NAMPA — Requiem Mass for Dr. Casper Sommer, 85, of 924 13th
Ave. S., will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Paul's
Catholic Church by Father Ellis Carver Jr., S.M.
Rosary devotions will be recited at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the
Shepherd Mortuary. Interment will be at Mt. Calvary
Cemetery. Dr. Sommer died Thursday at a
Nampa hospital. He was born Aug. 12, 1884, at Lucerne,
Switzerland, and came to the United States in 1906. He
lived in Texas and Wisconsin before moving to Imperial, Calif.
He graduated from San Francisco Veterinarian's College in 1917
and began his practice in Cottonwood. He
married Monica Frei at Cottonwood in 1921 and they lived there
and in Wendell and Meridian where he practiced and farmed.
He retired from farming in 1956 and they moved to Nampa where
he continued to practice as a veterinarian until his
retirement in 1961. He was deputy state
veterinarian during his practice in Idaho, and was a member of
the American Veterinarians Association and of St. Paul's
Catholic Church. Surviving are his
wife; three sons, Casper J. Sommer, Richland, Wash., Robert J.
Sommer, Nampa, and Leo H. Sommer, Meridian; six daughters,
Mrs. Christine Klotz and Miss Mary Sommer, Portland, Ore.,
Wilma Sprute, Echo, Ore., Mrs. Rita Larson, Nampa, Lt.
Commander Irene Bridges, Cherry Point, N.C., and Mrs. Dorothy
Griffen, Seattle; and 35 grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by four sisters and a brother. |