The Payette Independent
Thursday, August 29, 1929
DEATH OF MRS. GORTON
Mrs. J. B. Gorton, nee Addah Mary Arner, was born in Pennsylvania, March 8, 1870, and passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Pat Short, at Grant's Pass, Oregon, on August 21, 1929. At the age of ten she with her mother and brothers went to Antelope county, Nebraska, her father having died two years before. In May 1891, she was united in marriage to J.B. Gorton, and to this union two boys and three girls were born. One boy, Byron, died in Payette in 1915. They came to Hailey, Idaho in 1899 and a few years later came to Payette. About a year ago they moved to Oregon.
Mrs. Gorton is survived by her husband, J.B. Gorton, of Dexter, Oregon, J. Arner Gorton of Ryderwood, Wash., Lola Fletcher of Long Beach, California, Fern Short of Grants Pass, La Rue of Payette, three brothers, John and Jesse Arner of Crawford, Nebraska, and Harry Arner of Lewiston.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church here on Sunday, August 25, 1929, and interment was made at the Riverside cemetery.
