OBIT: Laura Belle (JOHNS) SMEARMAN, 1948, Salisbury, Somerset County, PA

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LAURA BELLE SMEARMAN

  Mrs. Laura Belle Smearman died at her home in Salisbury on Thursday evening, 
Nov. 18, of a complication of diseases.  She had been ill for about two weeks.  
Her husband, Henry Smearman, died in December 1918.
  She was born in Salisbury on October 8, 1874, a daughter of Ormada (Welfley) 
and Reuben Scott Johns.  She spent her life there and was a lifelong member of 
St. John's Lutheran Church.  She was 74 years and 24 days old at her passing.
  She is survived by one son, Earl Smearman, Detroit, Mich.; four brothers - 
Albert E. Johns and Walter S. Johns, Salisbury; William Harvey Johns, Cleveland, 
O., and Arthur W. Johns, Denver, Colo., and two sisters - Mrs. Arminta Lenhart, 
Youngstown, O., and Mrs. Myrtle May Alden, Cleveland, O.
  Funeral services were conducted in the Thomas Funeral Chapel at 2 p.m., 
Sunday.  Her pastor, the Rev. George E. Bowersox Jr., officiated.  Interment was 
made in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in charge of Mortician Stanley M. Thomas.

Meyersdale Republican, November 25, 1948