John W. Smith
Funeral Rites Set for Today
Funeral services will be held at
11:30 a.m. Wednesday for John
Walter Smith, 74, retired stationary engineer, in the Geo. A. Brewer Funeral Chapel, 3603 Ross, The Rev. Paul Frank, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, will officiate.
Burial will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park.
Smith, who lived at 6327 Glendora, died Tuesday in a Dallas hospital.
A native of Mississippi, he came by wagon train to Mount Pleasant in 1894.
His first job in Texas was with the Santa Fe Railroad and he was transferred by the company to Dallas in 1900.
Two years later he joined the Dallas Ice, Light & Power Company and remained there as chief engineer until 1935. This company was reorganized twice during this period, becoming the Dallas Ice Factory and late the Kler Kold Ice Company.
He became associated with the Pollock Paper & Box Company in 1935 and served as stationary engineer until his retirement in 1950.
His wife died in 1945.
Surviving are three sons, J. Walter Smith of Tulsa, Okla.; C. D. Smith of Dallas and Albert E. Smith of Houston; two daughters, Mrs. Walter C. Humann and Mrs. J. D. Allison; one brother, Ed L. Smith of Chickasha, Okla.: one sister, Mrs. Lucy Pease of Petersburg, Va, and ten grandchildren.
Pailbearers will be Oskar Grunow, R. G. Venema, Vernon Allison, Karl Lehmkuhl, Martin Collins and Edmond Johnson.
Funeral Rites Set for Today
Funeral services will be held at
11:30 a.m. Wednesday for John
Walter Smith, 74, retired stationary engineer, in the Geo. A. Brewer Funeral Chapel, 3603 Ross, The Rev. Paul Frank, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, will officiate.
Burial will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park.
Smith, who lived at 6327 Glendora, died Tuesday in a Dallas hospital.
A native of Mississippi, he came by wagon train to Mount Pleasant in 1894.
His first job in Texas was with the Santa Fe Railroad and he was transferred by the company to Dallas in 1900.
Two years later he joined the Dallas Ice, Light & Power Company and remained there as chief engineer until 1935. This company was reorganized twice during this period, becoming the Dallas Ice Factory and late the Kler Kold Ice Company.
He became associated with the Pollock Paper & Box Company in 1935 and served as stationary engineer until his retirement in 1950.
His wife died in 1945.
Surviving are three sons, J. Walter Smith of Tulsa, Okla.; C. D. Smith of Dallas and Albert E. Smith of Houston; two daughters, Mrs. Walter C. Humann and Mrs. J. D. Allison; one brother, Ed L. Smith of Chickasha, Okla.: one sister, Mrs. Lucy Pease of Petersburg, Va, and ten grandchildren.
Pailbearers will be Oskar Grunow, R. G. Venema, Vernon Allison, Karl Lehmkuhl, Martin Collins and Edmond Johnson.
John W. Smith
Funeral Rites Set for Today
Funeral services will be held at
11:30 a.m. Wednesday for John
Walter Smith, 74, retired stationary engineer, in the Geo. A. Brewer Funeral Chapel, 3603 Ross, The Rev. Paul Frank, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, will officiate.
Burial will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park.
Smith, who lived at 6327 Glendora, died Tuesday in a Dallas hospital.
A native of Mississippi, he came by wagon train to Mount Pleasant in 1894.
His first job in Texas was with the Santa Fe Railroad and he was transferred by the company to Dallas in 1900.
Two years later he joined the Dallas Ice, Light & Power Company and remained there as chief engineer until 1935. This company was reorganized twice during this period, becoming the Dallas Ice Factory and late the Kler Kold Ice Company.
He became associated with the Pollock Paper & Box Company in 1935 and served as stationary engineer until his retirement in 1950.
His wife died in 1945.
Surviving are three sons, J. Walter Smith of Tulsa, Okla.; C. D. Smith of Dallas and Albert E. Smith of Houston; two daughters, Mrs. Walter C. Humann and Mrs. J. D. Allison; one brother, Ed L. Smith of Chickasha, Okla.: one sister, Mrs. Lucy Pease of Petersburg, Va, and ten grandchildren.
Pailbearers will be Oskar Grunow, R. G. Venema, Vernon Allison, Karl Lehmkuhl, Martin Collins and Edmond Johnson.
Funeral Rites Set for Today
Funeral services will be held at
11:30 a.m. Wednesday for John
Walter Smith, 74, retired stationary engineer, in the Geo. A. Brewer Funeral Chapel, 3603 Ross, The Rev. Paul Frank, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, will officiate.
Burial will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park.
Smith, who lived at 6327 Glendora, died Tuesday in a Dallas hospital.
A native of Mississippi, he came by wagon train to Mount Pleasant in 1894.
His first job in Texas was with the Santa Fe Railroad and he was transferred by the company to Dallas in 1900.
Two years later he joined the Dallas Ice, Light & Power Company and remained there as chief engineer until 1935. This company was reorganized twice during this period, becoming the Dallas Ice Factory and late the Kler Kold Ice Company.
He became associated with the Pollock Paper & Box Company in 1935 and served as stationary engineer until his retirement in 1950.
His wife died in 1945.
Surviving are three sons, J. Walter Smith of Tulsa, Okla.; C. D. Smith of Dallas and Albert E. Smith of Houston; two daughters, Mrs. Walter C. Humann and Mrs. J. D. Allison; one brother, Ed L. Smith of Chickasha, Okla.: one sister, Mrs. Lucy Pease of Petersburg, Va, and ten grandchildren.
Pailbearers will be Oskar Grunow, R. G. Venema, Vernon Allison, Karl Lehmkuhl, Martin Collins and Edmond Johnson.
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