Payette Valley Sentinel
Thursday, October 10, 1963
Rites held in Parma for former NP rural mailman
Services for Clarence Ray Knight, 68, of Parma, who died Saturday night following an extended illness, was held Wednesday at the Kirkpatrick Memorial Community Church in Parma with the Rev. Wayne Wardwell officiating. Interment was at New Plymouth.
Mr. Knight way born May 6, 1895, in Watertown, S.D., and moved to Mesa, Colo., as a child, attending schools there. In 1911 he moved to New Plymouth and was married to Viola Ransom there Oct. 21, 1916. They resided there until 1938 when they moved to Parma, and had resided there since that time.
Mr. Knight was a rural mail-carrier in New Plymouth and Parma for 41 years, ill health causing his retirement in 1961.
Survivors include his wife of Parma; three sons, Lloyd G., of Richland, Ore., William H. of Pendleton, and Terry Knight of Pico Riveria, Calif.; two daughters, Mrs. Lois Hogan of Oakland and Mrs. Bonnie Jemmett of Homedale; two brothers, Lloyd of Corvallis, and Wiley Knight of Brookings, S.D.; one sister, Mrs. Joy Burckhalter, of Clifton, Cold.; 20 grandchildren.
