This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Scritchfield, Brainard, Cree Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/1194.2 Message Board Post: The Payette Independent Payette, Idaho Thursday, January 28, 1926 MRS. A. P. SCRITCHFIELD PASSES Former Payette Lady Dies Suddenly At Weiser of Mastoid Trouble Late Monday evening Mr. E. C. S. Brainard received the news that Mrs. A. P. Scritchfield, daughter of Mrs. Mary Cree, of this city, was suddenly stricken with mastoid trouble following an attack of influenza, and was not expected to live. Mrs. Scott Brainard, sister of Mrs. Scrichfield, was visiting at the Brainard home and she and Mr.. Brainard drove to Weiser at once, only to find that hope had been abandoned by her physicians. The gathering in Mrs. Scritchfield's head broke and burst her ear drum but the poisonous puss was not thrown off and went to her brain. Death followed at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon during which time the unfortunate lady was relieved of the suffering, which would have followed, by unconsciousness. Death came quietly and peacefully. With her at the time was her husband and children, her sister, Mrs. Scott Brainard, and brother, John Cree, who reached her bedside Tuesday morning. The mother was visiting a son at Eugene, Oregon, and they did not arrive until after her death. Funeral services were held in the Methodist church in this city at 2:30 this afternoon, the Rev. V. E. Hall officiating, and interment took place at Riverside cemetery. A more extended obituary will be published next week.