Esther Cole
(Did you mean Earl Singleton, known as es?)
(April 29, 1924 – December 2024)
Es Cole (née Esther Douglas), was a California fan, and a member of the Elves, Gnomes & Little Men's Science Fiction, Chowder & Marching Society. She was on the concom of SFCon (the 1954 Worldcon in San Francisco), along with her her husband, Les Cole, who co-chaired it with Gary Nelson.
The couple met when they were students at the University of California, Berkeley; they married in 1947 and attended their first convention, Nolacon, in 1951, where Bob Bloch started a rumor that Es and Les were 15-year-old twin brothers.
The Coles gafiated after SFCon and didn’t return to fandom until 1993.
Es survived Lester in 2019, along with their sons Dana and Lance.[1] As of early 2020, she was alive and well in Ventura, CA.[2] With Carin Wofford, Es published Neighborhood Watch, a light mystery novel, in 2013.
- Autobiographical statement in Scientifiction: The First Fandom Report New Series #53 (3rd Quarter, 2017, p. 5).
- “I Married a Science Fiction” by Esther Cole, Mimosa 16, December 1994.
- “Remembering Les Cole” by Es Cole, File 770, January 7, 2020.
- "The Gods of Rushmore" (a fanoir of her return home from Chicon 2), reprinted in Scientifiction: The First Fandom Report New Series #55 (1st Quarter 2018).
- Orgasm (with Les Cole and Lee Jacobs)
Awards, Honors and GoHships:
- 2017 — First Fandom Hall of Fame
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- ↑ “Lester H. Cole, Past Worldcon Co-Chair, Has Died,” File 770, January 7, 2020.
- ↑ “Es Cole is Alive and Well in Ventura,” by John Hertz, File 770, January 22, 2020.
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