Smiths, Cora Evelyn 1914-1994

SMITS, SCHWARTZ, MUIR, DEN HARTOG, VAN ZEE, PLATE, BROWN, LOURENS, MC CORMICK, HUGEN

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Date: 11/19/2007 at 12:52:19

Cora Evelyn Smits

Cora Evelyn Plate Smits, 80, of Newton, a former longtime resident of the Prairie City area, died Monday, July 18, at the Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Prairie City First Reformed Church.

The Rev. Joel Brummel, pastor of the church, assisted by the Rev. Bill Adams, associate pastor of the Community Heights Alliance Church in Newton, will conduct services. Burial will be in Waveland Cemetery in Prairie City.

Friends may call Wednesday at the Walters-Coburn Funeral Home in Prairie City and visitation with the family will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Memorials to the Prairie City First Reformed Church will be accepted.

Survivors are her husband, John; three daughters and sons-in-law, Dorothy and Mark Schwartz of Aurora, Ill., Betty and Steve Muir and Ruth and Dennis Den Hartog, all of Newton; a son and daughter-in-law, Dr. Robert and Pam of Clive; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Also surviving are a siter, Thelma (Mrs. Harry) Van Zee of Newton; two brothers, Henry Plate of Apple Valley, Calif., and Harold Plate of Iowa City and Sarah Lourens of Mitchellville.

She was preceded in death by her parents, step-mother, Mamie Plate, a sister, Cora Margaret, a son, Ronald Lee, a brother, Bert Plate, and two others brothers, Frederick Mc Cormick and Raymond Mc Cormick.

She was a member of the Prairie City First reformed Church, the 50-50 Group of the Community Heights Alliance Church, Mother's Club of Prairie City and Ladies guild of the Prairie City first Reformed Church.

The daughter of Herman and Tena Hugen Plate, she was born Feb. 6, 1914 in Mahaska County.

She was married to John Smits Feb. 25, 1937 at Prairie City.

Mrs. Smits had resided in the Prairie City area most of the life, moving to Park Centre in 1992. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, July 1994