Louie Smidt, Jr.

SMIDT, HEERKES, COOPER, JOHNSON, BUNNELL, WIRTJES

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/15/2008 at 17:45:18

August 17, 1999
Mason City Globe Gazette, IA

BRITT - Louie Smidt Jr., 90, passed away Saturday (Aug. 14, 1999) at his home in Britt. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Ewing Funeral Chapel, Britt, with the Rev. Doug Farrel and the Rev. Steve Mulder officiating. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery, Britt. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral chapel.

Louie, the son of Ludwig and Lena Heerkes Smit, was born April 16, 1909, at their farm home. On Dec. 28, 1933, he was united in marriage to Hattie Cooper at the Kanawha Christian Reformed parsonage. The couple made their home with Hattie's parents until 1938 at which time they moved to a farm southwest of Britt where they farmed until 1974. They then moved to a home in Britt. Louie and Hattie enjoyed traveling. Louie looked forward to running the combine every fall for his son-in-law, Harvey, even doing some last year at the age of 89. Louie was a member of the Britt Christian Reformed Church. "Gramps," as he was affectionately called, found great joy in his grandchildren and great-grandchildren and was in turn cherished by them.

Louie is survived by one daughter, Mary Lou Johnson of Forest City; and three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, Dawn Bunnell and her husband, Jim, and sons, Mitchell and Trevor, of Kansas City, Mo., Jason Johnson of Ames and Kristi Wirtjes and her husband, Greg, of Forest City; and one sister, Annie Smidt, of Britt. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, son-in-law Harvey, five brothers and two sisters. Ewing Funeral Chapel.