Smith, Harold S. 1921-1996

SMITH, DUNCAN, ELLINGSON, BAILEY, WEBERG, DALE, MCGEE, MCCARTER

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Date: 3/28/2012 at 01:37:48

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register; July 1996

HAROLD SMITH

Harold S. Smith, 74, of Grinnell, formerly of Brooklyn, died of complications from surgery Monday, July 8, at Grinnell Regional Medical Center.

Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Smith Funeral Home, with the Rev. Evelyn Larson, associate pastor of the First Friends Church, officiating. Pallbearers will be John Andes, Lonnie Duncan, Dick Gosselink, Art Kuntz, Keith Rose and Chuck Sumner. Honorary bearers will be Ed Brand, Tilford Christenson, Bob King, Jim McCarter and Franics Purvis. Burial will be in Hazelwood Cemetery.

The family will be present at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday.

The son of Charles C. and Frona Duncan Smith, he was born Oct. 22, 1921, near Lynnville. The family lived in Kentucky for seven years and moved to Grinnell in 1928. He attended rural Grinnell schools. During World War II, he served with the U.S. Army in the southwest Pacific.

He was married to Erma Jean Duncan Jan. 2, 1946, in Montezuma. They farmed near Ladora and Melbourne until 1950 when they moved to Grinnell. Mr. Smith worked for the Maytag Co. and later as a vendor for Grinnell Industrial Beveage Co. In 1971 he moved to Denver, Colo., and worked for the Martin-Marietta Co. until his retirement in 1985. He then lived at Holiday Lake near Brooklyn before moving to Grinnell in July 1994.

He attended the First Friends Church and was a member of the I.O.O.F. Lodge here. He was also a member of Aerospace Workers Local 766.

Surviving are his wife; two sons, Roger of Grinnell and Randy of Phoenix, Ariz.; three daughters, Pam Ellingson of Grinnell, Connie Bailey of Fort Worth, Texas, and Jackie Weberg of Gresham, Ore.; 11 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; one brother, Lyle of Fort Collins, Colo.; and two sisters, Deloris Dale of Loveland, Colo., and Lorene Smith of Salt Lake City, Utah.

He was preceded in death by his parents and three sisters, Neva Smith, Eula McGee and Marie McCarter.