Donald Kester Sr.

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

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