Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Connerley, Lee 1921
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Payette Enterprise 6-2-1921
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, June 2, 1921
 
DEATH TAKES HEAVY TOLL
 
LEE CONNERLY
 
The news of the sudden and untimely death of Lee Connerly, foreman of the 
Clinton ranch at the mouth of Willow Creek, was a severe shock to the entire 
community.  So far as was generally known, he had been in the best of health 
and his sudden death was a great surprise.  Last Monday morning, he in company 
with his son, went to the field to repair some fence and about ten o'clock, 
Mr. Connerly went to the house to get a lunch as had been his usual custom, 
and stated to his son, that he would work until noon in the garden.  About an 
hour later, his son after finishing his work started to the house, and on his 
way found his father lying dead on the creek bottom near the edge of the water 
where he had started to cross to the garden.  Word was immediately sent to 
Payette and the body moved to Wood & Spauldings Undertaking Parlors.  No 
inquest was held as all evidence clearly showed that death was due to heart 
failure.  While it was not generally known, Mr. Connerly had been subject to, 
for some time with heart trouble, frequently becoming unconscious.  The 
origination of these spells are said to have been caused by a severe attack of 
Trichinosis some ten or twelve years ago.
 
The death of Mr. Connerly is made doubly sad as at the present time his wife 
is in very poor health and is confined at the home of her sister, Mrs. B. R. 
Fitch, in Payette.
 
It is not only immediate relatives that will keenly feel the loss of this man, 
Lee had a cheerful and friendly disposition that won friends where ever he 
was.  To meet him was to meet cheer and the bright side of life.  He was a man 
among men, and honest to a fault. He was a good neighbor, a kind and 
thoughtful husband and father, in short, he was the kind of a man that makes 
the world better, it is with the deepest sorrow that the people of this 
community must lose from their midst a man of this character.
 
Lee Connerly was born at Waterloo, Neb., February 20th, 1876, and departed 
this life May 30th, 1921.  He moved with his parents in 1896 to North Bend, 
Neb.  At this place he was married to Cora Howard, in December, 1900.  To them 
was born one son, Darrell, now living at Payette.  In 1901 he moved with his 
wife to Kahotus, Wash., and back to North Bend, Neb., in 1906, and to Payette 
in the spring of 1908, where he has made his home until the time of his 
death.  Besides a wife and son, he is survived by three brothers, Jesse, of 
Proctor, Colo.; Harry, of Fremont, Neb., and Guy of Pendleton, Oregon, the 
latter being present at the funeral which was held at the Baptist church, 
conducted by Rev, Buhl, who preached the funeral sermon.

Additional Comments:
Note:  Burial at Riveside Cemetery. The name is spelled CONNERLEY. ch

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