CHARLES C SCHMIDT/SMITH 1892--1962

SCHMIDT, SMITH, BEACOM, KUNKLE, ROSENBURG, PETERS

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Date: 12/31/2005 at 08:51:25

10.25.1962 BELLEVUE HERALD LEADER

CHARLES C SMITH, 70, RETIRED SABULA TEACHER AND NATIVE OF BELLEVUE WHO HAD BEEN LIVING IN CLAYTON, DIED MONDAY, OCT 15, AT MCGREGOR HOSPITAL AFTER A BRIEF ILLNESS.

PRAYER SERVICES WERE HELD TUESDAY EVENING AT THE TUECKE FUNERAL HOME IN GARNAVILLO, LED BY REV SORENSON OF THE EV LUTHERAN CHURCH. THE BODY WAS TAKEN WEDNESDAY TO THE ALLEN FUNERAL CHAPEL IN SABULA WHERE SERVICES WERE HELD THURSDAY AFTERNOON BY REV VIRGIL TAYLOR. BURIAL WAS IN THE FAMILY PLOT AT REESEVILLE CEMETERY.

MR. SMITH WAS BORN IN BELLEVUE JUNE 22, 1892, SON OF CHRIS H AND MARY KUNKLE SMITH. HE GRADUATED FROM BELLEVUE HIGH SCHOOL AND ATTENDED IOWA STATE TEACHER COLLEGE, IOWA STATE COLLEGE, TRINITY COLLEGE AND LASALLE UNIVERSITY.

HE SERVED IN IOWA SCHOOLS AS SUPERINTENDENT, PRINCIPAL AND TEACHER. THE LAST 12 YEARS BEFORE RETIRING HE TAUGHT ENGLISH AND LATIN AT SABULA. AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH HE WAS WRITING A BOOK OF POEMS.

HE MARRIED GENEVIEVE BEACOM AT CLAYTON JUNE 10, 1922. HE WAS A CONFIRMED MEMBER OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH AT BELLEVUE.

HE IS PRECEDED BY HIS WIFE, AND AN ONLY BROTHER. SURVIVING ARE 2 AUNTS, MRS ELIZABETH ROSENBURG OF MAQUOKETA AND MRS WALTER PETERS OF SABULA, AN UNCLE, ED SMITH OF SABULA.