Daily Argus Observer (Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon)
Friday, February 04, 1977
FRUITLAND - Services for Frank Eugene Eldridge, 92, Gooding, formerly of Fruitland, who died Wednesday in a Gooding nursing home, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Church of the Brethren, Fruitland by the Rev. Earl Traughber. Interment will be in Riverside Cemetery, Payette.
He was born Feb. 10, 1884, in Dunlap, Kan., moved to Idaho in 1904 and settled in the Payette Valley. He married Margaret Jefferies, July 19, 1905 in Payette and they farmed near there until 1948. She died in 1973.
He was a member of the Church of the Brethren, Fruitland.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Opal Dickson, Gooding; Mrs. Velma Amick, Yucca Valley, Calif. and Mrs. Connie Hansen, Juneau, Alaska; a son, Dr. Franklin Eldridge, Lincoln, Neb.; two sisters, Mrs. Rene Brown, New Plymouth and Mrs. Margaret Metzler, Fruitland; a brother Tom, Nyssa; 10 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Friends may call at the church Saturday from 11 a.m. until service time. Services are under the direction of Thompson-Sears funeral Home, Gooding.
