Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Willie August 26, 1972 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Pat Currigan currigan1932@comcast.net May 14, 2020, 7:55 am Lake Odessa Wave-Thurs. Aug. 31, 1972 Willie Smith, 91 Dies at Hastings Willie Smith, 91, retired farmer, passed away at Pennock Hospital, Hastings, Saturday evening following a short illness. He had been hospitalized since August 18. He was born April 30, 1881 at Sparta, son of Jonathan and Josephine (Andrus) Smith and had lived in the lake Odessa area since a small child. Mr. Smith married Eva J. Fox of Woodland in 1902 and she passed away in January of 1922. For many years he had resided with his daughter, Letha, at McLenithan's Lansing, Jordan lake. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Clifton (Agatha) Sawdy and Mrs. Norman (Vonda) McClellan of Woodland, and Mrs. Vern (Letha) Plant of Lake Odessa; ten grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren, also two step great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held on Tuesday at 1:30 at Pickens Funeral Chapel, with burial in lakeside cemetery. Rev. Marvin Zimmerman officiated. Additional Comments: Lakeside Cem.-#8-1027 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/smith36647nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb