Independent Enterprise
Wednesday, September 14, 1983
Margaret "Micky" R. Harter
Services for Margaret "Micky" Repp Harter, 71, Payette, who died Monday, Sept. 12, 1983, in a Payette nursing home, will be conducted at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15, in the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Payette, with Elder William K. Mansker and Elder Leon Cornforth officiating. Interment will follow in the Riverside Cemetery, Payette, under the direction of the Shaffer-Jensen Chapel of Payette.
Mrs. Harter was born on Oct. 29, 1911, in Globe, Ariz., daughter of Frank and Julia Knornschild. The family moved with her parents to Glendale, Calif., where she graduated from the Glendale Academy. Margaret had worked in the Glendale Sanitarium. She married Alex Repp in February of 1931 at Glendale. They moved to Prairie City, Ore., in 1936, where her husband was administrator and anesthetist of the hospital.
In 1940, they moved to Payette to administrate the Payette Hospital. Mr. Repp died in August of 1944. She moved to Walla Walla, Wash., in 1944, and married Virgil Harter on Jan. 19, 1946, in Pendleton, Ore. They made their home in College Place, Wash. In October of 1954, they moved to Payette where they administrated the Payette hospital. They later purchased the property and hospital building, eventually rebuilding it into the present skilled nursing care known today as the Casa Loma Convalescent Center. They semi-retired in December of 1968, and traveled the Southwest visiting family and friends. She was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Payette.
Margaret wrote many poems, among them, "Musings of a Grandmother" was published in the book, "World Treasury of Great Poems" in 1980.
Survivors include her husband, Virgil of Payette; two sons, Don Harter of Wenatchee, Wash. and David Harter of Boise; two sisters, Beryl Folts of Torrance, Calif., and Virginia Nicholson of Hollister, Calif.; a brother, Frank Knornschild of Watsonville, Calif.; and five grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two sons.
Friends may call Wednesday from 4 to 9 p.m. at the Shaffer-Jensen Chapel of Payette.
