Payette-Washington County ID Archives Obituaries.....Alters, Ethel G. 1986
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Daily Argus Observer 3-6-1986
Daily Argus Observer
Ontario, Oregon
March 6, 1986

Ethel G. Alters

WEISER - Graveside services for Ethel G. Alters, 94, Weiser, who died Tuesday, 
March 4 in a Weiser nursing home, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday in 
Riverside Cemetery, Payette, with Dr. Leonard Reifel officiating, under the 
direction of Thomason Funeral Home, Weiser.

She was born July 14, 1891, at Miller, Neb., the daughter of Michael and 
Frances Burks Lockhart. Mrs. Alters was a newswoman who had worked at a 
variety of jobs on Weekly Newspaper in Idaho and Oregon. She married Ray N. 
Alters, a master printer in 1912 at Grand Island, Neb. The couple moved to 
Sweet, Idaho, where they published the Boise City Sentinel from 1914 to 1917. 
After a brief period in Illinois the family moved to Weiser where Mr. Alters 
worked on the Weiser American. They later moved to Payette where he leased the 
Payette Enterprise then worked on the Payette Independent Enterprise after the 
newspaper consolidated. During World War II Mrs. Alters edited the Idaho 
Mountaineer in Idaho City for her son, Duane who was serving in the United 
States Army. After the war she worked at the Payette Valley Sentinel in New 
Plymouth that was published by her husband and son. After Mr. Alters died in 
an auto accident in 1952 she moved to Nyssa where she operated a linotype for 
her son and daughter-in-law, Duane and Fern Alters. She moved to Boise in 
1960, then lived for several years in Banks, Idaho, where she continued her 
hobbies of hiking and flower cultivation. Her son, Duane, who was born in 1912 
died in 1967. In 1974 she moved to Payette and later to Weiser. In January 
1986 she moved to the Weiser Care Center where she has since resided. She was 
a longtime member of the Fidelity Rebecca Lodge No 7 and attended the 
Community Church in Weiser.

Survivors include a brother, Floyd Lockhart of Payette; a sister, Fay L. 
DeVinaspre of Boise; a daugher-in-law, Fern Anderson of Boise; a grandson, 
Steven R. Alters of Concord, Calif., and two grand-daughters, Diane Alters of 
Boston, Mass., and Kathe Alters of San Francisco, Calif.

Memorials may be made to a favorite charity.

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