Vera E. (Verwers) Smith (2001)
CARPENTER, NEAL, RIEDESEL, SMITH, TURNER, VERWERS
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 12/23/2006 at 13:55:32
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, February 21, 2001VERA E. SMITH, Winterset
Vera Evelyn Smith, 85, of Winterset died of a heart ailment Feb. 16, 2001, at Metropolitan Medical Center in Des Moines.
Funeral services were held Sunday, Feb. 18, at the First Church of God in Lorimor with the Rev. Ben R. Turner officiating. Burial was at the Lorimor Cemetery.
Vera Smith was born Aug. 26, 1915, in Madison County to John and Bertha (Carpenter) Verwers. A graduate of Lorimor High School, she married Dale E. Smith on April 2, 1938, in Winterset. A homemaker, Vera also assisted her husband on the farm. She had been a member of the Lorimor Study Club, the First Church of God in Lorimor, and the Ladies' Missionary Society, of which she had been secretary and treasurer. She had resided in Winterset since 1986.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband and a sister.
She is survived by three daughters, Elaine Riedesel (husband George) of Afton, Diann Turner (husband Ben) of Lorimor and Sue Ann Neal (husband Terry) of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Funeral arrangements were handled by Collins Oak Park Chapel in Winterset.
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