Posted on 08/27/2019 7:18:47 PM PDT by Idaho Conservatives
Elmore County, Idaho is a beautiful place where the Snake River flows and host of the Mountain Home Air Force Base. It’s a peaceful place where one can live and, hopefully, die in peace.
In the early summer of 2019, Elmore County’s coroner Jerry Rost decided he wanted to retire. He had trained his assistant and deputy coroner of 13 years, Nickie Campbell to replace him. Elmore, like many Idaho counties, elects its coroner during regular election cycles. Rost’s retirement outside an election cycle meant that the Elmore County Republican Central Committee (ECRCC) needed to submit 3 names for consideration to the county commissioners to pick his successor. Rost, a Republican, had recommended Campbell to succeed him and she would go on to work as the director at his funeral home.
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I wonder how Elmore County got its name.
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Gee, I wonder how much it pays to occasionally declare someone dead.
I heard the county paid around $12k per year for the job.
Ya know FR is like crack and meth except nothing is ingested. Except a lot of articles and posts.
I’m gonna get killed if I don’t start catching up on work I need to do around here.
Gonna create a 12 step program.
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Rightabackaatayou.
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“I CAN’T LOG OFF NOW!! WHAT IF I MISS A BREAKING STORY AND EVERYONE GETS TO COMMENT BEFORE ME!!!”
I swear man, it’s a little much lately.
I’m on here so much I should have my mail sent to Jim’s house.
I hear ya. Every half hour I check to see if RBG fell over dead
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Odd that I should encounter this issue from this Elmore Co. locale, amusing though it may be.
In 1944, my newly-married parents, transferred from CO Springs Air Base to Mt. Home Air base, became proud parents of my late older brother in 1945. They first rented an apartment in Mt. Home and later a basement in Glenn’s Ferry. While there, they were shown the wisdom of joining the Elmore County Benevolent Society. It was structured a lot like a pyramid scheme, chain-letter, what have you, in that each member was assessed $15 every time a member died. The idea being that when your “number was up”, your survivors collected $15 from each members via the administrator of the fund; and the dividend was quite substantial (as chain letters get to be).
So my parents dutifully paid in $15 at odd intervals whenever a member died. The notice came on a postcard, forwarded to wherever we moved after Dad’s hitch was up (OK, AZ addresses). That went on throughout my youth and my own early marriage (I’m talking 1970s — 25-30 years into the scheme); then it was over (as always happens with that sort of scheme, which always sounds good at the time). Either my parents quit, or the Society disbanded, I’m not sure. For one thing, I’m unable to turn up any trace of it on Google search.
On reading this article posted here, I was immediately reminded of what my Mom and Dad were part of and it leaves me curious as to exactly what happened with that fund. My parents are both deceased, although my Mom made it to age 97 in full possession of her faculties, thank God).
I wonder if the poster, or any of the readers, are familiar with this.
I’ve not heard this story, but I’ll ask my friends in Mountain Home if they know anything about it.
You’ll know it’s time to put down the mouse and clean the house when you find yourself spraying Lemon Pledge around the room for air freshener. Been there. Back in ‘98. I was really strung out on Clinton impeachment hearings. It was a hell of a good time around here!
Idaho takes its coroner elections a little too seriously. Here is a quote from one who had just won an election in North Idaho:
“It’s my intention that the legacy of the current coroner doesn’t end with him. I’ll use everything I have to make sure you get the best cause of death” — Kootenai County Coroner-elect Debbie Wilkey in Coeur d’Alene Press.
The guy mailing the post cards and collecting the $15 per pop (body) ran off to Thailand?
Coroner is elective. Like a county in Colorado in the 1930s. My aunt got 17%. A female chiropractor republican during the depression didn’t do well.
That’s the one I’m waiting for.
All hell breaks loose.
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