Independent Enterprise
Thursday, August 15, 1968
Lorell L. and Mabel E. Dick
Funeral services were conducted Saturday at the Payette Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for Lorell Lee Dick, 69, and his wife, Mabel Elizabeth Dick, 68, both of whom died in an auto-train crash in Payette last Wednesday.
Bishop Robert L. Kane of the LDS church officiated and interment, with military honors, was at Riverside under the direction of Shaffer-Jensen Memory chapel.
Mr. Dick was born July 7, 1899, at Lawrence, Neb., came to Spokane with his family in 1903, and moved to Buhl in 1905, returning later to Spokane by covered wagon, where they resided until 1912, when they returned to Buhl.
He began working for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1917, and served during World War 1 as a balloonist with the Army in France. He suffered wounds during the war.
Returning to the Rupert area after the war, he married Mabel Elizabeth Brewerton at Burley on August 14, 1921. The marriage was solemnized in the Idaho Falls Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on August 29, 1964.
The family moved to Nampa in 1923, and to Payette in 1924, where they had resided since. Mr. Dick had farmed at Payette since 1946, and retired from railroad work in 1966, after 49 years of service.
He was a member of the LDS church, a charter member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post at Payette, and was serving as post commander at the time of his death. He also was a member of the Veterans of World War I and was active in the American Legion.