The Lake Charles American Press
Obituary: Frank A. Smith
Date: Monday, 27 Apr 1942
FRANK A. SMITH DIES SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT HOME, RITES TODAY
Manager of American Press Succumbs After Illness of Almost a Year; Services will be at Home At 4 o'Clock
QUIETLY, AS he slept at home, death came Sunday afternoon at 5:15 to Frank A. Smith, 58, secretary-treasurer and manager of the American Press Co, Inc, ending a period of illness covering almost a year.
After what had seemed a period of improvement in the long illness which began last June, he was stricken again about two weeks ago and had been confined to his bed since. Friday night he went into a coma from which he never aroused.
With hope almost abandoned early Sunday morning, he continued the fight for life until Sunday afternoon when death ocurred.
Surviving besides his wife, the former Miss Irene Rhodriguez, are his son, Fred T. Smith; a sister, Mrs. Lillian Cothran, Indio, California; and a grandaughter, Gayle Ellen Smith.
SERVICES TODAY
Funeral service were scheduled for this afternoon at 4 o'clock from the home with Rev. George F. Wharton, rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, and Rev. J. Henry Howdon, pastor of the First Methodist Church, officiating. Interment will be in Graceland Cemetery with Masonic rites to be conducted there. Arrangements are in charge of the Burke Funeral Home.
Active pallbearers will be Arthur L. Gayle, Cliff Liles, Alfred Roberts, R. L. Cline, A. O. King, Terrell Woosley, Allen Rhorer, and Clement M. Moss. Honorary pallbearers will be all of his friends.
Through a period of 38 years of newspaper work in Lake Charles, beginning as a printer, Mr. Smith, in the peculiar manner open to men in his profession, placed his influence behind every move for civic improvement in Lake Charles and this area.
WORKED FOR BRIDGE
In public capacity, he held but two positions during his almost a life time of service in the newspaper field here. During the old Hoover administration he served as chairman of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration for Southwest Louisiana. Some years before he died, he served as chairman of the bridge committee of the Association of Commerce. At his death, he held a membership in the local union of the International
Typographical Union.
Coming to Lake Charles in 1904 as a printer, he worked on the old Lake Charles American, then with the Lake Charles American Press when the Lake Charles American and Lake Charles Press were combined. In 1911, he was named manager of the consolidated papers, which position he held until the time of his last illness.
BEGAN ON PAPER
Frank Armstrong Smith, was born in Cleveland, Tenn., Nov. 23 1884. His parents were Leonidas Theodore Smith, one-time postmaster of Dalton, Ga., and Mary Eleanor McNabb Smith, a daughter of Dr. A. McNabb, one-time city physician at Chattanooga and a granddaughter of Ake Henry, Tennessee statesman of ante bellum times.
His newspaper career began with the selling of the Morning Times in the old Union depot at Chattanooga.
With the removal of his parents to Ardmore, Indian Territory, he attended private school of that city, later entering Hargrove college of that city.
His work on newspapers was resumed after leaving school, serving an apprenticeship on the Montague (Texas) Democrat. After working on various newspapers in Oklahoma and Texas, he came to Lake Charles as a printer, following tht trade until 1911 when he became manager of the American Press, continuing in that capacity until the time of his death.
He was married January 23, 1908, at Lake Charles, to Miss Irene Rhodriguez, to which union was born one son, Fred Taylor Smith.
HELPED RELIEF AGENCIES
Mr. Smith served several years in the Texas National Guard as a member of the Nocona unit. Aside from a chairmanship of the F.E.R.A., inaugruated during the Hoover administration, embracing the parishes of Allen, Acadia, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline, Vermillion, Jefferson Davis and Vernon, he has never held public office.
He went through all the chairs of the Masonic Blue lodges, serving one year as Worshipful master of Lake Charles Lodge No. 165 and is a charter member and was first treasurer of Calcasieu Loege No. 400 F. & A. M. He is a 32nd degree Mason and a Knight Templar.
He was secretary-treasurer of Beatty & Smith, Inc., owners of commercial property and oil royalties. He was president of the Southern Land Sales Corp., owners and developers of Edgemont and Garden Hill subdivisions.
End of obituary.
MEMORIALS TO FRANK A. SMITH:
(as posted in the American Press)
JONES WIRES REGRETS
REGRET OVER the death of Frank A. Smith was expressed today by Governor Sam H. Jones in a wire to the Lake Charles American Press.
"In the death of Frank A. Smith" he wired, "Lake Charles has lost a most valuable citizen. He was devoted to both his journalistic profession and the up-building of Lake Charles and Southwest Louisiana. Even in his last illness, he evinced a keen interest in the industrial growth and future of our community. His passing will be mourned by all who knew him."
