Idaho County ID Archives Obituaries.....Baldwin, James Alfred September 15, 1971 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/id/idfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Chris Cornett cc1952_70@msn.com December 1, 2007, 5:43 pm Idaho County Free Press, Grangeville, ID; September 22, 1971 Idaho County Free Press Thursday, September 22, 1971 SATURDAY RITE FOR J. BALDWIN Kooskia – James Alfred Baldwin, 87, died of a heart attack September 15, at his home on Tahoe Ridge. He worked for the U.S. Forest Service during summers for many years, and with threshing crews. He also drove the stage from Stites to Grangeville. He was born July 21, 1884, in Jackson County, Kentucky. The family settled in Wyoming for a year before going to Willamette, Ore., and then moving to Idaho. Mr. Baldwin homesteaded on Clear Creek near Kooskia and also lived at Grangeville, Kooskia and Cedar Creek. Mr. Baldwin was married to Ella Sense in 1902. She died August 13, 1948. He married Mary Yates June 6, 1953 at Asotin. She survives at the family home. Survivors include two sons, Frank Baldwin, Stites, Fred Baldwin, Lewiston; five daughters, Mrs. Edna Naylor, Osborn; Mrs. Edward (Nellie) Smolinski, Weippe; Mrs. Harvey (Della) Renshaw, Osborn; Mrs. Gerald (Esther) James, Newport, Ore., and Mrs. Arthur (Dorothy) Wirth, Bend, Ore.; a brother, John R. Baldwin, Lewiston; a sister, Mrs. Ernest (Bertha) Heter, Grangeville; three step children, Mrs. Joe (Edna) Campbell, Stites; Mrs. Richard (Louise) Bullock, Grangeville, and Robert Yates, Molalla, Ore; 18 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren and seven step grandchildren. The funeral was Saturday in Trenary’s Chapel with burial in Tahoe cemetery. Rev. Mark Carlton, Kooskia Pentecostal Church of God pastor, officiated. Music and hymns were by Mrs. Mark Carlton and Mrs. Eldon Bomley, Kamiah. Pallbearers were James Baldwin, Dan Baldwin, both of Elk City, Leo Baldwin, Norman Baldwin, Leonard Baldwin and Jeff Baldwin, all of Kooskia. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/id/idaho/obits/b/baldwin2989gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/idfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb