Susan Anna Quigley McClure Smith 1921- 2014

MCCLURE, SMITH, DURR, QUIGLEY

Posted By: Connie J Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 12/28/2014 at 19:08:59

Sioux City Journal
9 December 2014

TURIN, Iowa | Susan McClure Smith, 93, of Turin died Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, at Bethany Heights, an independent and assisted living community, in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Memorial services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at Rush Family Care Service, 1629 10th Street, in Onawa, Iowa. The Rev. Donald R. Ludwick will officiate. Burial will be in Belvidere Cemetery, rural Turin. There will be no visitation.

Susan Anna Quigley was born on May 14, 1921, on a family farm south of Turin in Monona County, Iowa. She was the daughter of George and Nettie (Durr) Quigley. Susan was a 1939 graduate of Castana (Iowa) High School and spent most of her life in Turin before moving to Onawa and later Council Bluffs.

In September 1939, she married James Kenneth McClure, who passed away in November 1977. Nine years later in November 1986, she married William Kenneth Smith, who died in October 2005. Susan cared for both of them during lengthy illnesses.

Susan worked for many years at Clarence Burke's grocery store in Turin. She was a telephone operator for the Turin Independent Telephone Company, a clerk at Ford's Apparel in Onawa and a senior aide at West Central Development before retirement.

For 45 years, Susan served as Turin's town treasurer. She was also the Turin correspondent for the local Onawa newspapers for many years.

A member of the American Legion Auxiliary and the Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary, she devoted half a century to decorating the graves of veterans buried at Belvidere Cemetery with flags, poppies and crosses on Memorial Day. She also created a plat map that identified grave locations that were hard to find when burial markers were obscured or weathered stones illegible.

She was a Past Worthy Matron of Queen Esther Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star and an active member of the Turin United Methodist Church, where she served as Sunday School superintendent, teacher and member of the United Methodist Women's group. She later joined the Onawa Christian Church.

Susan loved cooking, embroidery, crocheting, camping, reading and music. No family or community dinner was complete without her requested homemade rolls.

Survivors include her daughter, Jane McClure of Council Bluffs; her son, Kenneth (Yoom) McClure of Council Bluffs; two stepsons, Tom (Carol) Smith of Jacksonville, Fla., and Kenneth (Cheryl) Smith of Whiting, Iowa; grandchildren, Matthew McClure, Mark (Julie) McClure, and Michelle (Jason) Mass; step-grandchildren, Mike (Amy) Smith, Patrick (Brandy) Smith, Ryan (fiancee, Erin Wilson) Smith; great-grandchildren, Alec Mass, Taylor Mass, Ethan McClure, Kaitlin McClure and Joshua McClure; great-step-grandchildren, Austin Smith, Maiya Smith, Madeline Smith and Liam Smith; and many beloved nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two husbands, Kenneth McClure and Bill Smith; sister, Ethel Jane Nelson; and step-grandson, Grant Smith.

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