Cass County IL Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Dora
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Dora Smith Obituary
The Republican Gazette
Virginia, Cass Co, IL
Friday, July 13, 1923

Miss Dora Smith died at 3 o'clock Thursday morning at the family 
home in this city after eight weeks confinement from anaemia 
(sic).  Miss Smith's death was not unexpected, as she had been 
in an extremely critical condition for two weeks.  Mis Smith had 
conducted a millinery store on the west side of the square for 
the last twenty-five years.

Miss Smith was born in the state of Kansas, moving to Virginia 
with her parents when only three years old.  She attended the 
public schools of the city and was a member of the Presbyterian 
church.  Her father, one sister, Mrs. Laura L. Leonard and one 
brother, William, preceded her in death.

Miss Smith is survived by the mother, Mrs. Ellen Smith; two 
sisters, Mrs. Thomas Chittick, Springfield, and Mrs. Frank 
Brown, Roanoke, Ill. and five brothers, George W., Summerville, 
N.J., Benjamin, Tallula, Ill., and Arthur, Earl and Joseph Smith 
all of this city.  Every member of the immediate family was at 
the bedside when the end came.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon 
at the Presbyterian church, followed by interment in the Walnut 
Ridge cemetery.  The services will be conducted by the 
Rev. Max B. Wiles.

Mis Smith attracted no little favorable comment by her marked 
business ability.  Her close confinement to her place of 
business is believed to have weakened her condition.  One of 
her greatest assets was her pleasing personality.


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