Gooding-Bear Lake County ID Archives Obituaries.....Pugmire, Emerson October 12, 1964
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Cheryl Bills cherylbills@gmail.com January 31, 2010, 3:53 am

Newspaper --unnamed, prob Gooding Leader
Emerson Pugmire, 65, prominent Gooding county civic leader and Hagerman mayor 
was killed instantly in a one-car accident about 10 pm Monday four and nine-
tenths miles south of Bliss on Hwy 30.  According the Sheriff Verne Royse, Mr. 
Pugmire's 1959 Cadillac struck and killed two horses owned by Mr. and Mrs. Bud 
Smith, Bliss.
Mr. Pugmire who was well-known in the Magic Valley for his work as director of 
the South Central Idaho district Health Unit and Highway 30 Association as well 
as his long service as Gooding county commissioner, died of a broken neck, the 
sheriff said. He was enroute home from a meeting of the Hospital board in 
Gooding.... the car struck the guardrail after hitting the horses. One of the 
horses was thrown over the hood of the car smashing the windshield.
Mr. Pugmire was born in St. Charles, Idaho Dec 4, 1898 and grew up in the Bear 
Lake Country. He lived in Montpelier as a young man and did construction work in 
Logan and Collingston, Utah. He worked on construction of the American Falls 
Power Plant and was transferred to Hagerman where he was operator of the Lower 
Salmon Falls plant. In 1944, he and a son, Marion Pugmire purchased the Cady 
Auto Company.  (His many accomplishments are listed.  Last pg of article 
missing)     

Additional Comments:
I have newspaper clippings of the death of Emerson Pugmire.  He is not related to 
me, but was the Bishop who married my parents, Billy W Harmon and Eunice Wayment 
and was highly loved and respected by them.  I will be happy to post the jpeg 
photos of these obits.

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