SMITH, Mae Cecelia 1902 - 1965

SMITH, HALVERSON, STEVENS, OUVERSON, HAMBLIN, SCHWARTZ, RODBERG

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 8/27/2015 at 11:53:34

MRS. SMITH FUNERAL TO BE SATURDAY

CLEAR LAKE – Funeral services have been set for Mrs. S. A. Smith, 63, Route 2, who died at a Mason City hospital Thursday morning after an illness of one year.

Services will be Saturday at 3 p.m. in the Evangelical Free Church with Pastor Harold McGowan officiating. Burial will be in Clear Lake Cemetery. The Ward Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mae Cecelia Smith was born Jan. 21, 1902, near fertile, the daughter of Halvor and Lena (Halverson) Stevens. She is a graduate of Fertile High School of 1921 and attended State College of Iowa, Cedar Falls. She taught country schools several years.

Nov. 20, 1928, she was married to Senor Smith at Mason City. They made their home there until 1952, when they moved to their present farm south of Clear Lake. She was a clerk in the county superintendent’s office from 1950 to 1962.

She is survived by her husband, two brothers, Ole Stevens, Clear Lake, and Mervyn Stevens, Hanlontown, and two sisters, Mrs. Oscar (Hazel) Ouverson, Rushville, Ill., and Mrs. Glenn (Charlotte) Hamblin, Ventura.

She was preceded in death by her parents and two sisters, Mrs. Sam Schwartz, in May and Mrs. Nellie Rodberg, Mason City, in June.

Pallbearers will be Stanley Brue, T.E. Nelson Jr., Duane Hollenbeck, W.H. Schlichting, William Hamblin and Klaas Leemhuis. Organist will be Mrs. Brue; vocalists, Mrs. Denzil Hoskins, Mrs. Donald Neuberg, and Mrs. McGowan. Mrs. Richard Hill and Mrs. Harold Radloff are in charge of flowers.

Transcriber’s Note – Mae Cecelia Smith was born January 21, 1902, died September 1965 and was buried in the Clear Lake Cemetery, Section D Row 8.