Harry Smith
1888-July 6, 1929
Niles Daily Star, Monday, July 8, 1929, page 1, col. 6, microfilm Niles District Library
HARRY SMITH STRICKEN AFTER SHORT ILLNESS
Niles Painter Dies Saturday; Funeral Held This Afternoon from Home
Harry Smith, 41, well known Niles decorator and painter, died quite suddenly at 12:45 on Saturday afternoon in Pawating hospital where he had been a patient for a few days. Although Mr. Smith had been a sufferer from heart disease for some time his condition had not been considered alarming until last week and he had been at his work until last Monday.
The funeral services were held this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home in Forest Acres, about two miles north of Niles. The Rev. O.P. Miles, pastor of the First Baptist church officiated. Burial was made in Silver Brook cemetery.
Mr. Smith was born in Champaign, Ill., in 1888, and had spent most of is lie there and in Chicago, until he came to Niles seven years ago to enter the employ of J.A. Contois by whom he had since been employed. Fellow workers of Mr. Smith served as pallbearers. Mr. Smith is survived by a widow, Mrs. Lucinda Smith, by three daughters, Mrs. Lucille Smith Apple, wife of Alfred Apple, Miss Frances and Miss Florence Smith, all of Niles, by two brothers, Ora Smith, Champaign, Ill., and Louis Smith, of Berrien Springs, and one sister, Mrs. Catherine Gilmore of Champaign.
The deceased was a member of the Painters and Decorators Union of America, having been affiliated with the South Bend branch of that union.
Among those from out of the city who attended the funeral services today were Ora Smith and Mr. and Mrs. George Gilmore and their son, George, Jr., and Louis Smith of Berrien Springs.