The Payette Independent
Thursday, December 02, 1926
MRS. TOOLE PASSES AWAY
Word was received on Thanksgiving Day that Mrs. J. J. Toole has passed away at a hospital in Rochester, N. Y. that afternoon at four o'clock. No exact details of the cause of her death have yet been received, but it is known that she had been in poor health for several months past. She left Payette in June in order to be with an invalid brother in Rochester.
Elizabeth Gavin, who was the widow of the late John J. Toole, came to Payette as a bride in the late Eighties, and up to the time of her husband's death in 1911, Mrs. Toole made her home on the beautiful Toole ranch, four miles north of town. during the last few years, after selling the old home, Mrs. Toole divided her time between Portland, the East, and Payette.
She was one of those charming personalities who seem to make and hold friendships without any effort, but of all her many friends, it is only those closest to her, who know of how very much she did for charity, giving, not publicly, but giving where her gifts would do the most, and never willing speaking of her gifts. Mrs. Toole was a devoted and devout communicant of the Roman Catholic Church, and in her Church, in her charities and in her wide social circle, she leaves a void that may not filled. Many there are in Payette who remember the delightful gatherings at the hospitable 'Toole Place" with its charming hostess and genial host.
As yet nothing is known as to Mrs. Toole's last hours or the arrangements for her funeral.