Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Charles J. 1946
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Belding Banner-News, 15 Aug 1946

Head Of Local Industry Died Here Saturday

Long Illness Cuts Career And Plans Of And Aggressive Citizen

Death, on Saturday closed the life career of Charles J. Smith, aged 52, and
owner and manager of the Smith Paint and Enamel Company of this city.  Cause of
death was given as cancer, from which Mr. Smith had suffered for a number of
months although his health condition for several years had not been of the best.

Mr. Smith was born at Tecumseh on August 13, 1893.  He had been in the employ of
a paint manufacturing concern for a number of years and in 1937 came to this
city from Palo, where he had been residing and took over the plant and property
of the former E. J. Knapp Paint Company, which he proposed to develop and expand
into a major industry in this city.  Economic conditions existing at the time
and for some years thereafter, prevented the carrying out of the plans and
finally ill help definitely put a stop to not only the building up of his
business but several other projects which he had in mind, one of which was the
eventually establishing of a strong radio station in this city.

Mr. Smith was an ardent member of the Republican party, a strong contender for
high all-American ideals and at one time unsuccessfully sought the nomination as
candidate for state treasurer on the America First party ticket.

Surviving are the widow, the former Mrs. Myrtle Cox whom he married in 1932;
three daughters, Mrs. Maurice McKenna of Lansing, Miss Betty Smith of Seattle,
Wash., and Miss Thalia Cox of this city; a son, Robert Smith of Marshall, one
grandson and one sister.

Funeral services under the direction of the Fitzjohn Funeral Home, were held at
the Church of God, with which Mr. Smith affiliated some time ago, on Monday
afternoon at 2 o’clock, with Rev. Wilbur Kirby, pastor of the church,
officiating and burial was made in Balcom cemetery.  Pallbearers were Bert J.
Storey, Edwin Bradshaw, Paul Malone, Herbert Armbrustmacher, John Westrick and
Fred Wortman.


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