Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Ashcraft, Charles Rennell 1988
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Independent Enterprise 8-24-1988
Independent Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Wednesday, August 24, 1988
 
Charles Rennell "Charlie" Ashcraft
 
Charles Rennell "Charlie" Ashcraft, 74, Payette, Idaho, died Aug. 18, 1988, at 
home.  Graveside services were at 10 a.m. Aug. 23 at Riverside Cemetery, 
Payette.  His son Rennell Ashcraft, Boise, officiated.  Services were under 
the direction of Shaffer-Jensen Memory Chapel, Payette.
 
Mr. Ashcraft was born Oct. 25, 1913, at Grand Junction, Colo., a son of 
Charles and Edith Ashcraft.  His family moved to St. Anthony, Idaho.  He was 
raised and educated there, graduating from St. Anthony High School in the 
class of 1931.  As a young man he worked for the Forest Service and a 
Chevrolet garage.  He served in the U.S. Army in Great Britain during World 
War II.  After the war, he returned to Idaho.  He attended the Elgin 
Watchmaker's College in Elgin, Ill., graduating in 1947.  He owned and 
operated a watch repair shop in Grace, Idaho for three years.  He moved to 
Payette in 1951, and then farmed and repaired watches in Fruitland until his 
retirement in 1961.
 
Charlie enjoyed reading and vegetable and flower gardening.  He was a member 
of the Disabled American Veterans of Payette.
 
He is survived by three daughters, Lee McBride, Vale, Ore., Sharon Nott, 
Grants Pass, Ore., Martha Cannon, Vale; four sons, Charles Ashcraft, Payette, 
Rennie Ashcraft, Boise, Dick Ashcraft, Benton, Wash., and Bob Ashcraft, 
Honolulu, Hawaii; two sisters, Erma Ashcraft, Meridian, Idaho and Verla 
Richards, Park City, Utah; 15 grandchildren, 1 great-grandchild expected in 
September, and numerous nieces and nephews.
 
His parents, a sister, Edith Ellen Gee, and a daughter, Charlene Grace, died 
earlier.
 
Memorials may be made to the Payette Chapter of the Disabled American Veterans.

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