SMITH, Elsie W. 1912 - 1999

SMITH, DAVIS, CONGER, RUPP, HISEL, WILLIS, MILLER

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 2/6/2012 at 12:45:45

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Thursday, October 21, 1999

Elsie W. SMITH

Elsie W. SMITH, 87, of 807 W. Taylor Ave., died at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19, 1999, at Nelson Nursing Home.

The funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Lockridge Baptist Church with the Rev. Ed Newman officiating. Burial will be in Lockridge Cemetery. Open visitation will be until 8 p.m. today at Behner Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Lockridge Baptist Church.

Mrs. SMITH was born May 14, 1912, in Lockridge Township, the daughter of Lee and Della DAVIS CONGER. She married Carl RUPP, and they were later separated. She then married Ralph O. SMITH Oct. 30, 1961, in Kahoka, Mo.

She graduated from Lockridge High School. She lived in the Lockridge and Fairfield area all her life. She was a member of Lockridge Baptist Church.

Survivors include her husband of Lockridge; one son, Carl RUPP Jr. of Hot Springs, Ark.; three stepchildren, Paul SMITH of Tupelo, Miss., Delores HISEL of Cloquet, Minn., and Joann WILLIS of Libertyville; four grandchildren; eight stepgrandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and 12 stepgreat-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and one sister, Gladys MILLER.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I am not related to the person(s) mentioned.

Note: Ralph died in 2002 and is also buried in Lockridge Cemetery. Elsie was his third wife.