Byron Dean SMEBY

SMEBY, SORENSEN, DAVIS, PEDERSON, JURASEK

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/16/2010 at 15:43:35

ROCKWELL - Byron Dean Smeby, 62, of Rockwell, died Friday (Nov. 8, 2002) after a long, courageous battle with cancer, surrounded by his family at the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday (Nov. 12, 2002) at the United Methodist Church in Rockwell with the Rev. Bruce Wittern officiating. Burial will be at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Brush Point Cemetery, rural Hanlontown. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St., Clear Lake, and will continue one hour prior to the services at the church Tuesday. Those wishing to express their sympathy may direct a memorial to the Byron Smeby Memorial Fund.

Byron Dean Smeby was born on June 25, 1940, on the Smeby family farm north of Hanlontown. He was the son of John O. and Olga (Sorensen) Smeby. He attended rural country schools near Hanlontown, graduating from Hanlontown High School in 1959. He was united in marriage to Linda Davis on June 9, 1963, at the United Methodist Church in Clear Lake, and was blessed with three loving sons. Byron loved farming all his life. He began farming in 1968 until the present, in the Klemme and Rockwell area. He especially enjoyed his Black Angus cow-calf herd and having John Deere equipment for his farming operations. His love of the land and farming has been handed down to his sons, who will continue in their father's legacy for many generations to come. Byron loved the land and farming, but his great love and enjoyment was his family and grandchildren. He was a former member of the Immanuel Reformed United Church of Christ in Klemme, and presently is a member of the United Methodist Church in Swaledale.

Left to cherish his memory is his wife, Linda Smeby, of Rockwell; three sons, Terry Smeby and his wife, Janie, and their boys, Jordan and Collin of Mason City, Todd Smeby and his wife, Tracy, and their girls, Ashley and Brielle, of Klemme, and Troy Smeby of Rockwell and Katie Pederson of Swaledale; four brothers, Jr. Smeby and his wife, Ruth, of Mason City, Royden Smeby and his wife, Verna, of Joice, Wally Smeby of Mason City, and Glenn Smeby and his wife, Janet, of Mason City; a sister, Viola Jurasek and her husband, Jerry, of Mason City; his father-in-law, Oscar Davis, of Clear Lake; six aunts and uncles; 21 nieces and nephews; and other relatives and many friends. He was preceded in death by his parents; his mother, Olga in 1967, and his father, John in 1982; a sister-in-law, Janice Smeby in 1998, and one niece and one nephew. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel.

Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa
November 10, 2002