From
The Idaho Statesman
Boise, Idaho
(Ada County)
Tuesday, October 14, 1969

Services for Mrs. Edith Ellen Cardin, 82, of 1923 North Ninth, who died Monday morning at a Boise nursing home of natural causes, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Summers Funeral Home by the Rev. Don Ian Smith of the Immanuel Methodist Church. Interment will be at Cloverdale.

She was born Feb. 2, 1887, at Woodlake, Neb., and attended primary schools there. She also attended Chadron Normal School and the University of Wisconsin and was principal of Chadron, Neb., High School. She was married to Nile Latta in 1906; he died in October, 1907. She was married to Oscar Cardin March 12, 1920, at Thedford, Neb. She had taught school in Nebraska and Washington before the family moved to Boise in 1928. She operated her own nursery school for several years and was a member of the Immanuel Methodict Church.

Survivors include her husband, Oscar J. Cardin; a son, Jack Latta; a daughter, Mrs. Ella Marie Fenwick, all of Boise; two brothers, Bert Klingaman, Martin, S.D., and Lloyd Klingaman, Longview, Wash.; a grandson, Nile G. Latta, Coeur d'Alene; a granddaughter, Jacqueline Mayo, Olympia, Wash.; and 10 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a son, James, and by three brothers and two sisters.

Pallbearers will be Fowler Klingaman, Faye White, Royal F. Moody, George Denney, Dale Fenwick and Paul McDonald.

Honorary pallbearers will be James Morris, Ben Minger, Walter Vance and Nile Latta.