Obituary: Frank A. Smith
Date: Monday, 27 Apr 1942
FRANK A. SMITH DIES SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT HOME, RITES TODAY
Manager of American Press Succumbs After Illness of Almost a Year; Services will be at Home At 4 o'Clock
QUIETLY, AS he slept at home, death came Sunday afternoon at 5:15 to Frank A. Smith, 58, secretary-treasurer and manager of the American Press Co, Inc, ending a period of illness covering almost a year.
After what had seemed a period of improvement in the long illness which began last June, he was stricken again about two weeks ago and had been confined to his bed since. Friday night he went into a coma from which he never aroused.
With hope almost abandoned early Sunday morning, he continued the fight for life until Sunday afternoon when death ocurred.
Surviving besides his wife, the former Miss Irene Rhodriguez, are his son, Fred T. Smith; a sister, Mrs. Lillian Cothran, Indio, California; and a grandaughter, Gayle Ellen Smith.
SERVICES TODAY
Funeral service were scheduled for this afternoon at 4 o'clock from the home with Rev. George F. Wharton, rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, and Rev. J. Henry Howdon, pastor of the First Methodist Church, officiating. Interment will be in Graceland Cemetery with Masonic rites to be conducted there. Arrangements are in charge of the Burke Funeral Home.
Active pallbearers will be Arthur L. Gayle, Cliff Liles, Alfred Roberts, R. L. Cline, A. O. King, Terrell Woosley, Allen Rhorer, and Clement M. Moss. Honorary pallbearers will be all of his friends.
Through a period of 38 years of newspaper work in Lake Charles, beginning as a printer, Mr. Smith, in the peculiar manner open to men in his profession, placed his influence behind every move for civic improvement in Lake Charles and this area.
WORKED FOR BRIDGE
In public capacity, he held but two positions during his almost a life time of service in the newspaper field here. During the old Hoover administration he served as chairman of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration for Southwest Louisiana. Some years before he died, he served as chairman of the bridge committee of the Association of Commerce. At his death, he held a membership in the local union of the International
Typographical Union.
Coming to Lake Charles in 1904 as a printer, he worked on the old Lake Charles American, then with the Lake Charles American Press when the Lake Charles American and Lake Charles Press were combined. In 1911, he was named manager of the consolidated papers, which position he held until the time of his last illness.
BEGAN ON PAPER
Frank Armstrong Smith, was born in Cleveland, Tenn., Nov. 23 1884. His parents were Leonidas Theodore Smith, one-time postmaster of Dalton, Ga., and Mary Eleanor McNabb Smith, a daughter of Dr. A. McNabb, one-time city physician at Chattanooga and a granddaughter of Ake Henry, Tennessee statesman of ante bellum times.
His newspaper career began with the selling of the Morning Times in the old Union depot at Chattanooga.
With the removal of his parents to Ardmore, Indian Territory, he attended private school of that city, later entering Hargrove college of that city.
His work on newspapers was resumed after leaving school, serving an apprenticeship on the Montague (Texas) Democrat. After working on various newspapers in Oklahoma and Texas, he came to Lake Charles as a printer, following tht trade until 1911 when he became manager of the American Press, continuing in that capacity until the time of his death.
He was married January 23, 1908, at Lake Charles, to Miss Irene Rhodriguez, to which union was born one son, Fred Taylor Smith.
HELPED RELIEF AGENCIES
Mr. Smith served several years in the Texas National Guard as a member of the Nocona unit. Aside from a chairmanship of the F.E.R.A., inaugruated during the Hoover administration, embracing the parishes of Allen, Acadia, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline, Vermillion, Jefferson Davis and Vernon, he has never held public office.
He went through all the chairs of the Masonic Blue lodges, serving one year as Worshipful master of Lake Charles Lodge No. 165 and is a charter member and was first treasurer of Calcasieu Loege No. 400 F. & A. M. He is a 32nd degree Mason and a Knight Templar.
He was secretary-treasurer of Beatty & Smith, Inc., owners of commercial property and oil royalties. He was president of the Southern Land Sales Corp., owners and developers of Edgemont and Garden Hill subdivisions.
End of obituary.
MEMORIALS TO FRANK A. SMITH:
(as posted in the American Press)
JONES WIRES REGRETS
REGRET OVER the death of Frank A. Smith was expressed today by Governor Sam H. Jones in a wire to the Lake Charles American Press.
"In the death of Frank A. Smith" he wired, "Lake Charles has lost a most valuable citizen. He was devoted to both his journalistic profession and the up-building of Lake Charles and Southwest Louisiana. Even in his last illness, he evinced a keen interest in the industrial growth and future of our community. His passing will be mourned by all who knew him."
