Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Gorton, Byron Edwin 1915
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Payette Enterprise 3-25-1915
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, March 25, 1915

BYRON EDWIN GORTON

It was indeed a shock last Thursday when the word passed round that Byron had 
died in the morning of that day. His sickness was so brief that many had not 
heard of it. But those who knew its severity from the first were heavily 
anxious all though the week that it lasted.

Pneumonia was the ailment and it had made great progress when the Doctor first 
got to him. He died at 9:30 Thursday and was buried Saturday, the funeral 
services being at the Presbyterian Church.

He was sixteen years and five mo. of age and had lived all but eight months of 
his life here in Payette, the parents Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gorton having moved 
here from Crawford, Neb. when then he was but a baby. He had gone up through 
our schools to the Sophomore class and the active class was out to express 
their sorrow at the funeral services. Also his Y.M.C.A. Bible study Club were 
out in a body.

The outstanding feature of his character was vivacity. There was never any 
dull time where he was. And yet his pleasantries and drolleries were not of 
the stinging sort. He was universally liked and so is universally held in 
tender memory, which may make it that his life so brief shall count for more 
than that of many who drag out many more less helpful years. 

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