Ralph E. Knight Obituary, Ada County, ID
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Services for Ralph E. Knight, 76, of 3789 Clacton Way, who died December 
9, 1981, in a Boise hospital, will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday in 
Relyea Mortuary by Pastor Bill Williams of King of Glory Lutheran
Church. Interment will be in Dry Creek Cemetery.

He was born January 23, 1905, in Clear Lake, South Dakota. He graduated 
from Meridan High School in 1923. He married Odessa B. Daharsh on May 
15, 1931, in New Plymouth. He graduated from the University of Idaho in
1935. He was farm superintendent for the University of Idaho in
Sandpoint and Aberdeen from 1935-51. He operated a cattle ranch in 
Loomis, Washington, from 1952-58. They moved to Idaho Falls in 1958 and 
he worked for the  Idaho Crop Improvement Association  until 1961. He 
was pilot farm director for Resources Development Corp. in Iran from
1961-63. They farmed in Salmon from 1963 until he retired in 1972, and 
then they moved to Boise.

Survivors include his wife and a son, Lawrence L., both of Boise; three 
brothers, Ray of New Plymouth and Lynn and Kenneth,  both of Boise; a 
sister, Ruth Brandel of Boise; and five grandchildren.