The Lake Charles American Press
Obituary: Frank A. Smith
Date: Monday, 27 Apr 1942
FRANK A. SMITH DIES SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT HOME, RITES TODAY
Manager of American Press Succumbs After Illness of Almost a Year; Services will be at Home At 4 o'Clock
QUIETLY, AS he slept at home, death came Sunday afternoon at 5:15 to Frank A. Smith, 58, secretary-treasurer and manager of the American Press Co, Inc, ending a period of illness covering almost a year.
After what had seemed a period of improvement in the long illness which began last June, he was stricken again about two weeks ago and had been confined to his bed since. Friday night he went into a coma from which he never aroused.
With hope almost abandoned early Sunday morning, he continued the fight for life until Sunday afternoon when death ocurred.
Surviving besides his wife, the former Miss Irene Rhodriguez, are his son, Fred T. Smith; a sister, Mrs. Lillian Cothran, Indio, California; and a grandaughter, Gayle Ellen Smith.
SERVICES TODAY
Funeral service were scheduled for this afternoon at 4 o'clock from the home with Rev. George F. Wharton, rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, and Rev. J. Henry Howdon, pastor of the First Methodist Church, officiating. Interment will be in Graceland Cemetery with Masonic rites to be conducted there. Arrangements are in charge of the Burke Funeral Home.
Active pallbearers will be Arthur L. Gayle, Cliff Liles, Alfred Roberts, R. L. Cline, A. O. King, Terrell Woosley, Allen Rhorer, and Clement M. Moss. Honorary pallbearers will be all of his friends.
Through a period of 38 years of newspaper work in Lake Charles, beginning as a printer, Mr. Smith, in the peculiar manner open to men in his profession, placed his influence behind every move for civic improvement in Lake Charles and this area.
WORKED FOR BRIDGE
In public capacity, he held but two positions during his almost a life time of service in the newspaper field here. During the old Hoover administration he served as chairman of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration for Southwest Louisiana. Some years before he died, he served as chairman of the bridge committee of the Association of Commerce. At his death, he held a membership in the local union of the International
Typographical Union.
Coming to Lake Charles in 1904 as a printer, he worked on the old Lake Charles American, then with the Lake Charles American Press when the Lake Charles American and Lake Charles Press were combined. In 1911, he was named manager of the consolidated papers, which position he held until the time of his last illness.
BEGAN ON PAPER
Frank Armstrong Smith, was born in Cleveland, Tenn., Nov. 23 1884. His parents were Leonidas Theodore Smith, one-time postmaster of Dalton, Ga., and Mary Eleanor McNabb Smith, a daughter of Dr. A. McNabb, one-time city physician at Chattanooga and a granddaughter of Ake Henry, Tennessee statesman of ante bellum times.
His newspaper career began with the selling of the Morning Times in the old Union depot at Chattanooga.
With the removal of his parents to Ardmore, Indian Territory, he attended private school of that city, later entering Hargrove college of that city.
His work on newspapers was resumed after leaving school, serving an apprenticeship on the Montague (Texas) Democrat. After working on various newspapers in Oklahoma and Texas, he came to Lake Charles as a printer, following tht trade until 1911 when he became manager of the American Press, continuing in that capacity until the time of his death.
He was married January 23, 1908, at Lake Charles, to Miss Irene Rhodriguez, to which union was born one son, Fred Taylor Smith.
HELPED RELIEF AGENCIES
Mr. Smith served several years in the Texas National Guard as a member of the Nocona unit. Aside from a chairmanship of the F.E.R.A., inaugruated during the Hoover administration, embracing the parishes of Allen, Acadia, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline, Vermillion, Jefferson Davis and Vernon, he has never held public office.
He went through all the chairs of the Masonic Blue lodges, serving one year as Worshipful master of Lake Charles Lodge No. 165 and is a charter member and was first treasurer of Calcasieu Loege No. 400 F. & A. M. He is a 32nd degree Mason and a Knight Templar.
He was secretary-treasurer of Beatty & Smith, Inc., owners of commercial property and oil royalties. He was president of the Southern Land Sales Corp., owners and developers of Edgemont and Garden Hill subdivisions.
End of obituary.
MEMORIALS TO FRANK A. SMITH:
(as posted in the American Press)
JONES WIRES REGRETS
REGRET OVER the death of Frank A. Smith was expressed today by Governor Sam H. Jones in a wire to the Lake Charles American Press.
"In the death of Frank A. Smith" he wired, "Lake Charles has lost a most valuable citizen. He was devoted to both his journalistic profession and the up-building of Lake Charles and Southwest Louisiana. Even in his last illness, he evinced a keen interest in the industrial growth and future of our community. His passing will be mourned by all who knew him."
