Grace W. Sodja

Independent Enterprise
Wednesday, November 21, 1979

PAYETTE - Mass for Grace W. Sodja, 77 of Payette, was celebrated at 11 a.m. Monday at Holy Family Catholic Church, Payette, by Rev. Patrick Phelan under the direction of Shaffer-Jensen Chapel. Interment followed in Riverside Cemetery, Payette.

Sodja, who died Wednesday at a Payette nursing home, was born Sept. 26, 1902 at Weeping Water, Neb. to William and Alice Wiley. She moved to Payette in 1907 and was reared and educated at Payette and Weiser. She married Herman Bartles in June 1921 at Parma. He died in 1931. She married Frank Sodja on Feb. 8, 1936.

Surviving are her husband of Payette; a daughter, Delora Bartles of Lake Tahoe, Nev.; a brother, John Wiley of Santa Rosa, Calif.; a grandson; and three great-grandchildren.