Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Patch, Joseph T. 1911
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Payette Enterprise  9-7-1911
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, September 07, 1911

DEATH OF JOSEPH T. PATCH

Saturday afternoon the people of Payette were generally pained to learn of the 
death of Joseph T. Patch at the home of his son, General L. V. Patch in this 
city. Although for the past year Mr. Patch had been in poor health he had 
still been able to be up and about most of the time and his friends did not 
think his condition was at all serious. The news of his demise came as a 
distinct shock to his wide circle of friends and there was genuine sorrow in 
Payette when it became known.

Joseph T. Patch was born in Mount????, Vermont, September 25, 1838, where the 
early part of his life was spent. Arriving at man's estate he moved from there 
to Gawandy, New York , and later taught school in Buffalo for a short time 
afterward entering the State University of Michigan from which he graduated 
with high honors. After leaving the university he went to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa 
where for twelve years he practiced law and was united in marriage to Mary E. 
Vernan, daughter of Dr. J. B. Vernan, a Methodist minister. He moved from 
there to Omaha, Nebraska, where for twenty years more he engaged in the 
practice of law. A large law business coupled with an intense zeal for his 
profession finally undermined his health and about nine years ago he came to 
Idaho to spend his remaining days with his son General I. V. Patch, of this 
city. The first few years of his residence here were very beneficial and he 
regained his health until the last year during which time he seemed to 
gradually grow weaker until on Saturday, September 2 at six p. m. he answered 
the final summons and peacefully closed his eyes in the last strange sleep. He 
was the father of four children, three girls and one boy, Mrs. Gordon P. 
Mikker of Prosser, Washington, and General L. V. Patch, of this city the only 
surviving ones, his wife having died some fifteen years ago in Omaha. He has 
one brother living, Prof. J. V. D. Patch, of St. Joseph University, and one 
sister, Mrs. E. C. Colkins, of Kearney, Nebraska, wife of E. C. Colkins, 
Supreme Court Commissioner of Nebraska.

During his residence in Payette, Joseph T. Patch became known as a gentle, 
kindly, aged man of sterling quality and exceptional citizenship. Early in 
life he united with the Unitarian church and while there was no church of his 
denomination here he lived the latter part of his life in Payette quietly but 
with a well known regard for high ideals in every walk of life.

The funeral services were held at the Methodist church in this city Tuesday 
afternoon at two thirty being conducted by Rev. Howarth. The large concourse 
of friends and acquaintances that gathered to pay their last sad tribute to 
this citizen and the many beautiful floral offerings were all evidence of the 
universal esteem in which he was held.

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Note:  Burial at Riverside Cemetery. ch 

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