Independent Enterprise
Wednesday, January 21, 1987
PAYETTE - Forrest Hawes Cockerum, 62, Payette, died of natural causes, Saturday, Jan. 17, 1987, in an Ontario hospital. Services were conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, in the Payette First Baptist Church. Pastor Peter Clay officiated, assisted by Lowell Stidolph, under direction of the Shaffer-Jensen chapel, Payette. Burial followed in Rosedale Memorial Gardens, Payette.
He was born June 30, 1924, at Payette, a son of Guy and Cora Carico Cockerum. He was reared and educated in Payette and graduated from Payette High School in 1942. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He married Irenee Vera Walker in September of 1947 at Payette. That same year he began working for the U.S. Postal Service. Irenee died in September of 1967. He married Emma Kuntz Boles on March 25, 1969, at Payette. He retired from the Postal Service as postmaster of Payette in 1979.
He was a member of the Baptist Church; past member of the Ontario Elks Lodge; a 15-year member of the Payette Kiwanis club; and a member of SISCRA where he had served as a past board director, and was treasurer at the time of his death.
Survivors include his wife, Emma of Payette; a son, Forrest L. "Skip" Cockerum, Tillamook, Ore.; two daughters, Jan Marie Tarter, Payette, and Patrice Elizabeth Arnold, Ontario; two stepsons, Michael E. Robinson, San Francisco, and Bradley P. Boles, Boise; a step-daughter, Dawn Marie Boles, Farmington, N.M.; two brothers, Eugene Burton Cockerum, Boise, and Richard Carlyle Cockerum, New Plymouth; four sisters, Alma Lee Alexander, Hazel Claire Cockerum and Geraldine Margaret Cain, all of Payette, and Dorothy Payne, Moscow; a granddaughter, Terra Marie Tarter, Payette; a grandson, Jacob Alexander Tarter, Payette; and a stepgrandson, David Kenneth Boles, Farmington. His parents, three brothers, Guy, Bobby and Dwight, and a set of twins died earlier.
