OBIT: Celia Amelia (BUTLER) SMITH, 1929, near East Freedom, Blair County, PA

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MRS. CELIA AMELIA BUTLER SMITH
 
Died at her home near East Freedom Sunday night at 10.35 o'clock of 
complications following an illness of about four years, although she was 
confined to her bed less than a week. She was the daughter of Alex, deceased, 
and Jane Butler, and was born fifty-one years ago in Freedom township where she 
spent her entire life. She was unite din marriage to George Smith of East 
Freedom who died about thirteen years ago and to this union ten children were 
born all of whom are living. She was again united in marriage to Irvin Smith of 
Freedom township. She is survived by her husband, her mother of East Freedom, 
and ten children:  Arvilla, Marie, Irvin, and Sherman, at home; Eldon, Brady, 
Millard, Russel, Mrs. Lilly Bowser, and Mrs. Ethel Teeters, all of East 
Freedom, also two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Dell of Juniata and Mrs. Bessie Dively 
of Carlem. She was a member of the Lutheran church at Newry.
 
The funeral cortege will leave the home west of East Freedom Wednesday 
afternoon at 1.30 o'clock and proceed to the Newry Lutheran church, where 
services will be conducted. Interment will be made in the Lutheran cemetery at 
Newry.

Altoona Mirror, Monday, 1 April 1929