Idaho County Death Notices

Charles Ryan

Charles Ryan, 67, died at a local hospital yesterday morning. He had been a resident of Canfield, Idaho, for 40 years. Surviving him are four brothers, G. C. Ryan, Canfield; D. E. Ryan, Auburn, Wash.; Cecil Ryan, Pocatello, and J. A. Ryan, Blue Mountain, Ill.

Furneral services will be Wednesday morning at 10 at Vasser-Shaughnessy-Rawls, the Rev. L. C. Hicks officiating. Interment will be at Normal Hill cemetery.

Source: Spokane Daily Chronicle, March 25, 1936
Submitted and transcribed by Sandra Davis

Lee Smith

The body of Lee Smith, formerly a bartender at Grangeville was found near Kamiah, with the throat cut and several knife wounds on the body. It is thought the man was insane and that he had suicided.

Source: Soda Springs Chieftain, September 15, 1904
Submitted by Shauna Williams

Carol Walenta

Mrs. Carol Walenta, 73, a former Wallace resident and a graduate of Wallace High School, died recently in Grangeville, Idaho. She was born in Jardine, Montana, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Olson and came to Wallace as a child. She graduated from high school here in 1920. Mrs. Walenta was one of three women in the first class to receive a degree in business administration at the University of Idaho in 1925. After graduation, she headed the business department at the Vale, Oregon high school for two years. She later taught in Minneapolis and Moscow. She married Thomas R. Walenta in 1927 in Vale and they moved to Grangeville four years ago, after he retired from the faculty of the University College of Law. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Walenta is survived by two daughters, Nancy (Wayne C.) MacGregor, Grangeville, and Donna Jo (Roesch A.) Fitzgerald, LaGrande, Oregon, and ten grandchildren.

Source: The Wallace Miner, February 27, 1975
Submitted by Sandra Davis

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