Harold A. Smith 1919-1961

SMITH, BADER, LENZ, HEVELY, DOHERTY

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 4/15/2020 at 05:55:42

6 April 1961 - The Anamosa Eureka

Harold A. Smith, 42, 506 E. Second street, Anamosa, was killed at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 6, while replacing a transformer fuse five miles southeast of Ryan.

Smith was a lineman for the Maquoketa Valley Rural Electric cooperative. He was apparently electrocuted; according to a statement by George Hall, office manager for the local MVREC.

Body will be at the Goettsch Funeral home, Anamosa. Services are scheduled at the Methodist church in Hopkinton. Burial will be in the Hopkinton cemetery.

Funeral schedule still was pending as The Eureka went to press.

Pallbearers, all lineman with the MVREC, are Junior Hinz, John Peterson, Alvin Covington, Bill Finn and Tom Rieter all of Anamosa, and Bernard Crowley of Cascade.

Harold A. Smith was born in Hopkinton, Iowa, Dec. 20, 1919. He married the former Edna Bader in 1946 and moved to Anamosa in 1947. He began working for the MVREC that year and had been a lineman with them until his death.

Smith had been a member of the American Legion and was active with the Little League.

Survivors beside his wife Edna, are four children, Ronald 14, Kenneth 11, Maxine 9 and Debra 5. He is also survived by five brothers: Frank, Paul and Donald, Hopkinton; Clarence, Coggon; and Frederick, Escandido, Calif.; four sisters: Delores, Hopkinton; Betty Lenz, Pittsburg, Pa.; Frances Hevely, St. Petersburg, Fla.; and Marilyn Doherty, Los Angeles; and his mother Mrs. Frances Smith, Hopkinton.

He was preceded in death by his father Burt in 1949 and a daughter, Marcia, in 1958.