with a team from Martin-Marietta to Anakra, Turkey on a special project. We were to put together a proposal to the Turkish Government to update the administrative information systems of the Numanè Hastanisi (Numan Hastanasee) "New Hospital." There was a lot riding on the Turkish government funding the on-going project.

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The photo above shows the team from the Turkish consulting business and the Martin-Marietta group. We all worked together for a solid three months to finish the proposal.

In the photo, I am in the last row on the left. I do not remember many of their names now, but will name those that I can.
The girl next to me is Barbara, just behind her is David, in front of him is Shirley Prutch. The man on the far right is one of the Turks we worked with. He was called Mr. 10 percent because everything he did carried a 10% charge. Beside him, with the mustache, is one of ours and I cannot remember his name; I think it was Jack. Beside him is Rex. The girl in front of Mr. 10% is Sarpil (Sarpeel). She was the secretary assigned by the Turkish consulting business we were partnered with. I don't remember the names of any of the other Turks on the team. That is except for the tall guy in the back; his name was Mohammad. At the end of the project, David and Sarpil got married and came back to the states as husband and wife. Rex and Barbara stayed in Turkey and started a consulting business that did very well.

All of the Turks were really wonderful people. We all got along really well. Mr. 10% invited me to his home for dinner twice which is why it upsets me that I can't remember his real name. He and his wife were really great people and she was a wonderful cook. I don't remember now exactly what she served, but both times were the "normal" Turkish dinners. What a feast.

Shirley Prutch was a Vice-President at Martin-Marietta. She had led a gender equality movement among the upper echelons in the corporation. It was obvious that she had ruffled a lot of feathers as there was a considerable talk about them trying to find a way to get her out.

On our first day in country, we met with the Minister of Health. He expressed his desire for the success of the project but it known loud and clear, there was no money in their budget for any on-going work. Shirley did not take this very well but accepted it as a challenge. The leader of the consulting firm, indicated that the government can always find money for projects it likes. (Later on Mr. 10% let it be known that a certain amount of baksheesh was expected; a bit of the total project funds.) This was "normal" business practice at the time and expected. However, Martin-Marietta would not play that game. That is one of the reasons they never did well in the middle east except for the military side of things run by the State Department.

My job was to design the top level system based on the needs as documented in discussion with the hospital administrators. The rest of the team would meet with the hospital personnel. The next day, Sarpil would take their notes and type them up into a standard format. I would then take those notes and develop Use Case scenarios. (A Use Case is a methodology to describe the action between a user and a system.) I would also develop a chart depicting the functionality of the system and its inter-relations.

All-in-all, it was a really great time. We all had a lot of important work to do and quite a bit of time to enjoy the Turkish culture. Some of us would rent or borrow a vehicle and drive out into the country side. We would stop at some local restaurant and grab a meal. Always a great choice. We never, ever had a bad meal. Since it is a muslem country, most of the dishes available were lamb or chicken. The Turks have a wonderful way of preparing both.

When the project was over, we presented our proposal. The Minister was duly wowed. He loved the ideas we came up with, appreciated the fact that it could be achieved in a couple of phases to reduce the overall cost, and was modernizing the systems. However, there was no money in the budget to proceed; as he had told us in the beginning. We later came to find out, that in addition to that, the primary raison d'etere was that the main administrator liked the current system that was still closely tied to the old Ottoman way of doing things. Everyone along the line that needed to approve something would get some baksheesh. The new system removed that completely. Along with the fact that the head of the project was a female. It must be remembered that this was a muslem society and woman did not have high level positions.

This, of course, was the death knell for Shirley. Since she could not deliver on a simple project, she was of no value to the company. Of course, they could not fire her, but they reassigned her to a nothing job and paved the way for her to take a golden parachute. She wound up taking a position at a rival aerospace company at the better position and higher salary. I guess she got the last laugh.

On my way home, I stopped in Ireland to see Teresa and girls who had gone there for the summer. What a great time we had.

Wesley married Alice Marie Clemow, daughter of Harris Nelson Clemow, Jr. and Willie Mae McADAMS, on 12 Feb 1971 in Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA. (Alice Marie Clemow was born on 14 Aug 1946 in Houston, Harris County, Texas USA. and died on 29 Dec 2019 in Houston, Harris County, Texas USA..). The cause of her death was Cerebral Vascular Accident (Stroke).

  Marriage Notes:

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Wesley next married Mary Teresa Creagh, daughter of James Creagh and Mary Kate Ryan, on 12 Feb 1971 in Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA.¹ (Mary Teresa Creagh was born on 7 Apr 1949 in Nenagh, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland and was christened on 8 Apr 1949 in Nenagh, Tipperary, Munster, Ireland.)

  Marriage Notes:

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