Obituary : William Arthur Chubb
William Chubb
William A. Chubb, 80, former publisher of the Sandpoint News Bulletin and
former owner of the Bonners Ferry Herald, died Friday at Sacred Heart Medical
Center in Spokane. Private funeral services will be held under the direction
of the Bonners Ferry Funeral Home. He began his newspaper work with the
Cumberland Advocate, Cumberland, Wis., in 1922. He moved to Sandpoint in
1929, where he was employed by the Sandpoint Bulletin. In July 1944, he
purchased the Northern Idaho News. In Sept. 1 of that year, he was
instrumental in bringing about the consolidation of the Bulletin and the News
into the Sandpoint News-Bulletin. He worked with L. E. Pietsch and S. O.
Maxwell as co-publishers until he purchased the Bonners Ferry Herald on
Feb. 1, 1946. The Herald was in the Chubb family until it was purchased by
Pend Oreille Printers in 1978. He is survived by his wife Carol; two
brothers, Arthur of Sandpoint and Pat of Mountain Home, and three sisters,
Katherine Young and Margaret Harkness of Spooner, Wis. and Clara Evans of
Sandpoint.
W. A. "Bill" Chubb
Former Bonners Ferry Herald Pulisher W. A. "Bill" Chubb, 80, died
Friday at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane after a short illness and
complications from kidney failure. Private family service will be planned
with Bonners Ferry Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. He was born
Sept. 24, 1903, at Cumberland, Wis. In 1929 he came to Sandpoint, where he
was employed by the Sandpoint Bulletin. Mr. Chubb purchased the
thrice-weekly North Idaho News at Sandpoint in 1944. Shortly after that
purchase, he was invited to join the other Sandpoint publication and it
became the Sandpoint News Bulletin. He bought one-half interest in the
Bonners Ferry Herald in 1945 and later acquired the other interest.
(Private) purchased the Bonners Ferry Herald
in 1969. He centered much of his civic work with the Bonners Ferry Chamber
of Commerce and served in many chamber capacities, including president. In
the early 1960s, Mr. Chubb served one session in the Idaho Senate. With
flower gardening as a hobby, he made his home into a floral showplace and
was instrumental in planting flowers and grasses along the Bonners Ferry
bypass when that project was completed. Mr. Chubb and Carol Borg were
married in 1937 at Newport, Wash. Survivors include his wife, at the
Bonners Ferry home; (Private); three sisters,
including Clara Evans of Sandpoint; two brothers, Art Chubb of Sandpoint and
Pat Chubb of Mountain Home, Idaho; and nine grandchildren.
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