Lee Elwood Surber

Independent Enterprise
Thursday, September 26, 1940

Services Tomorrow For Lee E. Surber

Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon for Lee Elwood Surber who died at his home here Tuesday evening of a heart attack. Services will be held in the Methodist church with the Rev. E. R. Kaemmer officiating. The Peterson-Foster funeral home will be in charge of arrangements and burial will be in Riverside.

Mr. Surber was born at Stanford, Kentucky, Nov. 29, 1878, and educated in the Christian church private school and at Transylvania and Vanderbilt universities. He came to Idaho to farm in 1898. After enlisting in the U.S. army in 1900 he served two years and seven months in the Philippines. On Nov. 1, 1905, he was married to Edna R. Graham in Weiser. He has lived in Payette since 1918. Mr. Surber was employed by the Union Pacific railroad for 15 years until he retired in 1938 because of ill health.

He was a member of the Odd Fellows lodge, the U. S. W. V. and earlier in life was a member of the Christian church. Surviving beside his wife is one daughter, Mrs. Harry Adams of Los Angeles, one sister, Mrs. Hattie M. Ady of Payette, and two grandchildren.