DEATH OF MRS. SMITH OCCURRED EARLY TODAY
Devoted Mother and a Good Woman Has Gone to Her Reward.
After a lingering illness death came to Mrs. H. C. Smith at the home on South Dubuque street at 12:25 o’clock this morning. She had been very low for some days past and hope had been given up for her recovery.
Mrs. Smith was sixty-three years, one month, and fourteen days of age and she had lived all her life since she was six years old in this city, her birth place being Westmoreland county, Pa.
Mrs. Smith was a good wife and a devoted mother and her friends were as wide as her circle of acquaintances. She will be much missed on the Methodist church, the Woman’s Relief Corps, The King’s Daughters and the Rebekah lodge, all of which bodies Mrs. Smith was a member and took an active interest in.
She leaves to mourn, her husband, H. C. Smith, four daughters, Mrs. F. L. Barnes, Mrs. E. A. Putnam, Mrs. Arthur Anderson, of Iowa City, and Mrs. H. G. Carter of Chicago; three sons, Will, Harry and Clarence, all of Iowa City. Also a sister, Mrs. F. M. Tillotson, of Davenport, Iowa; and two brothers, John and William Boarts, of Iowa City.
The funeral will take place Wednesday at 3 p.m., from the family home, 602 South Dubuque street. Interment in Oakland cemetery. Source: The Iowa City Citizen (Iowa City, Iowa), Monday, 24 August 1908, page 1.
DEATH OF MRS. SMITH OCCURRED EARLY TODAY
Devoted Mother and a Good Woman Has Gone to Her Reward.
After a lingering illness death came to Mrs. H. C. Smith at the home on South Dubuque street at 12:25 o’clock this morning. She had been very low for some days past and hope had been given up for her recovery.
Mrs. Smith was sixty-three years, one month, and fourteen days of age and she had lived all her life since she was six years old in this city, her birth place being Westmoreland county, Pa.
Mrs. Smith was a good wife and a devoted mother and her friends were as wide as her circle of acquaintances. She will be much missed on the Methodist church, the Woman’s Relief Corps, The King’s Daughters and the Rebekah lodge, all of which bodies Mrs. Smith was a member and took an active interest in.
She leaves to mourn, her husband, H. C. Smith, four daughters, Mrs. F. L. Barnes, Mrs. E. A. Putnam, Mrs. Arthur Anderson, of Iowa City, and Mrs. H. G. Carter of Chicago; three sons, Will, Harry and Clarence, all of Iowa City. Also a sister, Mrs. F. M. Tillotson, of Davenport, Iowa; and two brothers, John and William Boarts, of Iowa City.
The funeral will take place Wednesday at 3 p.m., from the family home, 602 South Dubuque street. Interment in Oakland cemetery. Source: The Iowa City Citizen (Iowa City, Iowa), Monday, 24 August 1908, page 1.
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