Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Chapman, Curtiss 1914
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Payette Independent  8-13-1914
Payette Independent 
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, August 13, 1914

IN MEMORY OF "CURT" CHAPMAN

(Rev. Reed)
Curtiss Palmer Chapman is the full name, but Curt is the endearing form of it 
that everybody learned to love him by. Three weeks ago he was the picture of 
health, hope and happiness. Last Sunday we placed his body in its last resting 
place, amidst the flowers and tears of the entire community. Appendicitis was 
the enemy that entered his strong castle and slew him. He felt the first of it 
on Sunday, July 26, was operated on the following Friday, but the case had 
already progressed too far for recovery. Eight days of courageous suffering 
followed and the end came on Saturday, Aug. 8. The funeral services were in 
the Presbyterian church which was able to accommodate about one third of the 
people who came to bring their tribute of respect for the dead and sympathy 
for those who are left to mourn. Rev. Benj. Smith preached the sermon, and 
the "Misses Thurston and Messrs. Paul Brainard and Lyle Wood sang choice 
selections.

Curt lived his entire life in Payette. He was born Jan. 12, 1893, just ten 
days after his parents arrived here. He passed through our schools and 
graduated with the High School class of 1912. Since then he has been employed 
most of the time by the Idaho-Oregon Electric company and had advanced to a 
membership in the Electrical Workers Union. 

One of the features in the funeral service was the group of young men who not 
only served as ushers and pall-bearers, but came and sat in a body filling a 
large block of the seats. These were his class mates, work mates, and members 
of two local clubs, the "T. B." and the "S. T. A. G.", both of which sent 
sheafs of roses as tributes.

The parents, S. E. and Satie K. Chapman and the brother and sister Irving and 
Mildred, appreciate the kindness shown and sympathy expressed all through the 
period of sickness and death and feel that the friendship revealed is a large 
compensation for the sorrow that has come upon them. The mingling of 
heartaches that are common to mortals make us more akin than anything else we 
experience. So while the death of a man at the morning of life seems a 
disaster, it may yet be in the great ways of God that his twenty-one years of 
life and his early death have had a meaning and a value that only eternity can 
disclose. 

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