Harriett Eleanor Knight

(Harriett) Eleanor Yadon Knight, born September 22nd, 1938, left her beautiful mountain home for her eternal home with Jesus on June 18th, 2026. She loved her husband John, raised her kids Tammy, John and Lori, enjoyed all her grandkids and great grandkids, but her passion was always Jesus.

In her early life her dad worked as a cowboy and a miner so she grew up in many places, but her favorite was Twin Falls Idaho on Ramage Street where she attended Bickle School. She kept some lifelong friends from those days. Later her family, parents Emmett and Della, brothers Floyd and Thomas and little sister Sherry, moved to Hailey Idaho. While in high school she worked in a day care, as a care giver and a waitress. She graduated class of 1957 as a member of the National Honor Society.

In August of 1957 she married John Earl Knight.  They moved to Boise where she attended Business School which she very much enjoyed and excelled at. Later came children, Tammy, John A.  and Lori. John’s work took the family on many adventurous moves in Nevada often camping in the mountains and deserts. In 1970 the family moved to Pendleton Oregon and in 1971 to the promised Mountain property John had seen many years before when he was in the Army.

Eleanor later worked as bookkeeper at the Tapadera Motel and Pendleton Ford. She also was a lab technician at Pendleton Flour Mill.  She did a mountain of volunteer work at church cleaning the building, teaching classes, publishing the bulletin, making peanut brittle to hand out with gospel tracks while knocking on doors most Saturdays. She has a strong heritage of truth speakers concerning the Gospel of Jesus Christ no matter the cost. Even though she herself wasn’t publicly outspoken her ministry was always providing Bibles, prayer and resources for anyone that could use them.

In her later years she loved thrift shopping, a gift she passed down to many of us. She mastered ordering her groceries on line and working her iPhone. She stayed up with the times and current events. She always prayed for Israel and President Trump. She kept a daily diary of little and big happenings, just like her mama did. Her Bible was always with her. She was feisty and sassy and onery. She’d say that was her Irish comin out! She’s passed plenty of that down too.

She was very thankful for her heritage as an enrolled Shawnee Cherokee and grateful that that small amount of blood quantum allowed her the privilege to receive health care services at Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center. She often said how proud she was of the CTUIR and how far they have come in the choices made for the community.

One of her last conversations was with a great grandchild and she spoke Jesus to him. She said “I’m going to heaven and I won’t be watching over you. See that you get yourself there. I want to see you again”

That is her invitation to all of us.