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Percy Herbert Coquillette

4 Jul 1866 – 2 Jun 1922

Birth4 Jul 1866
Death2 Jun 1922
CemeteryOnida Cemetery
Onida , Sully County , South Dakota , USA
Added byJane Brehe on 03 Jun 2014
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P.H. Coquillette At his residence in Onida, South Dakota, June 2nd, 1922, occurred the death of our former townsman, P.H. Coquillette. He had been in failing health for the past two years and in an effort to regain it went to the Woodmen Sanitarium last October, and after taking a two months treatment and obtaining no relief, he, accompanied by his wife went to Southern California for the winter. About May 1st he decided to return to South Dakota to look after business matters and arrived in Miller, May 9th, in a very weakened condition realizing he could never recover his health decided to return to Onida, where he arrived on Monday, May 29. He became rapidly weaker and passed away at five o'clock Friday, June 2nd, 1922. Mr. Coquillette became a resident of Miller in 1887 and for years assisted his brother in a general store. He also conducted a furniture and undertaking establishment of his own for several years. He held the office of City Clerk and Justice of the Peace several terms, also County Commissioner of Hand County in the Miller district, and it was through his personal efforts that the County Court House block was planted with trees and the citizens of the county are enabled to enjoy a beautiful shady park today, and he has often remarked that this park is his monument. He took great interest in the Miller Fire Department and was Fire Chief for several years and was also a member of the Board of Control of the South Dakota Firemen's Association at the time of his death. He was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge of Miller, also a member of the Modern Woodmen and Modern Brotherhood of America. His funeral was held at Onida on Sunday, June 4th, and was attended by the Onida Lodge of Odd Fellows and citizens, also a by a delegation of Odd Fellows and relatives from Miller, and he was laid to rest in the beautiful Onida Cemetery. OBITUARY Percy H. Coquillette, son of James and Celestia Wayne Coquillette was born at Prairieburg, Linn County, Iowa on the 4th day of July, 1866, and died at Onida, South Dakota, on the 2nd day of June, 1922, at the age of 55 years, 10 months and 28 days. He was the youngest of a family of eight children, three boys and five girls. The father, mother, one son and four daughters have preceded him to that better land, leaving one brother of Miller, S.D., and one sister in Oklahoma. He was married in 1889 to Miss Carrie Miller of Miller, S.D., and to this union one son, Frank M. Coquillette, was born and who now resides at Onida. In 1915 he suffered the loss by death of his wife. He was married in 1916 to Miss Helen Anderson who survives him. He united in his youth with the Methodist Church, and at the last, felt that all was well with him. He leaves to mourn his death, one brother, one sister, his devoted wife and son and other more distant relatives and a host of friends. The Miller Press, Miller, Hand, South Dakota, Thursday, June 8, 1922, Forty-first Year #29, p1 c3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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