Obituary - Paul W. Mulalley

Paul Mulalley dies at 68

Paul W. Mulalley, 68, former owner and operator of Lewiston's Turf Club tavern, died at 7:50 p.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph's Hospital of heart failure. He had been ill for the past three years.

Mulalley owned the tavern at 842 Main St. from the late 1940s until his illness forced him to sell the business in 1973 and retire.

An all-state basketball guard at Genesee High School, he was employed from 1943 until 1945 by the Lewiston Police Department and the Idaho State Patrol.

Mulalley graduated from high school in 1929. He attended the University of Idaho, Lewiston State Normal school and Gonzaga University at Spokane. He played on high school and college varsity baseball, basketball and football teams. His favorite sports was football [sic]. Mulalley also enjoyed working in his yard and traveling.

Mulalley was born Sept. 23, 1908, at Genesee to Pat and Ida Mulalley. He lived there until 1935 when he moved to Moscow. He moved to Lewiston in 1943. He and his wife, the former Pearl Hisel whom he married at Moscow Dec. 26, 1936, lived at 1618 14th Ave.

He is survived by his widow; a son, David Mulalley of Yakima; a daughter, Linda Mulalley of Lewiston; three sisters, Irene Berger and Olive Wardrobe, both of Lewiston, and Mary Kane of Spokane; and a granddaughter.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Vassar-Rawls Funeral Home at Lewiston. The Rev. J. Stanley Lyman will officiate. Burial is at Normal Hill Cemetery.

Unknown newspaper, (handwritten date May 24, 1977)

Rememberance

The Lewiston Tribune says Paul (Pat) Mulalley has died. I first remember little Pat in his highchair eating with his family when they lived "down on the flat" in Genesee and so did I. He had lots of cute curly yellow hair and and big blue eyes and was the apple of the eye in that family.

Later when we grew some more, he and Mardie Hickman got to be a nuisance to us older girls. But we played many a game of Pump Pump Pull-away, Run Sheep Run, etc., etc. Then I finished high school and went to the University in Moscow. Pat then was big and fast and turned out among 16 lads for the 11-man football which a new coach named Guy Wicks taught. He was pretty young looking and Mrs. Hordemann, the German music teacher found him playing the piano in the Assembly Room and ordered him out. Only to blush and apologize when he turned out to be the new Principal.

Ed (Skinny) Weber told me this morning that those lads who played such good ball and even beat Moscow the second year, 1926-'27 were: Pat at tackle, Lawrence and Elmer Kraut, Ip Flomer, Clarence Aherin, Chet Qualey, Lew and Frank Bumpass, Roy (Tuffy) Cameron, Ormand Mosman, Clarence (Bub) Doyle, Archie Putnam, Harold Hallman, Tony Abel, and Art Kleweno. What fun they were! Guy held special every one of them, worried about diet and pimples that got to be carbuncles, girls who tangled them up, studies which had to be kept at a high level, schedules, and ways of transportation (they went to Craigmont by train once while Guy had the measles, alas), but carried on anyways thoroughly exposing everybody. He lived in a coldish room and corrected papers in his overcoat with gloves on. Of that rich interlude, Pat emerged a favorite.

When it came for college for Paul's son, he came to see us and matters were dealt with. And when Guy died, I had warm messages from this dear man. At his anniversary party recently, we had such a good visit. This is what I shall try to remember.

Sincerely,
Grace (Jain) Wicks

Unknown newspaper, (no date)
Transcribed by Jill Leonard Nock

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