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Home My Public Portal AboutMcFall, Valeria1 E I VALERIA McFALL Written By: Helga M. Cook January third is a memorable date in the annals of Valeria Chapter. It commerorates the birthday of Valeria McFall, 'The Valeria' for whom our Chapter was named. Although Sister McFall "Auntie Mack' as we loved to call her, is here only in spirit, she would want us to make it a day of cheer. Her consistent cheerfulness, and her magnanimous desire to give service to others were her most outstanding qualities. She always rose from Life's hard knocks with a smile and continued to face the futurewith faith and optism. She had the devine gift of sensing the mental struggles and worries of others, and the God-given power of alleviating and soothing troubled minds. The skies were bluer --the grass greener --the sun was brighter --Life was easier after a visit with Aunty Mack. Valeria Allen McFall was born in Springfield, Missouri, January 3, 1858. There she spent her childhood and attended school. She taught school for two years, but was called home to attend her mother at the birth of her youngest sister, Gwen. She married John Lacy McFall on November 23, 1877, when she was not quite twenty years of age. They had four children, Jessie, Frank, Lawrence and Alice Fay. Jessie was the mother of Wayne Richardson. She died at Roseberry in 1905. Mrs. McFall added Wayne to her family and became both mother and Grandmother. Frank is still living in Boise. Lawrence died in May 1944. Alice Fay, the youngest, at the age of only three months succumbed to whooping cough. John McFall for eight years was Assistant Assessor at Mt. Vernon, Missouri and in 1888 was elected Assessor. Mrs. McFall often worked in his office with him. But more often she assisted her cousin Dr. Paris with his maternity cases. His practice took him to the distant Page 2 - Valeria McFall, Vritten By Helga M. Cook farms and settlements and they made their trips with horse and buggy, or if the roads too bad, on horse back. She often said "I've had many babies in my life --some under favorable conditions, and some where there were no preparations whatever had been made --not even a clean rag." The McFalls took up a homestead near Roseberry, Idaho in May 1903. For 43 years Valeria McFall called Idaho her home. Her husband was frail and Mrs. McFall even during her homestead years, served, cooked and nursed for others. Times were hard, but she was dauntless. While she worked, she turned clouds inside out to find the silver lining. For years when no doctor was available in Long Valley she was called to the home of the sick and she made countless races with the stork in all kinds of weather and road conditions. Her Long Valley babies would fill this Chapter room too overflowing. November 23, 1927 was a memorable date to the McFalls. Friends and relatives joined in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of John and Valeria McFall at the Community Church. She was as pretty that night as a blushing bride. Seven years later, her husband, long an invalid, passed on and 1,-,ter in May 1944 her son Lawrence. She often said she was glad and thankful to her Lord that she was spared to care for them to the Last --so long she desired to live. In June 1946 her services of love completed, with her hand in that of the Great Creator she, too, stepped into the Great Beyond, leaving behind her a legacy in memories of Happiness and Joyful Living to all of those with whom she came in contact. She needs no other earthly monument than the name "Valeria" as it is Inscribed on the books of Our Chapter. To us, the name Valeria has crown synonymous to Joy, Gladness, and Loving Service. The Star in the East has now one brighter ray--Valeria. Subject: McFall, Valeria Address: Date: 1 By Helga M. Cook The Valeria Chapter, January third, her birthday Born in Springfie.d, Missouri, January 3, 1858 taught school there Married John Lacy McFall, November 2j, 1877 Four children, Jessie, Frank, Lawerence and Alice Fay. F John McFall, 8 years, Assistant Assessor at Mt. Vernon, Missouri Homestead near Roseberry in May 1903 November 23, 1927, 50th Anniversary John died, 19.34 She died, 1946, in June t C 'I/(3 ,Lakes - //laws - Reminiscing With Old Folks Although Past 70, "Aunty Mac" McFall —to Her Friends o Donnelly and McCalI—Is Still the First One to Whom They Look in Time of Need McCALL (Special) — Valeria Allen McFall was born in Spring- field, Mo., anuary 3, 1858. One of her earlieyt recollections was the night her mother walked the floor all night while her father was out scouting for the Union army. Her parents moved to Kansas when she was 8 years old, where her father homesteaded a quarter section of land upon which the city of Clay Center is now. Roving 'bands -rot Indians often passed the place, and werenever turned away if they wanted food. Two years later the family moved back • to Missouri. Valeria attended school in