Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....White, Albert Sr. 1939 ************************************************ 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 December 29, 2005, 12:05 am Independent Enterprise 12-28-1939 Independent Enterprise Payette, Idaho Thursday, December 28, 1939 ALBERT WHITE, SR. FUNERAL ON SUNDAY Albert White, one of the well known citizens of this community since 1905, passed away at his residence on Center Avenue following an illness of several months duration. The funeral of Albert White was in charge of Washoe Lodge No. 28, A. F. & A. M., and the Peterson-Foster Funeral home and the body laid in state in the Masonic hall beginning at 9 o'clock Sunday morning. Services were held at one o'clock and Reverend Robert Bonner Echols of the Episcopal church delivered a special address. Interment was in Rosedale Memorial park after the Masonic funeral service had been given. Albert White was born in Knarsborough, England, February 19, 1866. He came to America with his family as a boy and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was married to Miss Anna E. Hymas, September 13, 1887. He moved with his family to Oregon in 1894 and then came to Payette in 1905. He served as rural mail carrier from the Payette post office and was retired in 1932 after more than 25 years of service. He served as representative from Payette county in the 24th session of the state legislature. Mr. and Mrs. White celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary last September. He leaves a wife and four children, Albert E., Mrs. Maude Coates of New Plymouth, Mrs. Florence Hamilton, of Idaho Falls, and Mrs. Edith Hardin of Cascade, eight grandchildren and one great- grandson. He also leaves a sister, Mrs. Samuel T. Woods of Philadelphia. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/id/payette/obits/w/white1189nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/idfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb