Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Downs, Burton L. 1915
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Payette Independent  2-11-1915
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, February 11, 1915

B. L. DOWNS PASSES AWAY

Berton L. Downs was born at Magnolia, Iowa, March 23, 1867 and died at 
Payette, Idaho, February 6, 1915, aged 47 years, 9 months and 19 days. He 
moved from is birth place to Pender, Nebraska, in 1885. He was married to Miss 
Minnie Belle Osgood August 14, 1890, and moved to Payette in 1903, where the 
family has since resided. He has been engaged in the harness and saddlery 
business during his residence in Payette.

Mr. Downs was a quiet, unobtrusive, inoffensive man; he was not given to much 
talk and pursued his way quietly, attending to his affairs. He did not 
hurriedly form close friendships but when once a friend he remained so to the 
end, as it testified to by those who knew him best. He was a member of the 
Modern Woodmen of America, the Payette Valley Commercial club, was president 
of the Gun club and Director of the Payette Band.

The funeral services were held at the residence on Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 
and was attended by a large number of friends and neighbors. Rev. M. D. Reed, 
of the Presbyterian church conducted a short service and the Mason Lodge of 
which Mr. Downs became a member at Pender, Nebraska, in 1892, took entire 
charge. The rendering of "Rock of Ages" by the band, of whom he was the much 
loved director and which he had trained to a splendid proficiency, as the 
casket, covered beautiful, delicate flowers, was born from the residence to 
the hearse, was sublimely beautiful. A large number of the membership of the 
Masonic Lodge, led by the band which softly played Chopin's funeral dirge, 
marched to the cemetery where the Masonic burial service was rendered in the 
presence of a large crowd of people.

Mr. Downs leaves to mourn his loss a wife, two daughters, Beryl and Leona, 
five brothers, viz: Roy A., Cedaredge, Colorado; George, Bloomfield, Nebraska; 
N. L. Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Will, Spencer, Iowa; F. H., Long Beach, 
California.

His brothers were unable to reach Payette in time for the funeral, some being 
pevented on account of snow blockades. Mrs. W. W. Goodrich, a sister of Mrs. 
Downs, of Reno, Nevada, arrived in time for the funeral service.

CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to the fraternal orders, Payette Band, 
The Gun Club and the many friends who extended to us sympathy and assistance 
in our last bereavement. Mrs. M. B. Downs and Family, Mrs. W. W. Goodrich

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