CALDWELL Services for Gertrude Kimzey, 78, of Caldwell Route
1, who died Friday, will be conducted at the Flahiff Funeral
Chapel at 1;30 p.m. Thursday by the Rev. Gerry Yeager of the
First Christian Church. Interment
will be at Middleton Cemetery.
Mrs.
Kimzey was born Jan. 1, 1895 at Meeteetse, Wyo., and moved
to Boise
when she was 12. She
attended school there and married John Kimzey in 1912 in
Meridian.
They homesteaded on
the Boise
River
above Arrowrock Dam. Mr.
Kimzey died in 1935 and she moved to Middleton in 1941.
She
was a member of the Boise First United Presbyterian Church and
a former member of the Middleton Grange.
Surviving are five daughters, Mary Sorensen of Santa Rosa,
Calif., Edith Garrett of Caldwell, Esther Best of Priest
River, Emma Garrett of Whitebird, and Nina Erwin of Oregon
City, Ore.; two sons, Robert Kimzey of Star and John Kimzey of
Woodland, Calif.; a brother, Phil Gehman of Hagerman; a
sister, Ruth Clancy of Burns, Ore.; 22 grandchildren; and 26
great-grandchildren. She
was preceded in death by a son.
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