Leo Chester Smith (2004)

BEARD, CURRY, HACKER, KOHLER, LIPSCHULTZ, LOONEY, REED, SMITH, STEAR, TRAVIS

Posted By: Eileen Reed
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:04:36

The Peoria Journal Star
Peoria, Illinois
Sunday, September 19, 2004
Page B6

Leo C. Smith, 93, of 1416 Norwood Blvd. died Friday, Sept. 17, 2004, at Bel-Wood Nursing Home.

Born July 27, 1911, in Mackinaw to P.F. and Adelia Looney Smith, he married Doris Travis in 1939 in Peoria. She preceded him in death. He later married Ethel Curry on Nov. 12, 1960, in Chicago. She also preceded him in death.

He also was preceded in death by one daughter, one sister and two brothers.

Surviving are three daughters, Diane (and Raymond) Lipschultz of Menomonie, Wis., Sandra (and Parker) Hacker of Peoria Heights and Alice Stear of Everett, Wash.; one son, Charles Curry of Hobart, Wash.; two brothers, Marvin (and Peaches) Beard of Colorado and Eldon (and Florence) Beard of Minnesota; and two sisters, Myrtle Reed and Gladys Beard, both of Iowa.

He owned and operated Leo Smith Trucking for 57 years until retiring.

He was a member of Scottish Rite Bodies, Valley of Peoria; the Mohammed Temple Shrine; and Temple Masonic Lodge 46, AF&AM. He also was a member of International Order of Oddfellows.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Endsley Funeral Home in Bartonville, where visitation will be one hour before. Masonic rites will be accorded by his Masonic lodge at the funeral home. Burial will be in Parkview Cemetery in Peoria.

Memorials may be made to Shriners Hospitals for Children.
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Coordinator's note: Transcribed as published, per a family member, this obituary has the following errors - the marriage to Doris Travis took place in 1940 in Iowa City, Iowa and sister Gladys Beard should be "Gladys (Beard) Kohler". Per census records and his father's obituary, the deceased lived in Madison County from 1915 to 1919, returned to Illinois, but then came back to Madison County and was in the 1925 and 1930 censuses. By 1940, he was back in Illinois.

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