Independent Enterprise
Wednesday, September 14, 1983
Services for Daisy May Knight, 68, of Payette, who died on Wednesday, September 7, 1983, in an Ontario hospital, were conducted at 10 a.m. on Monday, September 12, in the Shaffer Jensen Chapel, Payette, with the Rev. Donald Shover of the Fruitland Highway Assembly of God Church officiating. Interment followed in the Riverside Cemetery, Payette.
Mrs. Knight was born on May 7, 1915, in Liberty, Mo., a daughter of Walter and Lucy Alcorn. She moved at a young age with her parents to Kansas where she was reared and educated. She married Merle Knight on Jan. 20, 1933, in Paola, Kan. They moved to Payette in 1945, and she had worked for many years for Ore-Ida in Ontario until her retirement in 1977.
She was a member of the Highway Assembly of God Church in Fruitland.
She is survived by her husband, Merle of Payette; three sons, Gerald of Boise, Wes of Anacortes, Wash., and Mike of Ontario; a daughter, Merlene Calkins of Fruitland; four sisters, Gertha Bodley of Yakima, Wash., Amy Dodds of Seattle, Roxie Crocker of Topeka, Kan., and Mable Tarwater of Harrisville, Mo.; and five grand children.
