Independent Enterprise
Wednesday, May 29, 1985
Services for Guy Lemuel Cockerum, 65, Payette, who died Sunday, May 26, 1985, at his home of natural causes, were conducted today in the Shaffer-Jensen Memory Chapel, Payette, with Rev. Allen Hull of the Payette First Baptist church officiating. Interment with military rites followed in Riverside Cemetery, Payette.
Mr. Cockerum, a civil service employee for the Department of the Army, was born Sept. 10, 1919, at Filer, Idaho, the eldest son of Guy and Cora Cockerum. He moved with his parents at a young age to Payette where he was reared and educated. He married Ora Deskin on Oct. 21, 1944, at West Los Angeles. At the time of their marriage they were both working for the Douglas Aircraft Co. They made their home in the Los Angeles area until his retirement in 1973, then moved back to Payette. Mr. Cockerum spent 32 years in the U.S. Army and the civil service department of the Army. He had also served in World War II and the Korean Conflict.
He was a member of the Elks Lodge in Weiser and a member of the Forresters in Boise. He was an avid square dancer for over 30 years and a member of the Border 8'ers of Ontario, Ore.
Survivors include his wife, Ora Willis Cockerum of Payette, a daughter, Mary Sue Fowzer of Pleasanton, Calif.; a son, Guy Lee Cockerum, of Payette; four sisters, Alma Lee Etta Alexander, Hazel Clare Cockerum and Geardine Margaret Cain, all of Payette and Dorothy Jean Payne of Moscow; three brothers, Forrest Hawes Cockerum of Payette, Eugene Burton Cockerum of Boise and Richard Carlyle Cockerum of New Plymouth; three grandsons, Rick and Ron Fowzer both of Manteca, Calif. and Don Fowzer of Pleasanton; a granddaughter, Terry Fowzer of Pleasanton, and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins. He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and a set of infant twin girls.
Memorials may be made to a favorite charity.
