SMITH JR., MRS. ROBERT 1900 – 1924

SMITH, YOUNG, THORNTON, LAMB

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Date: 3/21/2011 at 22:42:26

The Clinton Herald, Saturday April 12, 1924
E. A. Young received a telegram this noon announcing that Mrs. Robert Smith, nee Celeste Lamb, had passed away suddenly this morning in Los Angeles, heart trouble the cause of her demise.
She leaves her husband and infant son, her mother, Mrs. E. A. Young, two sisters, Mrs. Valeria Lamb Thornton of New York City, and Jane Young, and brother Artemus Lamb who is a student at Yale College.
Mrs. Smith’s heart trouble had caused her husband to take her to New Orleans, thence to California, hoping that a change of altitude would be beneficial. Mrs. Young and daughter Jane are on their way to the coast but will probably be intercepted en route.
The Clinton Herald, Wednesday April 16, 1924
Robert Smith arrived today, coming from Los Angeles, Calif., and bringing home the body of his wife who passed away last Saturday morning. Funeral arrangements will be announced tomorrow. Mrs. C. E. Dixon of Springfield, Ill. arrived today also and will be with Mrs. Garrett E. Lamb.
Last Sunday’s Los Angeles Times carries the following announcement:
SMITH. April 12, at 157 South Berendo, Mrs. Celeste Lamb Smith, aged 23 years.
Remains at the parlors of Strother & Dayton. Interment, Clinton, Iowa.
The Clinton Herald, Friday April 18, 1924
Funeral services for the late Mrs. Robert S. Smith Jr., nee Miss Celeste Lamb, were held at 10:30 o’clock this morning at Woodlands, the home Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Young, with the Rev. Dr. W. R. Agate, rector of St. John’s Episcopal church officiating. Interment was in Springdale cemetery, where Mrs. Smith was laid beside her father, the late J. D. Lamb, who passed away 19 years ago.
The deceased, daughter of Mrs. E. A. Young, was born in Clinton, August 2, 1900, and passed her childhood here. She graduated from the Marlborough School in Los Angeles in 1918 and thereafter attended the Finch school in New York. Her marriage to Robert S. Smith Jr., son of R. S. Smith of Clinton, formerly of Hammond, Ind., took place January 4, 1921, and for the first year Mr. and Mrs. Smith resided in Clinton. Later they moved to Hammond, Ind., but a few weeks ago, Mr. Smith took Mrs. Smith to Florida, thence to California for the benefit of her health. Just as she appeared to be recovering, her death occurred unexpectedly as the result of heart trouble, April 12, in Los Angeles.
Left to mourn her death are her bereaved husband, her infant son, her mother, two sisters, Mrs. Valeria Lamb Thornton of Hackensack, N. J. and Miss Jane Young of Clinton and a brother, Artemus Lamb, a student in Yale College. The body arrived in Clinton Wednesday noon, accompanied by Mr. Smith, and was taken to the E. A. Young home, where this morning’s services were held, following the Episcopal ritual and including a poem read by the Rev. Mr. Stockley.
Private interment services were held at the grave, with a prayer by the Rev. Dr. Stockley and the reading of a poem, Browning’s “He Giveth His Beloved Sleep,” by the Rev. M. Stockley.
Pallbearers were Ernest Christy, Dr. Clifford Grant, and George Hutchins of Clinton, Fred Beckman, Julius Meyn and Leo P. Knoerzer, Hammond friends of Mr. Smith.
Here from out of the city to attend the funeral in addition to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Thornton of Hackensack, N. J., the latter a sister, and Artemus Lamb, home from Yale College, brother of the deceased, there were Mr. and Mrs. Julius Meyn, Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Betz, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Stewart, Mrs. James Linn, Percy Smith, brother of the bereaved husband, Mrs. Maynard Smith sister-in-law of Mr. Smith and Orville Davies, all of Hammond, Ind., Mrs. C. E. Dixon of Springfield, Ill., and Mrs. John Johnston of Oak Park, Ill.