Obituary: Frank A. Smith
Date: Monday, 27 Apr 1942
FRANK A. SMITH DIES SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT HOME, RITES TODAY
Manager of American Press Succumbs After Illness of Almost a Year; Services will be at Home At 4 o'Clock
QUIETLY, AS he slept at home, death came Sunday afternoon at 5:15 to Frank A. Smith, 58, secretary-treasurer and manager of the American Press Co, Inc, ending a period of illness covering almost a year.
After what had seemed a period of improvement in the long illness which began last June, he was stricken again about two weeks ago and had been confined to his bed since. Friday night he went into a coma from which he never aroused.
With hope almost abandoned early Sunday morning, he continued the fight for life until Sunday afternoon when death ocurred.
Surviving besides his wife, the former Miss Irene Rhodriguez, are his son, Fred T. Smith; a sister, Mrs. Lillian Cothran, Indio, California; and a grandaughter, Gayle Ellen Smith.
SERVICES TODAY
Funeral service were scheduled for this afternoon at 4 o'clock from the home with Rev. George F. Wharton, rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, and Rev. J. Henry Howdon, pastor of the First Methodist Church, officiating. Interment will be in Graceland Cemetery with Masonic rites to be conducted there. Arrangements are in charge of the Burke Funeral Home.
Active pallbearers will be Arthur L. Gayle, Cliff Liles, Alfred Roberts, R. L. Cline, A. O. King, Terrell Woosley, Allen Rhorer, and Clement M. Moss. Honorary pallbearers will be all of his friends.
Through a period of 38 years of newspaper work in Lake Charles, beginning as a printer, Mr. Smith, in the peculiar manner open to men in his profession, placed his influence behind every move for civic improvement in Lake Charles and this area.
WORKED FOR BRIDGE
In public capacity, he held but two positions during his almost a life time of service in the newspaper field here. During the old Hoover administration he served as chairman of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration for Southwest Louisiana. Some years before he died, he served as chairman of the bridge committee of the Association of Commerce. At his death, he held a membership in the local union of the International
Typographical Union.
Coming to Lake Charles in 1904 as a printer, he worked on the old Lake Charles American, then with the Lake Charles American Press when the Lake Charles American and Lake Charles Press were combined. In 1911, he was named manager of the consolidated papers, which position he held until the time of his last illness.
BEGAN ON PAPER
Frank Armstrong Smith, was born in Cleveland, Tenn., Nov. 23 1884. His parents were Leonidas Theodore Smith, one-time postmaster of Dalton, Ga., and Mary Eleanor McNabb Smith, a daughter of Dr. A. McNabb, one-time city physician at Chattanooga and a granddaughter of Ake Henry, Tennessee statesman of ante bellum times.
His newspaper career began with the selling of the Morning Times in the old Union depot at Chattanooga.
With the removal of his parents to Ardmore, Indian Territory, he attended private school of that city, later entering Hargrove college of that city.
His work on newspapers was resumed after leaving school, serving an apprenticeship on the Montague (Texas) Democrat. After working on various newspapers in Oklahoma and Texas, he came to Lake Charles as a printer, following tht trade until 1911 when he became manager of the American Press, continuing in that capacity until the time of his death.
He was married January 23, 1908, at Lake Charles, to Miss Irene Rhodriguez, to which union was born one son, Fred Taylor Smith.
HELPED RELIEF AGENCIES
Mr. Smith served several years in the Texas National Guard as a member of the Nocona unit. Aside from a chairmanship of the F.E.R.A., inaugruated during the Hoover administration, embracing the parishes of Allen, Acadia, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline, Vermillion, Jefferson Davis and Vernon, he has never held public office.
He went through all the chairs of the Masonic Blue lodges, serving one year as Worshipful master of Lake Charles Lodge No. 165 and is a charter member and was first treasurer of Calcasieu Loege No. 400 F. & A. M. He is a 32nd degree Mason and a Knight Templar.
He was secretary-treasurer of Beatty & Smith, Inc., owners of commercial property and oil royalties. He was president of the Southern Land Sales Corp., owners and developers of Edgemont and Garden Hill subdivisions.
End of obituary.
MEMORIALS TO FRANK A. SMITH:
(as posted in the American Press)
JONES WIRES REGRETS
REGRET OVER the death of Frank A. Smith was expressed today by Governor Sam H. Jones in a wire to the Lake Charles American Press.
"In the death of Frank A. Smith" he wired, "Lake Charles has lost a most valuable citizen. He was devoted to both his journalistic profession and the up-building of Lake Charles and Southwest Louisiana. Even in his last illness, he evinced a keen interest in the industrial growth and future of our community. His passing will be mourned by all who knew him."
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