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Obituary for Jay R. Lonkey
4 December, 1877 - 3 November, 1959
From The Caldwell News-Tribune,
dated Tuesday, 3 November, 1959
Contributed by
Dennis McIndoo
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Jay R. Lonkey
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Services for Jay R.
Lonkey, 82, of 812 Belmont Street, who died Tuesday morning at
a local nursing home after an extended illness, will he held
at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Flahiff Funeral Chapel. The
Rev. Harold N. Nye of the Caldwell First Methodist Church will
officiate. The Odd Fellows Lodge will have charge of
committal services and interment will be in Canyon Hill.
Contributions may be made to the College of Idaho
memorial fund.
Mr. Lonkey, a pioneer resident of Idaho, was an active
member of the Pomona Grange for many years, a retired farmer
and a former Seventh District Court bailiff. He was a
member of the Caldwell IOOF No. 10, a member of the Middleton
Grange and was a pianist for the Lodge for a number of years.
He was born Dec 4, 1877, in Shiocton, Wis., and was
graduated from business college at Appleton, Wis. He
married Etna Aylesworth on Jan. 7, 1909, at Maiden Rock, Wis.,
and they moved to Caldwell after their marriage. They
purchased 40 acres in the Maple Grove community and farmed
there from 1912 to 1945, when they moved in Caldwell.
Mrs. Lonkey died Dec. 25, 1947.
Mr. Lonkey was employed for a number of years by the
Canyon County weed control and was a field adjustor for the
Cooperative Oil Co.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Jeannette Rice of
Caldwell; a grandson, Richard Rice of Caldwell; three nephews,
Wayne Lonkey of Boise and George Jones of Shiocton; three
nieces, Mrs. Inez Grey of Nenominee, Mich., Mrs. Fern Reitz of
Van Nuys, Calif., and Mrs. Lois Santa of Green Bay, Wis., and
a foster son, John Detweiler of Twin Falls. |
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