Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Pomeroy, Stephen Loren 1973
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Independent Enterprise 11-8-1973
Independent Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, November 8, 1973
 
Stephen L. Pomeroy
 
NEW PLYMOUTH - Services for Stephen Loren Pomeroy, 85, of New Plymouth, who 
died Thursday at an Ontario hospital, were conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the 
New Plymouth Shaffer-Jensen Memory chapel by the Rev. Earl Traughber of the 
New Plymouth Congregational Church.  Interment followed at Park View.
 
Mr. Pomeroy was born Aug. 5, 1888, at Dunreath, Iowa.  He attended schools in 
Iowa and earned a civil engineering degree from Iowa State College.  He was a 
civil engineer for the Northern Pacific Railroad Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad 
of Canada.
 
In 1913, he moved to New Plymouth and homesteaded near Falks Store.  He 
married Mabel Evelyn McFarland at New Plymouth on  Nov. 29, 1917.  He took 
over management of the McFarland ranch that year and bought his own ranch in 
1934.  In 1948 he retired and moved into New Plymouth.
 
He was a member of the Congregational Church of New Plymouth.  He had been a 
commissioner for Highway District 2 and a Payette County commissioner for 26 
years.  He had served several years on the Payette County Fair Board and was 
past master of New Plymouth Grange 250.  He had been a lay delegate in the 
general council of the Congregational Christian Church on two occasions.  He 
was a member of the New Plymouth Chamber of Commerce.
 
Survivors are his wife, New Plymouth; a son, George W, Cincinnati, Ohio; three 
daughters, Mrs. R.V. (Ruth) Talbot, Camarillo, Calif, Mrs. John G. (Fern) 
Anderson, Boise and Carol J. Pomeroy, Bonners Ferry; nine grandchildren and a 
great-grandchild.
 
The family suggests memorials to the New Plymouth Congregational Church 
Memorial Fund or flowers may be sent.

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