Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Holmes, Stella 1926 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/id/idfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cheryl Hanson ihansonb@fmtc.com March 21, 2006, 5:06 pm The Payette Independent 5-27-1926 The Payette Independent Payette, Idaho Thursday, May 27, 1926 FORMER RESIDENT KILLED MRS. STELLA HOLMES MEETS DEATH AND HER SON AND DAUGHTER WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT NEAR LA GRANDE. LA GRANDE, Ore. - One person was killed, three others were seriously injured, and two escaped with minor bruises when an automobile in which they were riding plunged down a 75 food embankment after a collision with another car on a narrow road, Monday evening. The dead - Mrs. Stella Holmes, 57, of La Grande. Seriously injured - R. L. Beath, Mrs. K. Ford and Miss Adella Holmes, all of La Grande. Minor injuries - Roll Beath, Jr., and a son of Mrs. Holmes. Mr. Heath is a brother, and Mrs. Ford and Miss Holmes are daughters of Mrs. Holmes. The other two are children about 12 years of age. The more seriously injured were taken to a hospital in La Grande. Mrs. Holmes was employed as a chambermaid in the Foley hotel here. The accident happened near Perry, three miles west of La Grande. According to the story learned by authorities here the car which struck the Homes car was being driven by Dayton Stoddard a high school student of Nampa, Idaho. The collision occurred when Stoddard was said to have attempted to pass on a narrow stretch of the highway. Stoddard and Miss Hilma Shorn, a school teacher of Nampa and owner of the car, stayed with the injured until physicians and officers arrived. Miss Shorn was on her way home to Seattle. Stoddard was to accompany her as far as Portland, where he was planning to obtain work. Neither of them was injured. Mrs. Holmes and her relatives were on the way to California for a visit with another of her daughters. An inquest was held at La Grande Tuesday afternoon in which the coroner's jury exonerated Stoddard and Miss Shorn. Death, the jury declared, was due to an unavoidable accident, in which no one was to blame. - The Holmes family formerly lived at Washoe and owned a ranch there. Mrs. Holmes, who was killed, had a host of friends in Payette and vicinity and the news of her death came as a shock to them. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/id/payette/obits/h/holmes1974nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/idfiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb