Information for Dr. Casper Sommer
12 August 1884 - October 1969
From The Press-Tribune
Contributed by Dennis McIndoo



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Dr. Casper Sommer

     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.


 

 

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