HomeMy Public PortalAboutCallender, Josephine and ErnestJosephine A. Callender
Josephine A. Callender Sme-
thurst, 84, of 3317 N. 28th, Boise,
died Monday, Dec. 1, 1986, in a
Boise nursing home of natural
causes.
Funeral services will be held at
11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, at
Cloverdale Funeral Home. Rev.
- Don Ian Smith will officiate. Pri-
vate burial will be in the Emmett
Cemetery.
Mrs. Smethurst was born Nov.
15, 1902, at Eureka, Calif., a
daughter of Joseph and Sarah
Martin. She was reared and edu-
cated in Medford, Ore. She mar-
ried Ernest Callender in 1921 at
Medford. They moved to McCall
in 1930 where they established a
meat market and grocery store,
operating it until 1943. At that
time they purchased the Stadium
Club in McCall. Mr. Callender
died in 1946. Josephine continued
to operate the club for the next
couple of years, then moved to
Boise to live with her son, Donald,
for a short time. She then married
Walter Smethurst and they
moved to Salt Lake City, living
there until his death in 1965. She
then returned to Boise where she
had since resided.
Survivors include a son and
daughter-in-law, Donald R. and
Velma M. Callender of Boise; a
brother, Joseph Martin of Sun
City, Calif.; a sister, Jean Witter
of Medford; and several nieces
and nephews.
Friends may call today from 9
a.m. until service time at the
Cloverdale Funeral Home in
Boise.
1881
in The Statesman
A RICH STRIKE: SILVER CITY
— There is considerable excitement
over the new strike in the Booneville
Mine, on Florida Mountain, out of
which specimens to the amount of
forty pounds yielded $1,400 and over,
being pounded out in a hand mortar
the last day or two.
The mine is at present leased by
Frank Massay and others.