John "Jack" Lesar

I'm one of Jack's many cousins (17 of us); his father and my mother were brother and sister. I left Indiana 41 years ago, and had the chance to know Jack as an adult only in the past year that we've been emailing. He was intelligent, well-read, funny and supportive. I'm going to miss hearing from him, my cousin and my friend.

Hi, Michelle (LaVechia) Hildebrandt here. My son John Isaac Koonce is Jack and Bernie's Godson. He will always be remembered by me as a man with an awesome sense of humor. Jack was always cracking jokes, telling jokes (he had a great gift for that by the way) and doing favors for people. He had a heart of gold and he was an avid reader of Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings," Cs Lewis's "Chronicles of Narnia," and "The Screwtape Letters," as well as "Liturgy of the Hours." He was a devout...