Rose Smith

SMITH, HENDERSON, VANDERLOO, FULTON, HOBBS, BETZER, HINES

Posted By: Brenda Miller (email)
Date: 12/31/2008 at 15:09:33

Rose L. Smith
Funeral Services for Rose L. Smith, 86, of Bronson were held on Saturday June 27, 1992 at 10:30a.m. at the Elliott Creek Presbyterian Church in Bronson. Rev. Russ Couwenhoven officiated. Interment was in Graceland Park Cemetery in Sioux City under the direction of the Nelson-Berger Morningside Chapel in Sioux City.

Mrs. Smith, the former Rose Lorine [sic] Vanderloo, was born March 4, 1906 in Avoca, Iowa, the daughter of Jacob J. and Lulu (Hines) Vanderloo. She graduated from Lawton High School in 1924 and studied nursing at St. Vincent's Hospital in Sioux City. She married Chester B. Smith in 1937 in Ida Grove, Iowa. The couple moved to Bronson from Hornick in 1943. He died in November 1963. She was employed at Swift Poultry Plan in Sioux City. She was a member of the Bronson Birthday Club.
Mrs. Smith died Wednesday, June 24, 1992, in a Sioux City Hospital of brief illness. Survivors include three daughters, Mary Jayne Fulton of Lubbock, Texas; Mrs. Jack (Shirley) Hobbs of Moville and Neta Smith of Bronson; a brother George Vanderloo of Omaha; as sister Cecile Betzer of Ralston, Nebraska; 11 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. She was also preceded in death by a brother, Clarence Vanderloo and a grandson, Terry Fulton.
[The Moville Record, Thursday, 2 July 1992, page 1 - submitted by Brenda Miller]