Independent Enterprise
Thursday, April 09, 1942
John Freemont McClure, son of James W. and Harriet Mc Clure was born December 31, 1863 at Farina, Illinois. He homesteaded at Curtis, Nebraska at the age of twenty one. In 1892 he married Beatrice Howe, who died two years later. On January 30, 1896 he married Mary E. Williams. She died May 16, 1936. They came to Idaho in September 1902 and have since lived on the family ranch east of Fruitland. He is survived by three sons, James W. of Nampa, Earl T. and Ray E., both of Payette, four grandchildren, and two brothers, James W. in Elnora, California, and Hugh A. of Kinmindy, California. He united with the Church of the Brethren at the Valley View school house. He and his wife are both charter members of the Fruitland Church of the Brethren.
The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Walter S. Coffman Wednesday afternoon at two thirty, at the Brethren church. Landon's had charge of the burial in the Riverside cemetery in Payette. Pallbearers were A. T. Bishop, N. A. Peacock, Earl Amick, John Beeler, Albert Mohler and James Deal. Mrs. Coffman played the piano and the quartette, Mrs. L. Z. Schubert, Miss Mary Beeler, Lyle Brown and Ben Shank, sang. Mrs. S. W. High and Mrs. Frank Eldredge had charge of the flowers.
