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Cemetery:           Brookside Cemetery
Name:               Franklyn W. Smith

Date Of Photograph: May 29, 2012
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Franklyn W. Smith
1915 - 2001





OBITUARY
Franklyn Webster Smith: March 22, 1915- April 5, 2001

Franklyn Webster Smith, 86, of Jackson and formerly of Charlevoix, died April 5,
2001 at Jackson Medical Care Facility in Jackson.

A funeral service was given April 8 at the Winchester Funeral Home in
Charlevoix. The Rev. Michael Mitchell of the Assembly of God Church officiated.
Burial took place in Brookside Cemetery.

Frank was born on March 22, 1915, in Jackson, the son of Otto and Blanche
(Melhorn) Smith. The family moved to Charlevoix, where he spent his childhood
and attended school and worked in his father's grocery store. Frank enjoyed
speed skating and won the 1930s Northern Michigan Speed Skating Championship.

In 1936, he married Velma Miller. Over the years, Frank sold real estate, owned
his own lumber mill, ran a produce stand and sold fish.

He was also a veteran serving in the Civil Conservation Corps in California.

On Feb. 1, 1975, he married Patsy Bennett in Port Charlotte. Fla. They
eventually moved to Eckerman, where they owned and operated a tavern.

Survivors include his wife. Patsy of Springport; six children, Delores June
Kilpatrick of Jackson, Donna (Frank) Rathjens of Charlevoix, Gary (Gail) Smith
of Charlevoix, Stanley (Asondra) Smith of Romulus, Maryann "Suzie" (Robert) Wise
of Charlevoix and Steven Smith of Charlevoix, three step-children, Sheri Dawn
(John. Sr.) Graffisus of Easton, Penn., Hope Denise Nau of Jackson and Timothy
Brian Nau of Jackson; 16 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren, seven
great-great-grandchildren, one sister. Dorothy Richards of Arcadia. Fla.

He was preceded in death by one son. Dale.


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