Donald Kester Sr.

Donald Kester Sr. (legal death in July 1968)^[1] was the fourth and last person cryopreserved by the Cryo-Care Equipment Corporation.^[1]^{[note 1]} He lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico.^[2] He committed suicide by shooting himself.^[2]

"Some time afterwards" relatives made the decision to have him frozen, and made the necessary arrangements with Cryo-Care.^[2] His son, Donald Kester Jr., a psychology professor at Chabot Junior College in Hayward, California, had the primary responsibility for funding the preservation.^[2] By late 1969, he decided he had been "suckered" on the hope that his father might one day be restored to life.^[2] He retrieved the capsule, had a local welding shop extricate the body and had the thawed body shipped back to New Mexico for burial.^[2]