Independent Enterprise
Thursday, January 11, 1945
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FRANK H. HOGUE DIES SUDDENLY
Prominent Business Man Succumbs At Home Early Tuesday
A shadow of sadness was cast over the entire community Tuesday morning when the news spread that Franklin H. Hogue, the city's most prominent pioneer fruit grower and shipper who was widely known in the fruit business throughout the Northwest, had passed on suddenly from a heart attack at his home here early that morning.
Mr. Hogue was at his office at the Payette Cold Storage plant Tuesday and was not apparently ill. He was evidently stricken some time during the night and passed on shortly afterwards.
Coming to the Payette valley in 1909, he was one of the leading pioneers in the fruit growing and ship-ping industry of this section. As the years passed, his interests grew and he became interested in orchards and packing houses in a large way throughout Southwestern Idaho, and in the fruit and berry growing sections of Washington and Oregon. At the time of his death he owned large orchards, in the Payette and Emmett sections; was heavily interested in the dehydrator at New Plymouth; the apple dryer here and other interests and operated the large Payette cold storage plant in this city.
Franklin Hubert Hogue was born May 15, 1875, in Delta, Ohio, a son of William Austin and Martha Hogue. He attended the schools in Delta and on June 13, 1897 was married to Miss Florence Tappan of Delta. They moved to Idaho in 1909 and have made their home in Payette since that time.
He was one of the original organizers of the Growers and Shippers Association of Idaho and served as president for the years 1932 and 1933 and has been a director since its organization in 1928. He was vice president of the Idaho Fruit Finance Company at the time of his death.
Besides his wife, Mr. Hogue is survived by four sons, Richard F. of Richland, Wash.; Frank H., Jr. of Seattle, Wash. and Yuma, Arizona; Denny R. of Twin Falls and Frederick C. of Boise, and one sister, Mrs. Hattie Wiseman of Delta, Ohio.
Funeral services were conducted by Landon's this, Thursday afternoon, at the Church of Christ, with Rev. C. W. Reynolds, officiating and interment was made in Riverside cemetery. Close personal friends made up the list of pallbearers, as follows:
active, Neil R. Fitch, E. H. Murphy, K. L. Johnson, Joe Henggeler, Scott Burbaker, all of Payette, and Lee Bolt of Emmett; honorary, J. C. Palumbo, Raleigh Walker, Weiser, Percy Bolt, Caldwell, Charles Sinclair, John Cahill, W. S. Scott, Lloyd Pence, Harry Evans, Fruitland; Henry Chase, Nampa; A. E. White, Dr. I. R. Woodward, Dr. J. C. Woodward, Kenneth Nash, Boise;
Albert Hobbs, Michael Harris, C. U. Carlton, John Norris, Tony Henggeler, C. C. Springstun, George Donart, Weiser; Frank Arata, E. C. Van Petten, Ontario; Sterling Johnson and J. C. Watson, Sr., both of Parma; Geo. L. Whorton, Ed Parsons, J. R. McKinney, Ellis Hartley, Bernard Eastman, John Bohlin, Emmett; Lawrence Limbaugh, Fruitland; J. B. Daggett, Mesa; Ben Tomlin, George Yost, Emmett; Harry Yost, Boise; Burton Chaney, Bob Fields, Boise; L. V. Patch, Lewis Yoder, Nampa, Carl Korup, A. T. Bishop, Fruitland, Jerome Brubaker and Bryan West.
