Rochelle Lester

She was born in Barnsboro, now Northern Cambria Pennsylvania where she lived until graduating from the Indiana College of Nursing. She loved her job as a nurse and spent several years working at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She subsequently worked at Middlesex General University Hospital in New Brunswick New Jersey, where she lived with her husband Joe and three sons, David, Craig and Jim.

Rochelle or Scottie as her father nicknamed her, had a very strong interest in genealogy and researched the Anderson family back to 1650 when they arrived in America. She actually went further back in time to the English origins of the Anderson family. She belonged to the Genealogy Friends Group which was made up of a dozen or so genealogists world wide. She spent hours conversing with her friends that she only knew from the internet. With all her family history she easily became a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and she has many volumes of many branches of her family history.

She was an accomplished artist and over the years created many paintings that were both sold and distributed to her family. It was 2004 that she met Don Waskiewicz at a painting class and eventually they became life partners and lived together for the past 15 years.

She is survived by sons David (Dana) Vargo, Craig Vargo, and James Vargo; two grandson's Brandon (Hannah) Stephens, Daniel (Christine) Vargo; and three great granddaughters Wakely and AlliAnna Stephens and Violet Vargo.

A memorial service will be held at the Kays-Ponger & Uselton Funeral Home in Punta Gorda on Friday, April 9th at 11:00 am.