Spring- field and was married to John Mc- Fall November 23, 1877. In 1902 Mr. and Mrs. McFall and children moved to Indian Ter) itory but were compelled toleave on ac- count of Mr. McFall's health. They. came to Idaho in April, 1903, where they took up a homestead near Donnelly. Of the many heroic women, pioneers of Long valley, one stands out above all others —Mrs. Valeria McFall. She it was who never failed to answer the call for help, who welcomed into this world -scores of babies and made the last) moments of others brighter as they passed to their last reward. In the early days ,of the -valley McCall. there were either no doctors: o they were too far away' to be se cured in time. When help wa needed, no road was too long, n weather too stormy or cold, n snow too deep for this "friend ;{ mankind." Although she is 74 years olc "Aunty. Mac," as she is loving] called by her friends, is stIli tij first one to share the joys and sot rows and to lend the helping han to those in need. Mrs. McFall was a charter men, ber of Rock Prairie chapter, O. I S., of Missouri, and was worth matron of the chapter during th years 1897-1898. She is also a chat ter member of Valeria chapte A', A MOTHER IN LAW Don't speak it that way But ♦ery tenderly and softly to me she was a Mother Sensing our ills and troubles, Long before felt or seen by others, Giving a loving ministering hand, Hush---- She's made new in the glory land. Zella McFall ( Franks Wife) To the pieture of Valeria Me all that hangs on the wall of our Chapter Hall and to the divine sweetness of the smile en her dear face we dedicate This wish When wrinkles come As come they will To each one after while May every line Like Hers define The footpath of a smile. PAGE 2—THE STAR-NEWS—THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1974 Zella McFall Early Long Valley resident to note birthday MCCALL—When Zella Davis came by horse and wagon to the Goldfork area with her family in 1888, she was just two years old. Tomorrow the charming pioneer resident will mark her 88th birthday at the Payette Lakes Care Center, where she has lived for the past two years. One of nine children of Goldfork homesteaders Mr. and Mrs. Dave Davis, Mrs. McFall recalls attending the three-month summer school sessions at the old Center and Roseberry schools, and autumn trips by horse cart back down to Ola, where her father wintered cattle. Other childhood memories are of picking huckleberries, riding horses, having a lot of fun and her father's spankings. Her parents both dead by the time she was 16, Zella helped raise her younger brothers and sisters until she married Frank McFall in 1906 and the couple homesteaded a farm on the west side of long Her parents ootn aeaa ay the time she was 16, Zella helped raise her younger brothers and sisters until she married Frank McFall in 1906 and the couple homesteaded a farm on the west side of long Valley. They later moved down to Sunnyslope and then to the Eagle and Pierce Park communities near Boise, returning often during summers to Long Valley. A dedicated churchwoman all of her life, Mrs. McFall has always been a strong advocate of Sunday Schools and a mainstay in Protestant church activities in the various communities in which she has lived. On hand to share her November 8th birthday will be her only daughter, Mrs. Pete Jensen of Donnelly. A son, Carl McFall, now lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, and she also has one living brother, A.B. Davis of California, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. PatuyJensene 7.Serviresrfor Pansy Mc- " talk§c4elikie Jensen, .69, Donnelly;4who; died Tuesda}l, "at • het Needles, Cali'i";4! dome; �+4:were 'Conducted;Sunday in the, McCarltiS'onic Temple by, Valeii" Chapter No.. 76, Order of tlie Eastern Star,:• Interment!followed ins:.:,,giro, Cemetery, Donnelly, ;“ u lAr ` the Heikkila Chapel, -;;McCall., :.'She MIS born. June,14, 19113'n ar ADonnelly, to. Frank and'Zella McFall. She-- giadnated . from Boise HighShcool in-1927, from Linfield College, McMinnviIle, Ore., in 1931. She returned to Donnelly and worked for Fairbrothers Daiiy. She married Ralph; Scheline. onyeb: 20, 1934, in Boise, She taught horde economics, at. McCall-: Donnelly High`School and Cascade High.School. Her. husband died:Uarch 19, She married ,Herman "Pete Jensen on June 1, 1963, in` Donnelly- She was ' the agent for the Valley County University Ex- tension Service from 1959 to 1975. She was a 4-H leader and past, worthy matron of Valeria Chapter No. 76, OES. She was a member of the Upper • Long Valley Grange No. 335, McCall Ladies Golf Association and the Needles Golf Association. She was president of the American Association of University Women. She received a . national honor. 'for Extension Home Economics and was past state president of the Idaho. Extension Home Economists' Association. • Survivors include her husband,of Donnelly; two daughters, Jane Amato of Fort Lauderddle, Fla.,