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Lester
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2/8/2008 - CHERRY
CREEK — Lester H. Sweeting, 65, 1022 West
Road, Cherry Creek, died on Feb. 5, 2008, unexpectedly
at WCA Hospital, resulting from an automobile
accident.
Lester was born Feb. 12, 1942, in Syracuse.
His foster parents, William and Irene Beare,
raised him. He was a graduate of Syracuse University
with an undergraduate degree in political history
and a law degree in 1967.
He joined the IRS immediately after law school,
and in 1968 was transferred to IRS Headquarters
in Washington, D.C. Following completion of
an administrative internship, he joined the
IRS Office of International Operations, where
he managed 14 overseas posts on seven continents.
In 1983, he was transferred to London as an
assistant revenue service representative at
the American Embassy. His territory included
the United Kingdom, Ireland and Scandinavia.
In 1987, he was transferred to San Paulo, Brazil
as IRS Revenue Service representative covering
South America and Africa , south of the Sahara.
He returned to Washington to work on a major
tax penalty study. He joined the IRS Office
of Legislative Affairs in 1990 and served a
legislative internship in the office of Congressman
Matthew G. Martinez (CA-31), where he joined
his staff as attorney after working on Head
Start Legislation.
He retired in 1993 from the Federal Government.
In 1995 he was recruited by the Barents Consulting
Group (now Bearing Point) in Washington and
was posted as a tax advisor to Moldova, a former
Soviet Republic.
In 1999 he was posted to Skopje, Macedonia,
part of the Yugoslavia Republic, and eventually
served as chief of party until 2004. Following
a short term assignment to Cairo, he became
chief of party of the Jordanian Fiscal Project,
returning yet again in 2007. He had just returned
from consultations in Hanoi, Vietnam related
to their new tax withholding law.
He was a passionate bibliophile, amassing a
2500 volume library located at the Cherry Creek
Inn. He was active in historic preservation
while owning a historic house in Hyattsville,
Md., and was instrumental in moving historic
tax credits legislation forward in Maryland.
He is survived by his devoted wife of 41 years,
Sharon Howe Sweeting, his adopted daughter Renata
(Goce) Petrusevska and grandson, Viktor; a sister,
Shirley Masters and brother, Bill Beare, both
from Syracuse; three nieces: Linda (Ed and grandniece,
Jennifer P. Zinn) Peenstra; Betty (Tom) Gadowski
and Ginny Klering; and nephew, Bobbie Masters.
He was very attached to his Howe family-in-laws:
sister-in-law Kathleen (Larry) Howe Brumagin;
niece, Meredith (John) Bonn, nephew Jerry Manioci,
brother-in-law, Gary (Shelly Lincoln) Howe;
and Patricia Howe.
No calling hours, memorial service will be scheduled
at the convenience of his family. Memorials
may be made to the Cherry Creek Free Library,
P.O. Box 253, Cherry Creek, NY, 14723.
Arrangements by Jordan Funeral Home, Sinclairville.
from The Post-Journal, Jamestown New York
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