Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Violett, Francis 1980
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Independent Enterprise 2-28-1980
Independent Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, February 28, 1980
 
Francis Violett
 
FRUITLAND - Services for Francis Violett, 77, of Fruitland, were conducted 
Monday at the Shaffer-Jensen Chapel, Fruitland, by the Rev. Earl Traughber, 
Fruitland Church of the Brethren, interment followed in Parkview Cemetery, New 
Plymouth.
 
Violett, who died Friday in an Ontario hospital, was born Dec. 25, 1902, in 
New Rockford, N.D.  He moved with his grandparents in Downey in 1909 and then 
to Boise in 1919, where he graduated from high school.  He married Fern 
Campbell on June 7, 1931.  He worked in the office of the Boise-Payette Lumber 
Co. for 20 years.  While living in Boise, he was superintendent of Sunday 
School at Wright Community Congregational Church for many years and acted as a 
draftsman for the rebuilding of the church after a fire in 1940.  He moved to 
Fruitland in 1945 where he owned and operated Violett Mercantile.  He was 
elected the first president of the Fruitland Chamber of Commerce in 1947.  He 
was instrumental through his work with the Chamber of Commerce in the 
incorporation of Fruitland as a city in 1948.  He was the city clerk and 
served at City Hall for 19 years until his retirement in 1967.
 
He was a member of the Fruitland Church of the Brethren.
 
He is survived by his wife of Fruitland, one son, Byron Francis Violett of 
Long Beach, Calif.; two sisters, Jessie Lasich of Dillon, Mont., and Nellie 
Doornbos of Sheridan, Mont.; two brothers, Willis and Archie, both of Lothair, 
Mont.; and several nieces and nephews.
 
The family suggests memorials he made in the Fruitland Church of the Brethren.

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