Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Higby, Emma Jean 1992
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Independent Enterprise 8-5-1992
Independent Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Wednesday, August 5, 1992
 
Emma Jean Higby
 
Emma Jean Higby, 66, Payette, died July 28, 1992, at home of cancer.  Services 
were 10 a.m. July 31 at the First United Methodist church, Payette.  The Rev. 
David A Stewart of the First United Methodist church, Payette, officiated.  
Burial followed at Park View Cemetery, New Plymouth, under the direction of 
Shaffer-Jensen Memory Chapel, Payette.
 
She was born Nov. 19, 1925, at Scott City, Kan., a daughter of G. F. and Ada 
B. McReynolds.  The family moved to Monument, Colo., in 1926.  There she 
received her primary and secondary education.  She attended Colorado State 
College of Education and taught several years in the primary grades.  She also 
acted as a substitute teacher in New Plymouth and Payette after moving to 
Idaho.  She married Charles Higby on Dec. 23, 1946, at Monument, Colo.  They 
moved to Greenland, Colo., where they owned and operated the Greenland Land 
and Cattle Co.  They sold this ranch and moved to Payette in 1977 where the 
Higby ranch has been a family operation since.
 
She was a member of Theta Sigma Epsilon sorority, an originating member of 
Douglas County Young Farmers and Homemakers, past matron of Martha Chapter 
O.E.S., a member of the National Child Protection Team of the University of 
Colorado Medical Center, a member of PEO, and a committee person of the 
Republican Party for 30 years.  She was a member of the Monument Presbyterian 
Church, Monument, Co., and the First United Methodist Church, Payette.  Emmie 
never met a person of whom she couldn't make a friend.
 
Survivors include her husband, Charles of Payette; two sons and daughters-in-
law, Charles Pat and Lisa and their children, Jared and Bradley, and Louis Mac 
and JoAnn and their sons, Riley and Kelly, all of Payette; a daughter and son-
in-law, Pamela K. and Michael Wissenbach and their daughter, Sarah, all of 
Boise; two sisters, June Hovde of Boulder, Colo., and Thula Ashbaugh of 
Colorado Springs, Colo.  She was preceded in death by her parents.
 
Memorials may be made to Mountain States Tumor Institute or to the First 
United Methodist Church, Payette, in care of Shaffer-Jensen Memory Chapel, 
P.O. Box 730, Payette, ID 83661

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