Ellen T. Smith 1907 - 2000

SMITH, CASEY, OHARA

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 11/3/2014 at 21:08:23

Sioux City Journal
31 December 2000

Ellen T. Smith, 93, of Sioux City died Thursday, Dec. 28, 2000, at a Sioux City retirement home after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Services will be at a later date. Larkin Morningside Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Smith was born Aug. 15, 1907, in Sioux City, the daughter of John and Margaret (Casey) O'Hara. She attended the original Immaculate Conception School. She graduated from National Business Training College in Sioux City. She married George D. Smith on June 1, 1927, in Sioux City. He died Dec. 3, 1988, in Sioux City. She was a lifelong resident of Sioux City. For a short time she was employed as a seamstress for a professional dressmaker in Sioux City.

She was a longtime member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. She was a past president and former member of the Altar Society, a former member and past president of Catholic Women's League, and a former member of Catholic Study Club. She was a former member of the board for the Good Shephard Home and she was a longtime precinct electoral judge in Morningside for the democratic party.

Survivors include two sons and their wives, Dr. Daniel J. and Rosa Smith of Denver, and Jerome M. and Barbara Smith of Casco, Maine; a daughter and her husband, Mary Ellen and George Burns of Sherwood, Ore.; a brother, Michael O'Hara of Oklahoma City, Okla.; two sisters, Mary M. O'Hara and Ann J. Cunningham, both of Sioux City; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

She also was preceded in death by a daughter, Terry Hassenger; two brothers, Pat and John O'Hara; a sister, Rose Farley; and a grandson, Roger Burns, who was one of her primary caregivers, looking after her in her home and at the nursing home, before his unexpected death earlier this year