Clifford H. Button Obituary, Ada County, ID
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Services for Clifford H. Button, 98, of 1221 Hays, who died Thursday in 
a Boise hospital, will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the 
Alden-Waggoner Chapel by the Rev. David Decker, First Christian Church. 
Interment will be in the Star Cemetery.

He was born Aug. 28, 1878, in Butler Center, Iowa, and lived his early 
years in Kansas and Missouri. He went to school in Missouri and later 
attended teacher's college at Warrensbury, MO., and at the University of 
Missouri. He was superintendent of schools at Liberal, MO., Golden City, 
MO., and Barton County, MO.

He married Bessie Pence, Jan. 22, 1911, in Mt. Vernon, MO. He was a 
manager of a lumber company in Golden City and in 1910 was cashier for 
the Golden City First National Bank. He moved to Parma in 1927 where he 
was assistant cashier for the Parma National Bank.

In 1936 he moved to Boise and worked for the Boise-Payette Lumber Co., 
until 1953 when he retired. From 1959 until 1974 he worked for the 
Alden-Waggoner Chapel.

He was a member of the Christian Church where he served on the board of 
directors, a 50-year member of the Masonic Lodge and Ada Odd Fellows No. 
3.

Surviving are a son, Harold, Boise, and a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Greenlee, 
Boise, six grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.