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Idaho County Free Press
Thursday, May 2, 1946
JOHN F. SAMSEL, WAR I VETERAN, DIES, BOISE
John F. Samsel, 49, died at the veterans hospital in Boise
Monday morning April 29, where he had been a patient for ten days. He had been
in ailing health for several months but it was only recently his condition
became critical.
He was born June 18, 1896 in Stockton, Mo., and the family came to Idaho three
years later, locating at Genesee for one year and then taking a homestead on the
newly opened Indian reservation near Winona. He attended the Lamb school near
there.
In July 1917 he enlisted in Company E, Idaho National Guard, and served with the
Second Division Combat Engineers in Europe, participating in five major
engagements and later serving the army of occupation. He was discharged in
October 1919, and was employed by the forest service for the next five years.
He was married to Bessie Mae Asker on December 22, 1923 in Grangeville and moved
to a farm in the Winona section where they remained until ten years ago when
they bought a stock ranch near White Bird which had since been the family home.
He was a member of the Grangeville post of the American Legion
Submitted by Chris
Cornett
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