Smithart, Milas 1916-1989

SMITHART, RUBLE, PETERS, GILROY, HECK, PURVIS, TIBBEADU, COOK, MATTSEN, SEARCY

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Date: 2/15/2006 at 09:18:11

Milas Smithart

Milas “Bud” Smithart, Sr., 72, of 111 Country Club Acres, a resident of Newton since 1980, died Tuesday, Aug. 22, at Skiff Medical Center.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Wallace-Pence Funeral Home.

The Rev. A. B. Sudbrock, pastor of the Newton Baptist Temple Church, will conduct services. Burial will be at Palo Alto Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after noon today. Visitation with the family will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Survivors are his wife, Violet; six sons, Dale Smithart, Milas Smithart, Jr. and Richard Smithart, all of Newton, James Ramer of Denver, Iowa, and Harley Wilson and Cleo Smithart, both of Des Moines; two daughters, Linda (Mrs. David) Gilroy of Kellogg and Margaret (Mrs. Roy) Heck of Newton; and 21 grandchildren.

Also surviving are four sisters, Ethel Purvis of Huxley, Mable Tibbeadu, of Tucson, Ariz., Gladys Cook of Casa Grande, Ariz., and Peggy Mattsen of Lower Lake, Calif.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Margaret Searcy.

Mr. Smithart, a truck driver for United Ringsley of Colorado until retiring in 1973, attended the Newton Baptist Temple Church and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Local 147, Retirees Union.

Mr. Smithart, a Navy veteran of World War II, was the son of Sherm and Tillie Ruble Smithart. He was born Oct. 4, 1916 at Cambridge.

He was married to Violet May Peters May 9, 1953 at Avon Lake.

Mr. Smithart, who was raised in Cambridge, moved to Des Moines following his marriage and later moved to Arizona.

~ Newton Daily News, Newton, Iowa, August 23, 1989