Asa Smith (1958)

COUNTRYMAN, DOLAN, MCCLURE, MCCORMICK, MOORE, PRICE, SMITH, TANNER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 2/26/2011 at 08:23:34

Dexter Library Obituary Collection
Dexter, Iowa

Funeral Services Held Monday for Asa Smith

Passed Away Dec. 20 After Long Period of Failing Health

Asa Smith, a member of the Dexter-Earlham community for eighty-one years, passed away about three o’clock on Saturday morning, December 20, at the hospital in Perry. Mr. Smith had been in failing health for the past ten months but death came after complications resulting from a broken hip which he suffered just one week ago at the Garwood Nursing home where he was a patient. Mr. Smith and his devoted wife reached the fifty-fifth anniversary of their marriage on Dec. 16, of last week.

Rev. Robert Williams officiated at the funeral services where were held at one-thirty Monday afternoon, Dec. 22 at the Dexter Methodist church. The organist was Mrs. K. M. Chapler and Robert Lawson was soloist, singing “The City Four-Square.”

Caring for the lovely flowers were Ruth Leeper, Della Gowdey and Vivian Lawson.

The casket bearers were grandsons Keith Smith, Gene Smith, Richard Smith, Homer Smith Jr., Carl Fox and nephew Edwin Smith. Honorary casket bearers were Sherman Moore, Mickey Moore, Laurence Dolan, Joseph Dolan, Dale Fox and Raymond Gordon.

The interment was held in the Penn Center cemetery near Earlham. The Roy E. Evans funeral home conducted the services.

OBITUARY

Asa Smith, the son of Milton and Elizabeth Tanner Smith, was born near Earlham, September 12, 1877, and departed this life, December 20, 1958, at the age of 81 years, 3 months, and 8 days. He had been in failing health for several months; he fell a week ago breaking a hip and complications developed.

He was married to Rosa McClure of Winterset. They had been married 55 years this past week. To this union were born eight children of whom seven survive.

Mr. Smith lived most of his life in the Earlham and Penn Center communities with the exception of three years at Lorimor. In 1934, he had the misfortune of losing his complete eyesight and the family moved to Dexter. He was a kind and loving husband and father, never complaining. He enjoyed the company, especially that of his children and grandchildren.

He was a member of the Penn Center Methodist Church, later being transferred to Earlham and then to Dexter.

He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Fred, Clarence and Chester Smith of Earlham; and one daughter, Lucille, who died in infancy.

He leaves to mourn his passing his wife, Rosa; three sons, Raymond and Homer of Des Moines, and Lyle, of Council Bluffs; four daughters, Gladys Countryman of Council Bluffs, Myrtle McCormick of El Paso, Texas, Wilma Moore of Dexter, and Ila Dolan of Minburn. Also, there are one granddaughter and 19 grandsons, six great granddaughters, two brothers, Will Smith and Ray Smith of Earlham, and one sister, Pearl Price of Earlham, besides a host of other relatives and friends.

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