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SMITH, Jerry Dwayne

SMITH, PELLMAN, JACOBS, BAILEY, JOHNSON, KOOPMAN, STEPHENS, ADKISSON, WEATHERS, FLUREY, COULTHARD

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 2/28/2017 at 06:39:00

Obituary ~ Jerry Dwayne Smith
April 20, 1950 - January 05, 2017

Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa
February 12, 2017

Decatur County crash leaves one dead

A man died Saturday after crashing through a guard rail over a creek in Decatur County, the Iowa State Patrol said.

Jerry Dwayne Smith, 56, of Lamoni, was killed after crashing at about 3:30 p.m. on a gravel road at North Smith Street and 150th Street, about a mile north of Lamoni, according to a trooper's crash report. Smith was driving northbound on Smith Street when his truck rolled through a wooden guard rail on a bridge over a creek. The truck landed its top, killing the driver, troopers say.

Smith was transported by a Lamoni ambulance to Slade Funeral Home, the report says.

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Jerry Dwayne Smith, age 56, of Lamoni, Iowa, the son of Billy Junior and Margaret Louise (Pellman) Smith, was born on September 27, 1960, at Mount Ayr, Iowa. He went to be with his Lord and Savior following an accident near his Lamoni home on Saturday, February 11, 2017.

Jerry attended kindergarten through the second grade at Martensdale St. Mary’s School then Winterset, graduating in 1980. Jerry married Bonnetta Jacobs. One son, Andrew Eugene, was born to this union on December 9, 1982.

Jerry worked at Miracle in Mount Ayr, Iowa, Astoria in Chariton, Iowa, and was currently employed by PerMar at Osceola Foods/Hormel in Osceola, Iowa as a security guard.

In his free time, he enjoyed being with his family, working with his horses, and hunting, fishing, and trapping. He was a member of the Fellowship of Christians and Jews and POAC, Ponies of America Club.

Preceding him in death were his grandparents, Charles James Pellman, Mary Gladys Bailey Pellman Johnson and husband, Gerald Johnson, and Willie and Wilma Jane Smith; and aunts and uncles, Ronald and Lois Smith, Philip Pellman, Norma and Roger Koopman, Janet Stephens, and Deborah Adkisson.

Survivors include his son, Andrew Smith and fiancé, Sheila Weathers of Lamoni; parents, Billie and Margaret Smith of Lamoni; brothers, Terry Lee Smith and wife, Tammy, of Lake View, Iowa, Garry Neal Smith of Lamoni, and Larry Gene Smith and wife, Patti, of Eagleville, Missouri; sister, Melissa Smith of Lamoni; nieces and nephews, Kara & Max Flurey, Katey Smith, Emma & Raphael Coulthard, Ethan & Mariah Smith, Eli & Megan Smith, William Smith, and Wyatt Smith; great nieces and nephews, Wesley, Abby, Declyn, Gwenn, Ean, Payton, and Winnie; and other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be held at Trinity Christian Church at 10 a.m. Wednesday, February 15, 2017, with Rev. Terry D. Roberts officiating. Burial will be in the Trinity Hills Cemetery, Decatur, Iowa.

SOURCE: sladefuneralhome.com/obituaries/Jerry-Dwayne-Smith?obId=1365891#/celebrationWall

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, February of 2017


 

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