Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Thayer, Maggie Quick 1920
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Payette Enterprise 4-8-1920
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, April 8, 1920

PASSING OF MRS. THAYER

Through the divine dispensation of "Him who doeth all things well" there has 
been removed from our midst, Mrs. Maggie Quick Thayer, who passed away at the 
home of her daughter, Mrs. Mark Prindle, in Payette, Wednesday, March 31st, at 
6:55 p.m.

The subject of this sketch was born at Buchanan, Michigan, June 25th, 1850, 
and was united in marriage with G. F. Thayer August 19th, 1869 at Buchanan, 
Michigan. Three children were born to the union, Eva May, who passed away at 
the age of ten months; Carrie Mabel, wife of Mark Prindle, of Payette; and 
Fred are left without the kind care and comfort of a wife and mother.

Col. and Mrs. Thayer came to Payette from Aneta, North Dakota, fifteen years 
ago and cast their lot with the people who had chosen the Payette Valley as 
their home, and ever since have been ever diligent in building up the great 
commonwealth of Idaho.

About three months ago Mrs. Thayer was stricken with influenza which later 
developed heart complications, and to which she finally succumbed.

Mrs. Thayer was of that kind of people who chose to work in a humble way, who 
sought not fame or fortune, but who was in deep earnest about doing the thing 
that needed to be done today. No finer thing need be said to her than that she 
was the kindest, the most helpful of neighbors, patient in all things, 
generous to faults. Her husband testifies in strongest terms of her fidelity, 
her genuine companionship and her unswerving loyalty to the doing of the 
helpful acts that she found in her patient, daily toll. Her neighbors feel a 
distinct loss because she has gone away. The community bears testimony to her 
quiet, unassuming worth. She was rich in the qualities that stand for all that 
is stable in life's realities. Many a traveler on life's way has found 
refreshment and cheer, been inspired with new hope, his doubts in the final 
issue of life dispelled by her touch.
"I see from my house by the side of the road,
By the side of the highway of life,
The men that press on with the ardor of hope,
And the men that are faint in the strife.
And I turn not away from their smiles and their tears--
Both parts of an Infinite plan.
Let me live in a house by the side of the road.
And be a friend of man."

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