Payette Enterprise
Thursday, May 24, 1917
Howard Lauer, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Milt Lauer, passed away Tuesday morning at 12:20 at the Commercial hotel in this city, after an illness of about four weeks. He was first taken sick at Denver, Colo., and was taken to the hospital at that place where he underwent several operations. He rapidly grew worse. Mrs. Lauer and daughter Fay, went after him, arriving at Payette on Friday, May 11th. His case seemed hopeless from the start, and at the time of arriving in Payette was too far gone for medical aid to be of any service other than to relieve his suffering, and passed away shortly after 12 o'clock Monday night.
Howard Lauer was born in Payette August 22, 1895, died at Payette May 22, 1917, aged 21 years and 9 months. He leaves to mourn his untimely death, a father, mother, three brothers and one sister, all of whom are living at Payette. Funeral services were held from the Presbyterian Church Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock conducted by Rev. M. D. Reed. Interment was made in Riverside Cemetery.
