This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nye, Roney Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/2199 Message Board Post: Payette Enterprise Payette, Idaho Thursday, July 6, 1922 MARGARET RONEY-NYE Margaret Roney was born in the state of Nebraska, March 20th, 1895, died at Spokane, Washington, June 28, 1922. At the age of 11 years she became a member of the Baptist church at Scotts Bluff, and superintendent of Sunday School at the age of 14, later coming to Idaho where she attended High School and affiliated with the Methodist church, moving to Decatur, Illinois, in 1914, where she attended business college for 18 months and two years at Remedies Western University at Bloomington, Ill., two years nurse training in Macon County Hospital at Decatur, all medical work and nurse training being taken to fit her for missionary work, and would have left for service in West China this year, had she not been married March 3rd, 1921. She served as a Red Cross nurse at Bloomington during the "flue" epidemic and was superintendent of a class of 100 girls as standard bearers, for three years, always working spare time among the slums in Decator for Methodist missionary service. Funeral services were conducted at the Baptist church, Sunday, July 2nd, at 2 P. M., Rev. C. L. Walker of the Methodist church, officiating assisted by Rev. C. W. Buell, pastor of the Baptist church.