Sadie Donaldson

The Payette Independent
Thursday, May 02, 1929

MRS. DONALDSON DEAD

Mrs. Sadie Donaldson, formerly of this place, died at Portland, Oregon, Monday.

Mrs. Donaldson is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Alspach of this place.

Mrs. Frank Fuller had been with Mrs. Donaldson the past few weeks, and Mrs. E. E. Parsons and George Alspach left Tuesday for Portland.

Funeral services were to be held today.

The Payette Independent (Thursday, May 09, 1929)

OBITUARY

Mrs. Sadie Alspach Donaldson was born December 6, 1885, at Carroll, Iowa, and departed this life, April 29, 1929, at Portland, Oregon, aged 43 years, 4 months and 23 days.

The deceased came to Payette in the Spring of 1904, with her parents Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Alspach, attended the local High School that spring and the following year graduated. She attended the Normal School at Lewiston, Idaho from which she graduated. She was a teacher of wonderful ability and a woman of rare personality, being gifted as a leader in any community in which she resided. She was teaching in the Lewiston High School when she took sick about four years ago. She went to Portland with her husband and after this period of suffering during which every possible effort was made to recover her health, she passed on into the great beyond in a hospital in the above city. Funeral services were held from the Miller and Tracy Undertaking Parlors, Thursday afternoon, May 2nd at 3 o'clock. Interment was in the Riverview Cemetery at Portland.

Mrs. Donaldson is survived by her husband, M. C. Donaldson; one son Sam; her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Alspach of this city, one brother, George Alspach, northeast of Payette; a sister, Mrs. E. E. Parsons, residing at Boise; other relatives and many friends. May our Father in Heaven comfort and sustain her surviving relatives in their hour of bereavement.