Ada E. Smith
Dec. 14, 1862-Jan. 28, 1941
Niles Daily Star, Friday, January 31, 1941, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library
SERVICE SATURDAY FOR MRS. ADA SMITH
Mrs. Ada E. Smith, who died Tuesday in St. Louis, will be buried in Silverbrook Saturday afternoon after services in the Price and Kiger chapel at 3:30. The Rev. G.W. Simon will officiate.
Mrs. Smith was a former resident of Niles, having lived here many years prior to the death of her husband, Calvin Smith, in 1937. She had made her home with two daughters in St. Louis since his death.
She was born in Assyria, Mich., Dec. 14 1862. Surviving are her daughters, Mrs. Douglas Gunn and Mrs. Robert Peters, and two grandchildren, Jay and Jack Peters, all of St. Louis; also two sisters, Mrs. John Kaltz and Mrs. Peter Hargia, both of Kalamazoo.
She was a member of the Presbyterian church, and the Dowagiac unit of Royal Neighbors of America.
Friends are asked to call tonight at the Price and Kiger funeral home.
Niles Daily Star, Saturday, February 1, 1941, page 2, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library
Service Conducted for Mrs. Ada Smith
Services were conducted at 3:30 this afternoon in the Price and Kiger chapel for Mrs. Ada Smith, former Niles resident. Mrs. Smith died in St. Louis, Mo., where she had been living with her daughters, since the death of her husband, Calvin Smith, in 1937.
The Rev. G.W. Simon, officiating. Pall bearers were Carl Shouder, Fred Shouder, Henry Passig, Howard Passig, Elmer Weltzien and Robert Schrumpf.