Odessa B. Knight Obituary, Ada County, ID
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Odessa B. Knight, 82, of 3003 Overlook Dr., Boise Sunday, Oct 2, 1988, 
in a Boise hospital of natural causes.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday Oct 6, at the King 
of Glory Luthern Church. Pastor C. Emerson Vedell will officiate under 
the direction of Alden-Waggoner Chapel. Burial will follow in Dry Creek 
Cemetery.

Mrs. Knight was born March 15, 1906, Nevada, Missouri, a daughter of Ray 
and Mary Daharsh. She spent most of her early life in the Payette area. 
She obtained her teaching certificate from  North Idaho Teachers College 
and taught for several years in Fruitland, Wallace, Homedale and 
Sandpoint, Idaho. In 1931 she married Ralph Knight. They managed various 
farming and ranching operations in Idaho, Washington, and Iran until 
their retirement in Boise in 1972.

Mrs. Knight was a past member of PEO.

To her last day, Dess was an active person with a keen interest in life 
and great love for her family. Her death will change the lives of many 
of us.

Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Larry and Kaye Knight of 
Boise; a brother, Otis Daharsh of Boise; a sister Gladys Knight of 
Boise; five grandchildren, Kathryn Waddel of Auburn, Ala., Kelley Knight 
of Chicago, ILL., Kristin Hicks of Boise, David Knight of Ketchum and 
Karin Knight of Tacoma, Wash., and one great-grandchild, Christopher 
Ross Hicks of Boise. Numerous additional friends and relatives mourn her
loss. Her husband, Ralph died 1981.