ELIZA FOX SMITH

FOX, SMITH, LARSON, RICKETTS, HANLEY, KIMSEY, TAYLOR, WHITE, MCCLEVY

Posted By: Nancee Seifert (email)
Date: 3/31/2008 at 14:39:11

Funeral Services for Mrs. E. Smith Here on Saturday

Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza Smith, who had passed away the previous
day in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Raymond Larson, were held from the
Farber and Otteman Funeral home at 10:00 A.M. on Saturday.

Rev. Roy Cox, pastor of the First Methodist Church in Sac City was in
charge. Music was furnished by Mrs. P. A. Lauterbach and Mrs. Wayne
Irwin with Ray Holtz at the piano. The body was sent to Moorcroft (sic),
Wyoming where burial was made.

The following obituary was read at the service.

Eliza Fox daughter of John and Sadah (sic-Sarah Ricketts) Fox was born
at Chariton, Iowa, October 18, 1865 and passed away at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Raymond Larson in Sac City Iowa on May 16th, 1947. She
departed this life peacefully during her sleep to be awakened only on
that distant shore by the call of the Master.

On May 6, 1886 she was married to Josiah Smith. To this union nine
children were born. Her husband and two of the children, Mrs. Perry
Hanley and Harry Wm. Smith preceded her in death. She joined the Baptist
Church when she was quite young, but has attended the Methodist Church
in this community with her daughter and family and was a meManitobaer of
the “Win-One” Sunday School of the Methodist Church. For several years
she has made her home with Mrs. Raymond Larson of Sac City.

She is survived by her seven children, Elmer Smith of Hawthorne,
California; Mrs. Bertha Kimsey, Mrs. Ethel Taylor, and Byron Smith of
Moorcroft, Wyoming; Mrs. Gusta Larson of Sac City; Jack Smith of
Portland, Oregon; and Mrs. Twla (sic) White of Spokane, Washington. Also
two sisters, Miss Orpha Fox and Mrs. May McClevy (sic) of Des Moines,
Iowa, and one brother, Barney Fox of Bushyhead, Oklahoma, besides 21
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

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