Charles Lathrop Smith (1907-1951)

SMITH, LEBARD, BADGER, DICKINSON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:12

From Nevada Evening Journal July 5, 1951 (page 4)*

Last Rites For Elder Chas. L. Smith AT S.D.A. Church

Elder Charles Lathrop Smith was born on Aug. 31, 1907, at Ridgeland, Wis., and passed away on June 24, 1951, at Nevada, Iowa, of a heart attack at the age of 43. He began serving the Seventh-day Adventist denomination at the age of 18 as a church school teacher and continued his work in various capacities until his retirement almost a year ago due to ill health, after 22 years of work. He served in Iowa as youth and educational secretary of Seventh-day Adventists from 1941 to 1944. From 1944 to 1947 he was principal of Maplewood Academy, Hutchinson, Minn. From there he went to Oshawa Missionary college, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, heading that college until ill health forced him 11 months ago to give up active service. During the few months he lived in Nevada before his death he taught a 45-member Basic First-aid course of the Red Cross organized for Nevada Seventh-day Adventists. It was his ardent desire to go on with teaching of the Red Cross advanced course but his strength was not sufficient. His desire to prepare himself and others to serve his country in the event of emergency is an inspiring memory to the living.

Surviving him are his wife Ann Smith; one son, Bryce Robert six years of age; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harris Smith of Clear Lake, Wis.; and four sisters: Miss Helen Mae Smith one of the teachers at the Seventh-day Adventist parochial school in Nevada; Mrs. Charles L. LeBard, Stillwater, Minn.; Mrs. George M. Badger of Port Byron, Ill., and Mrs. James Dickinson of Nevada.

*SUBMITTER'S NOTE: This is the abridged version. There is much description of the funeral service.