Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Smith, George Morgan 1934
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Tuesday, January 2, 1934


George Morgan Smith, 54, brother of K. R. Smith of Ionia, died in Indianapolis, 
Indiana, his home, about 7 o’clock New Year’s night a few hours after he had 
suffered a stroke of apoplexy.  Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock services will 
be held from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. K. R. Smith, 229 East Washington 
street.  Interment will be in the Highland park cemetery.

Born in Ionia in the home where his funeral rites will be conducted, Mr. Smith 
was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kimball R. Smith, Sr.  He attended the Ionia 
schools and resided here until about 20 years ago when he went to Indianapolis 
where he has been employed by the Niagara Wall Paper company, of Niagara Falls, 
N.Y.

Surviving him are his wife, Sara and two brothers, K. R. Smith, of Ionia and 
Delos G. Smith, of Washington.

Mr. and Mrs. K. R. Smith were notified about four o’clock Monday afternoon that 
his brother had bene stricken and left Ionia for Indianapolis where they did 
not arrive until 2 o’clock Tuesday morning, several hours after their brother’s 
death.

Subsequent Publication:  Friday, January 5, 1934

Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at two o’clock for G. 
Morgan Smith, of Indianapolis, in the home of his birth, now the residence of 
his brother, K. R. Smith and Mrs. Smith, 229 East Washington street.  The 
services were in charge of Rev. Fr. Edwin G. White, pastor of the St. Johns 
Episcopal church and among those who attended were many friends of the days of 
Mr. Smith’s boyhood and young manhood which were spent in Ionia.

Bearers were Henry Welch, John Welch, Harold Bradley, of Detroit, Lawrence W. 
Smith, of Grand Rapids, Dr. V. H. Kitson and Charles Cochrane.

Among those who were here from away to attend were Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Smith, 
of Grand Rapids; Glenn Smith, of Greenville; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Steinborn, of 
Port Huron; Mr. and Mrs. Packard White, of Flint; William Duffy, Gordon Campau, 
Samuel Douma, George Douma, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. W. Y. 
Serrin and Mrs. L. G. Holbrook, of Grand Rapids; Raymond Barnes and Austin 
Barnes, of Detroit, and Harold S. Bradley, of Detroit.

Services which were largely attended business friends in that and other cities, 
held in Indianapolis on Wednesday and the body brought to Ionia Wednesday night 
for the final rites here.  Burial was at Highland park cemetery.

Mr. Smith was stricken with paralysis while driving his automobile in heavy 
traffic in Indianapolis, but he managed to put on his brake, throw out the 
transmission, and partially open the door of his car before he lost 
consciousness.  In a passing automobile were some friends, who recognized him 
and returned to the stalled car where they found him helpless and unconscious, 
collapsed in his seat.  Mr. Smith regained consciousness momentarily upon being 
taken to his home but almost at once relapsed into a coma from which he never 
recovered, his death following in a few hours.


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