SMITH, Mary ca.1908-2001

SMITH, MEYER, FINER, BROWN, MEYST, VAN ELLEN, SMITH, MEINDERS

Posted By: Jeffrey R. Phillips (email)
Date: 2/12/2004 at 22:11:00

Mary Smith
By: 08/15/2001

Dec. 31, 1907-Aug. 12, 2001

PARKERSBURG-Mary Smith, 93, of Parkersburg, died Sunday, Aug. 12, 2001, at her daughter's home in Clear Lake. Services will be held Wednesday, Aug. 15, at 1 p.m., at the Schwartz Funeral Chapel in Aplington, with burial in Maynes Grove Cemetery, rural Bradford. Robert Orr will officiate.

Mary was born Dec. 31, 1907, in Franklin County, to George and Ella Meyer Meyer. She was educated in Franklin County. She was married to Henry Van Ellen and Henry Meinders, who both preceded her in death. Mary later married James Smith. She spent most of her life on the family farm raising her children.

She is survived by her husband, James Smith of Parkersburg; three daughters, Harriet Finer and husband, Eldon, of Clear Lake, Jean Brown and husband, Robert , of Forest Ontario, Canada, and Judy Meyst and husband, Charles, of Southfield, Mich.; two sons, Lloyd Van Ellen of Waverly, and Robert Meinders and wife, Nancy, of Aplington; two stepchildren, Elmer Smith and wife, Anna, of Tampa, Fla., and Kenneth Smith and wife, Donnis, of Cedar Falls; 12 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; three sisters, Minnie Meyer of St. Paul, Minn., Lena Swieter of Iowa Falls, and Pearl Neilsen and husband, Thomas, of Royal Oak, Mich.; two brothers, Harm Meyer and wife, Maxine, and A.J. Meyer and wife, Helen, all of Iowa Falls. She was preceded in death by her parents; two husbands, Henry Van Ellen and Henry Meinders; an infant son; two sisters, four brothers; an infant brother; and an infant great-granddaughter.

Memorials may be directed to Hospice of North Iowa, Mason City.

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