Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Smith, LeClaire King, 1935 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ LeCLAIRE KING SMITH Suffolk, Dec. 31, Mrs. LeClaire King Smith, prominent young matron of this city, and wife of Otis S. Smith, Jr., former Mayor of Suffolk, died this morning at 4:30 at her home on Brewer Avenue, after a brief illness, of pneumonia. Mrs. Smith, who was a member of the firm of Ballard & Smith, was taken ill on Christmas day and grew rapidly worse until her death this morning. Her personal beauty and her charm of manner made for her a wide circle of friends and her entrance into the business life of the community a few years ago, widened her large number of friendship. Surviving are her husband, one son, Spottswood Smith; two sisters, Mrs. Emma Finch Moseley, and Miss Inez King; two nieces, Misses Anne and LeClaire Holton, and four nephews, Woodville, Robert, Jack and Kendall Holton. She was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Woodville A. King. She was a member of the Suffolk Christian Church and of the American Legion Auxiliary. LeClaire (KING; Mrs. Otis S. Jr.) SMITH, member of the firm of Ballard & Smith, d. 31 Dec 1936, at home, Suffolk, age 43, interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block C, Lot 98*), Suffolk, "The Smithfield (VA) Times," Jan. 2, 1936 *Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_s.txt Her parents are buried in the same lot. Cedar Hill list for KING: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_j.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by William J. DelMonte (JazzyBill@aol.com) & Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/s530l10o.txt