Mary Reimers

Independent Enterprise
December 08, 1955

Monday Rites Held For Mrs. Reimers

Final rites for Mrs. Mary Reimers, 84, were held at 2 p.m. Monday at Shaffer Memory chapel. The Rev. Harold Warber officiated at the services and interment was at Riverside.

Mrs. Reimers, a longtime Idaho resident, passed away last Thursday afternoon in an Ontario hospital.

She was born Oct. 24, 1871, in Pappein, Germany, and came to the U. S. when she was 17 years of age. She was married in 1893 in Waterloo, Iowa, to John D. Reimers and they moved from Reinbeck, Iowa, to Payette in 1912. Mr. Reimers died in 1952.

She was a member of St. John's Evangelical and Reformed church and the American Legion auxillary.

Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Loren James of Lebanon, Ore., Mrs. Fred Mink of Council, Mrs. Robert Ryan of Ontario and Miss Lillie Reimers of Payette, and three grandchildren.

NEW PLYMOUTH-Services for Harlan O. Graff, 85, New Plymouth, who died Tuesday in an Emmett nursing home, were conducted Friday at the Shaffer-Jensen Chapel, New Plymouth, by the Rev. Russell Bennett, First Baptist Church, Ontario. Interment was Sunday in Garfield, Wash.

He was born April 1, 1891, in Murphysburo, Ill., where he was reared and educated. He moved in1913 to the Potlatch area where helived until 1970, when he moved to New Plymouth.

Mr. Graff was a member of the First Baptist Church of New Plymouth.

Surviving are two nephews, Charles Hicks, Alderwood Manor, Wash., and Delmar Graff, Clarkston, Wash.