Jeremy Smith
Born: July 20, 1978 in Newton, Jasper Co., Iowa
Died: March 23, 1990 in Indianola, Warren Co., Iowa
Buried: Lot 325
Lot Owner: Brian Smith, purchased in 1990
Parents: Brian and Susan Smith
Father: Larry Youngkin
Jeremy Smith
INDIANOLA - Funeral services for Jeremy Youngkin Smith, 11, of 1200 North East, Indianola, a former resident of Newton, will be held at 7 p.m. today, March 26, at the First United Methodist Church in Indianola.
The Rev. Gary Nims, associate pastor of the church, will conduct services.
Burial will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday at Sugar Grove Cemetery, west of Newton.
Visitation with the family was held Sunday at Wallace-Pence Funeral Home in Newton.
Friends may call at the Indianola church from 7 p.m. today until time of services.
Memorials in his name, to be used for the purchase of books for the Indianola Public Library, may be left at the funeral home.
He died Friday evening at his home following complications following a bone marrow transplant.
Survivors are his parents, Brian and Sue Smith of Indianola; and Larry Youngkin of Cedar Rapids; a brother, Aaron Bryon Smith of Indianola; his grandparents, RV and Freda Smith, Bob and Ruth Youngkin and John and Maxine Smith, all of Newton; and his great grandparents, Edna Smith of Arkansas and John and Ethel Grimes of Arkansas.
He was preceded in death by his geat-grandfather, Thurman Bryon Smith.
The youngster was a fourth grade student at Emerson Elementary School in Indianola.
He was born July 19, 1978 in Newton, resided there until moving to Lacona at the age of eight and later to Indianola. ~ Newton Daily News, March 26, 1990.