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The American Press - Page 1 - Lake Charles, LA
Date: Friday, 12 July 1963
Obituary: Fred Taylor Smith
 
SON OF FORMER EDITOR HERE DIES THURSDAY
Fred Taylor Smith, Sr., 48, son of a former editor and publisher of the 
Lake Charles American Press, died at 6:15 p.m. Thursday in an Alexandria 
hospital.
 
Funeral services are to be held Saturday at the Episcopal Church of the 
Good Shepherd, Rev. Harold R. Bott, rector of St. Michael and All Angels 
Episcopal Church, will officiate. Time has not been announced.
 
Burial will be in Orange Grove Cemetery under direction of Hixson funeral home.
 
A resident of 1722 Enterprise Boulevard, Mr. Smith had been in the real 
estate business in Lake Charles and  lived here all his life. He was a 
Mason, Shriner and member of the American Legion He was a veteran of World War II.
 
Mr. Smith was the son of the late Frank A. Smith.
 
Survivors are his wife, the former Mary Ellen Gayle of Lake Charles; one 
son, Fred Taylor Smith, Jr. of Lake Charles; one daughter, Mrs. John B. 
Armstrong, Jr. of Sumter, S.C. and two grandchildren.