BRYAN SEWELL SMITH

SMITH, FOX, YOUNG, IRWIN, TAYLOR, WHITE

Posted By: Nancee Seifert (email)
Date: 4/17/2008 at 18:38:35

Bryan Sewell Smith
Moorcroft—A graveside service and burial for Bryan Sewell Smith, 87,
will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Moorcroft Cemetery with the Rev.
Ren Adams officiating.
Smith, a former longtime Moorcroft area resident, died Friday, May 25,
at the Wyoming State Sanitarium in Basin.

He was born Aug. 7, 1896, in Chariton, Iowa to Josiah and Eliza (Fox)
Smith. After his education he moved to Red Oak, Iowa where he worked for
Adams Express Co. and later for the Keller & Keller Livestock Exchange
Agency. He lived in Sioux City, Iowa for one year prior to enlisting
with U.S. Army in 1918.

After his honorable discharge he married Vivian Young on September 4,
1922, at Osceola, Iowa. He and his family moved to Wyoming in 1929, and
settled on a ranch 15 miles east of Moorcroft. They lived there until
1937 when they moved into town for their children to attend school.

Smith worked in the construction business, and later in the oil
exploration industry. At the age of 65, he retired from True Oil Co.

He and his wife lived in Moorcroft until the mid-1970’s when they moved
to the Wyoming Soldiers and Sailors Home in Buffalo. They have lived at
the Wyoming Sanitarium at Basin for the last three years.

Survivors include his wife Vivian of Basin; two sons, Jack of Rawlins
and Bill of Vashon, Wash.; one daughter JoAn (sic) Irwin of Seattle,
Wash.; two sisters, Ethel Taylor of Sheridan and Twyla White of Spokane,
Wash.; 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. He was preceded in
death by his parents, three brothers and three sisters.

Persons wishing to pay respects may do so from 3 to 7 p.m. Monday or
from 8 a.m. to noon Tuesday at the Noecker Funeral Home which is in
charge of arrangements.

The News-Record, Gillette, Wyoming, May 27, 1984

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